Embed SlideShare Presentations in WordPress: Native Support Since 3.5 (No Plugin Needed)

If you've presented to an audience, you know SlideShare—a go-to platform for sharing presentation slides. Speakers often embed these on their blogs for easy viewing. While SlideShare's embed code works, adding it to WordPress oEmbed lets you paste a URL for automatic embedding, just like YouTube videos.

Key Update: WordPress 3.5+ includes built-in SlideShare support. Skip custom code entirely.

For reference or older sites, add this snippet to your theme's functions.php or a site plugin:

function add_oembed_slideshare() {
    wp_oembed_add_provider( 'https://www.slideshare.net/*', 'https://api.embed.ly/v1/api/oembed' );
}
add_action( 'init', 'add_oembed_slideshare' );

Thanks to @tammyhart for sharing this reliable snippet.

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