Alter embed URL letter case to fix your broken MS-Office-file embeds in WordPress

Home > e-infrastructure, Glitches&Errors, service-is-testing-troubleshooting-debugging > Alter embed URL letter case to fix your broken MS-Office-file embeds in WordPress

2015/04/05 plagwitz Leave a comment Go to comments

Problem: I just notice that a lot of my WordPress OneDrive embeds are broken (not sure since when).
Root cause:
1. Upon comparing the embed URLS in WordPress posts with what embed URLS sharing with OneDrive results in, it appears that the letter case in the embed URLs has been changed to all uppercase, pointing to resources that do not exist (doh!).
2. Not sure who is to blame for altering the case:
  1. WordPress,
  2. OneDrive (note there is also the transition from “skydrive” to “onedrive”),
  3. Windows Live Writer? The latter hardly, since I did not touch these posts.
Solution:
1. Given that, while “cid=” seems all uppercase, “resid=” all lowercase, but “authkey=” is mixed case , there is not easy case change operation you could do locally to restore the original try.
2. So you have to find the original files you embedded (not trivial from the URL which does not contain even a hint of the file name or extension) and re-embed it through sharing with OneDrive.

Enter your comment here...

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Email (required) (Address never made public)

Name (required)

Website

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change )

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s

Thomas' Work Space