oEmbed is a neat way to insert embeded content form the likes of YouTube and SoundCloud. All you have to do is to place a plain text link to the resource in a paragraph of its own and the content is embeded automagically. Unfortunately, as of 4.4 none of the code snippet services (Gist, Pastebin, jsFiddle etc.) are enabled as oEmbed providers in WordPress by default.

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