XF 2.1 Embed Gleam Giveaway Widget in Forums

[Mt.Drek]

We often host giveaways on our site using the Gleam Giveaway widget. Here's an example: https://gleam.io/o16fL/toms-hardware-system-starter-build-giveaway-with-msi

We would like to embed this widget into the forum. Gleam provides an embed code in HTML:

<a class="e-widget generic-loader" href="https://gleam.io/o16fL/toms-hardware-system-starter-build-giveaway-with-msi" rel="nofollow">Tom's Hardware System Starter Build Giveaway with MSI</a> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://widget.gleamjs.io/e.js" async="true"></script>

How do embed this widget into our forums? Do I add Gleam to the BB code media site? Would I just copy and paste the HTML embed code there into the embed template section?

 

[Paul B]

You should just be able to create a new widget of HTML type and paste the code in.

 

[Mt.Drek]

I'm not sure an HTML Widget would work. We want to embed the widget into a post, not as an item on the forum navigation.

 

[Feanor]

I would probably do this with custom BBCode, but keep in mind that other users would be able to put it into their posts.

 

[Mt.Drek]

I would probably do this with custom BBCode, but keep in mind that other users would be able to put it into their posts.

Thanks for the suggestion. How do you create custom bbcode?

 

[Mt.Drek]

Leaving this here in case anyone else has this issue. You can use the solution in this thread:

XF 2.0 - How to embed a google map

Searched the forum but I've not found a solution. It seems that there's a BBCode that support google map but if I paste a Map url or an Embed url in the media add, I always get the same error "The specified URL cannot be embedded as media." so I'm asking here if someone has ever embedded a Map...

xenforo.com

Just replace the URL for google maps with the url for your gleam widget.