Title: Using iframe in oEmbed
Last modified: October 15, 2020

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# Using iframe in oEmbed

 *  Resolved [Bondoc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bondoc/)
 * (@bondoc)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-iframe-in-oembed/)
 * In the oEmbed area in ‘settings’ I currently have the ‘Use iframe’ option activated
   to show products in an iframe. What are the advantages/disadvantages of having
   this turned on or off, if any? The info says that turning this feature off will
   mean products will be directly rendered but I don’t really understand that this
   means and whether or not I should do it. Sorry to be so dumb!
 * Another thing – is there a way to reduce the font size for the description text
   in Amazon products when displaying a product using the Amazon url option? At 
   the moment the description displays in quite a large text size.
 * Thanks.

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 *  Plugin Author [miunosoft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miunosoft/)
 * (@miunosoft)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-iframe-in-oembed/#post-13540983)
 * Hi,
 * Good question. Using iframe might be a bit friendly for site visitors. With iframe,
   the contents will be updated asynchronously, so the viewer does not have to wait
   until all the contents are loaded. On contrary, With the method not using iframe,
   when not cached, while fetching data from an external Amazon server and parsing
   them to render, the visitor must wait until it all loads. But once the data are
   cached, it shuoldn’t be much of a problem since caches will be updated in the
   background. If you have a good caching plugin apart from the Amazon Auto Links
   caching mechanism and don’t like using iframe, simply uncheck the option.
 * As for the second question, it involves tweaking CSS rules. Can you post your
   live site so that I can check and suggest some CSS customization?
 *  Thread Starter [Bondoc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bondoc/)
 * (@bondoc)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-iframe-in-oembed/#post-13542039)
 * Hi – thanks for your swift response, as always. I’ll stick with the iframe option.
   Regarding the other matter my site is not live yet, in that I’ve blocked crawling
   and have an ‘under construction’ home page. I’m using the OceanWP theme. I’ll
   leave things as they are rather than trying to tweak CSS etc, unless it just 
   involved pasting a bit of code into the theme’s Custom CSS/JS area in ‘Customise’.
   Thanks again.
 *  Plugin Author [miunosoft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miunosoft/)
 * (@miunosoft)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-iframe-in-oembed/#post-13545259)
 * Okay, feel free to post a new topic if you need help when customizing CSS rules.
 *  Thread Starter [Bondoc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bondoc/)
 * (@bondoc)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-iframe-in-oembed/#post-13545720)
 * Thank you

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 * Last activity: [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-iframe-in-oembed/#post-13545720)
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