Automattic / Automattic/jetpack

Newsletter: improve rendering of embed blocks

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[Feature] Subscriptions Enhancement
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Description

Embeds from Twitter, TikTok, etc are currently rendered as text-only:

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We'd like to be able to render something more visual in emails;

Exploration using images with our mShots API, which already has good dedicated support for Twitter embeds:

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Slack convo p1726144959645139-slack-C052XEUUBL4

Came up with Team 51 customer p9MPsk-5nT-p2

Exploration in D162345-code

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Research direction

Start with the mShots API exploration and D162345-code referenced in the issue, then locate the current newsletter embed rendering. Done means Twitter, TikTok, and similar embeds render as visual content in emails rather than text-only; no file or test is named.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
php, wordpress
Domain
content, frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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