This blog has been re-posted and edited with permission from Dries Buytaert's blog.

I'm excited to share that when Drupal 8.8 drops in December, Drupal's WYSIWYG editor will allow media embedding.

You may wonder: Why is that worth announcing on your blog? It's just one new button in my WYSIWYG editor.

It's a big deal because Drupal's media management has been going through a decade-long transformation. The addition of WYSIWYG integration completes the final milestone. You can read more about it on Wim's blog post.

Drupal 8.8 should ship with complete media management, which is fantastic news for site builders and content authors who have long wanted a simpler way to embed media in Drupal.

Congratulations to the Media Initiative team for this significant achievement!

Comments

Joachim Namyslo’s picture

What's about Image Styles, when it comes to WYSIWYG. We have devices like Ipads Mobile phones and tablets where every image must have different aspect ratios when it gets embedded by using media embed.  In addition to that, we have normal image styles and responsive image styles, too. It is great that we can embed images like a charm now in core. But what if we make sure, that images look great on every device with as little effort as possible right in core?

a.dmitriiev’s picture

As this issue is in https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3074608, you can configure different displays for media types and use formatters with responsive image styles or any other formatters, like lazyload and so on. So media is embedded as a rendered entity and it is up to you how you want it to be displayed.