About a year and half ago I wrote about a bug that emerged in the WordPress block editor. You used to be able to paste a Flickr embed code into an empty block, and the image would appear. The bug broke this.
Someone at WordPress noticed my complaint and wrote up this detailed bug report in the WordPress GitHub (account required). It’s gotten a little attention in the intervening months, with its most recent update in April. But the bug persists.
An aside: As a fellow who makes his living in the software industry, I’m not at all surprised that WordPress hasn’t fixed this bug. I can’t imagine that this one ranks high on the to-fix list, as Flickr embeds are probably not a critical function. You can fix only so many bugs. Reading the report, there’s broad agreement that it is a bug, and some work has been done to get at its root cause.
The workaround I initially found is to create an HTML block, paste the Flickr embed code into it, delete the <script> tag from it, and convert it to a regular block. It’s a lot of steps for a simple result, but it works.
But recently I stumbled upon an even easier workaround. Create an Image block and press Ctrl-V to paste the Flickr embed code. Bam, the image appears. This method strips the <script> tag for you! It’s so much easier.
