You can see what kinds of properties you can see for media - I fed the URL of a video into embed.ly as that document suggested, but none of the fields returned gave me a video length... You may want to try with one of the images posted to your sub and see what properties you get. Maybe there's something else in the metadata you can search for that is common across the short videos. Source: 7 months ago

Some people report success with getting approved by https://embed.ly/, others report that service never responded to them. Source: about 1 year ago

Embed.ly — Provides APIs for embedding media in a webpage, responsive image scaling, extracting elements from a webpage. Free for up to 5,000 URLs/month at 15 requests/second. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

Use https://embed.ly to extract the MEDIA_AUTHoR or MEDIA_AUTHOR_URL from the link and add it to either of the 2 rules below. Source: over 1 year ago

If you pull up that script, it references "cdn.embedly.com", a third-party content delivery network. See their home page at https://embed.ly/. Source: about 2 years ago

I also like WP Rocket's database cleaning tool: https://wp-rocket.me/. Source: about 1 year ago

This will have a serious impact based on that kind of database. A good caching plug-in like WP Rocket should help with the overheads and speed things up. If you have server side caching like memcached or lighspeed make sure you are utilising it. Source: about 1 year ago

Purchase a license from the WP Rocket website (https://wp-rocket.me/). Source: about 1 year ago

Sounds like your colleague bought a nulled/"GPL free" copy of WP Rocket - probably not purchased from https://wp-rocket.me/. Source: over 1 year ago

One of the most beloved WordPress caching plugins is WP Rocket. They’ve managed to take something complex and make it extremely easy, yet still powerful and configurable. They have also made it easy to integrate with a CDN in just a few clicks. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago