So last Thursday I came into the office with my team in a panic, as all of our H5P content on Canvas was broken. Just blank, white pages where there should have been rich, beautiful, interactive content for students. There had been a Canvas update overnight which was our first thought, but after testing and problem solving, I worked it out as actually a WordPress update which had changed the behaviour of content embedded externally. (We’re creating H5P content on a WordPress dev site, then embedding into Canvas. No it’s not ideal, but it’s also free.)
After doing a temp fix by reverting our WordPress to a previous version, I logged the issue on the wordpress.org forum for the plugin, where some colleagues at other institutions further pinned down the nature of the problem. Big shout out and thanks to @jstang and the H5P team who then picked up on the issue and released a fix a couple of days later. Good result.
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