Title: WP_oEmbed::_add_provider_early
Published: September 4, 2014
Last modified: May 20, 2026

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# WP_oEmbed::_add_provider_early( string $format, string $provider, bool $regex = false )

## In this article

 * [Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_oembed/_add_provider_early/?output_format=md#description)
    - [See also](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_oembed/_add_provider_early/?output_format=md#see-also)
 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_oembed/_add_provider_early/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_oembed/_add_provider_early/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_oembed/_add_provider_early/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_oembed/_add_provider_early/?output_format=md#changelog)

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Adds an oEmbed provider.

## 󠀁[Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_oembed/_add_provider_early/?output_format=md#description)󠁿

The provider is added just-in-time when [wp_oembed_add_provider()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_oembed_add_provider/)
is called before the [‘plugins_loaded’](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/plugins_loaded/)
hook.

The just-in-time addition is for the benefit of the [‘oembed_providers’](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/oembed_providers/)
filter.

### 󠀁[See also](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_oembed/_add_provider_early/?output_format=md#see-also)󠁿

 * [wp_oembed_add_provider()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_oembed_add_provider/)

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_oembed/_add_provider_early/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$format`stringrequired

Format of URL that this provider can handle. You can use asterisks as wildcards.

`$provider`stringrequired

The URL to the oEmbed provider..

`$regex`booloptional

Whether the $format parameter is in a regex format.

Default:`false`

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_oembed/_add_provider_early/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    public static function _add_provider_early( $format, $provider, $regex = false ) {
    	if ( empty( self::$early_providers['add'] ) ) {
    		self::$early_providers['add'] = array();
    	}

    	self::$early_providers['add'][ $format ] = array( $provider, $regex );
    }
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/class-wp-oembed.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.0/src/wp-includes/class-wp-oembed.php#L315)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/7.0/src/wp-includes/class-wp-oembed.php#L315-L321)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_oembed/_add_provider_early/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Used by | Description | 
| [wp_oembed_add_provider()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_oembed_add_provider/)`wp-includes/embed.php` |

Adds a URL format and oEmbed provider URL pair.

  |

## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_oembed/_add_provider_early/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [4.0.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/4.0.0/) | Introduced. |

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