How can I remove the embed option on a photo or photo gallery

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Permalink Reply by Kev on January 4, 2009 at 8:26am

It depends on a couple factors. For the most part the embed options are locked into whatever hosting service you are using. This is how they drive traffic to their site. There are photo/video/music hosts that do not have embed codes (Microsoft's popfly seems "safe" depending on what modules you use for example) and others that always will (Youtube, Photobucket).

The second factor is how you are putting them on your site. With many of the 2.0 tools you can "block" the embed button simply by making it "invisible" to the user. If you use iFrames to place the modules you can size the frame to anything you want, thus enabling you to cut off the embed button.

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Permalink Reply by Tom Tolkien on January 4, 2009 at 9:20am

sorry - I forgot to make clear it's a ning network

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Permalink Reply by Steve Hargadon on January 8, 2009 at 1:29pm

Hi, Tom. I don't have an easy answer for this. I think what you're getting at is that someone could get the embed code in a private network and then share a photo to say, Facebook, which someone else thought was going to stay private. Might be good to ask this over at http://education.ning.com/.

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Permalink Reply by Tom Tolkien on January 10, 2009 at 4:02am

Hi Steve - that's exactly the issue. We've since decided that only one school user (the network creator) should post phots, and then only ones appropriate to being public. Then any posted by other users are their responsiblity. However, it would still be nice to remove the embed code, so I'll post the problem in education.ning.com - thanks.

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Permalink Reply by Chuck Furlong on February 18, 2009 at 11:25am

I used this in CSS (Manage - Appearance - Advanced) to block the "Get Embed Code" and "Share" links...

/*--------------------------
Block "Get Embed Code" and "Share"
-------------------------*/

.xg_sprite-embed {
display: none;
}
.xg_sprite-share {
display: none;
}

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Permalink Reply by Steve Hargadon on February 18, 2009 at 12:17pm

Brilliant solution.

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Permalink Reply by Tom Tolkien on February 18, 2009 at 12:24pm

Hi - whereabouts do I paste this? - I'm having trouble getting it to work

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