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Hi Jack -- this is a feature, not a bug. iFrames present significant security risks and are thus disallowed on WP multisite installs by default. The stripping of iframes can be disabled, but I think it's a bad idea to enable that functionality.

Also: what are you trying to embed?

I think most embeddable content that you might use an iframe for should be able to be embedded without having to use iframes, like with a plugin/shortcode (e.g., google docs plugin, jetpack for multimedia, etc.). If you're trying to include something from an external site that gives you an "embed" code, post the embed code here (use the "pre" tag to wrap the code so it doesn't get mangled) and maybe we can figure out an alternative that doesn't rely on iframes.

Great. Thanks, Jack!

Instructions to embed a Google Doc form are listed here:
https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/google-docs-shortcode#embedding-a-form

Let me know if it isn't clear enough.

Jack - please give is a shot and let us know whether it works.

Scott -- can you please add this to our site documentation if it's not there already?

Ray -- did we already discuss packaging this as a plugin? If not, I think it's worth doing that; please let me know what you think.

Hi Ray & co.,

To clarify, this issue is only happening when trying to embed a Google Form. It is fine with all other Google docs. If you try to embed a Google Form, as I did, you will see this issue as well.

Cheers, Jack

Hi Jack,

How are you getting the form URL and how does your shortcode look like?

This example works for me:

[gdoc link="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDZLLXBEUWhVRGNIS28tYlVGa21PT0E6MQ"]

Hi Matt,

The plugin is already in the wp.org repo:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-docs-shortcode/

Hi Ray -- I'm confirming that this isn't working for forms. See this page. Screenshots of dashboard and published views attached. Live page here - http://cunyitconference.commons.gc.cuny.edu/submit-a-proposal/

Great - thanks, Ray.

André, any idea why Ray didn't receive an email notification?

I was removed as the assignee in comment:15 and then didn't receive subsequent email updates.

So I reassigned myself just now and am now receiving emails for this issue again.

Aha! Got it. thanks. André, I'll take you off of the watch list.

Awesome -- thanks, Ray! When the fix goes live, am I right to assume that everything should simply work without our having to change the embed code?

Hi Ray -- I'm still seeing the issue here -- http://cunyitconference.commons.gc.cuny.edu/submit-a-proposal/ . Any ideas?

And Jack, are you still experience an issue?

Thanks for the report, Matt.

I looked at your shortcode:
[gdoc link="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/embeddedform?formkey=dDZOTlhUbnBwSTdiOWtJS0c0by1EQ2c6MA"]

It should be:
[gdoc link="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDZOTlhUbnBwSTdiOWtJS0c0by1EQ2c6MA"]

Let me know if these instructions need amending:
https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/google-docs-shortcode#embedding-a-form

Thanks, Ray! This works beautifully for my form: http://justpublics365.commons.gc.cuny.edu/mediacamp-august/.

FYI: I used the following shortcode and it worked perfectly:
[gdoc link="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1OKLqWr998a7iXE8X_df0PWhR-3E7OhWeEwQhqINMObo/edit"]

Ray, that code didn't work for me. Jack, where/how did you find that link code on the form?

Matt, I grabbed the code from the browser so the form I was working on is located at:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1OKLqWr998a7iXE8X_df0PWhR-3E7OhWeEwQhqINMObo/edit.

I believe the "spreadsheet" code you are loading may be the data from the form instead of the form itself. Possible?

Okay, so there are two things that I don't understand here:

1. Ray, why is Jack's shortcode working when it doesn't seem to match the setup that you put together?

2. Why is my own attempt to match Jack's code - [gdoc link="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/dDZOTlhUbnBwSTdiOWtJS0c0by1EQ2c6MA"] - not working? I'm getting the form code from the public URL of the form, as Jack did - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?fromEmail=true&formkey=dDZOTlhUbnBwSTdiOWtJS0c0by1EQ2c6MA

Thanks for your help.

Aha -- I thought the shortcode was activated automatically, so I never enabled it. Everything is working now, and the directions are clear. Many thanks.