adding flickr video – not working

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    pberra · Member ·

    Hello, I’m new at WordPress, and so far I like what I see. I want to add a movie through my flickr site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/77minuets/3774026166/

    I saw the tutorials as to how to go about it, however when I try doing it, I don’t get the same results. I start by going to the “Add Video” button at the top menu of the post, then I select, ” From URL” tab and then insert the link (copy/paste), but it doesn’t appear in my post, after selecting “Insert into Post”. Is there something more I should be doing? What am I doing wrong?

    Thank you
    Peter

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    Is this the blog you are talking about http://pberra.wordpress.com/ ? If so, please always provide a link to the blog when asking a question in the forums since we typically have to look at the blog in order to help.

    See this support document on how to insert flickr videos into your blog: http://support.wordpress.com/videos/flickr-video/ .

    One note I’ll add is to actually put the code into the HTML tab. That works far more consistently than putting it into the visual editor.

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    pberra · Member ·

    Sorry I didn’t provide the link to my blog site. Yes it is http://pberra.wordpress.com. I did follow the instructions from the video, however it still shows up as a blank. I tried several ways of pasting the code. The first was simply copy and paste the link as seen here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/77minuets/3774026166/ didn’t work, then I did the same thing by adding: flickr video=http://www.flickr.com/photos/77minuets/3774026166/ (flckr video @ the start of the address ) and that didn’t work either.

    I’ll try the html and see what comes of it.

    Thank you for your time.

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    raincoaster · Member ·

    You do need to follow those specific instructions. You need the square brackets, as outlined in the link tsp gave you. Read those instructions carefully.

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    pberra · Member ·

    Thank you! I added the code in the html and it worked like a charm, I pasted the address in the html as follows: [flickr video=http://www.flickr.com/photos/77minuets/3774026166/]

    Thanks again!
    Peter

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    pberra · Member ·

    you are right, I saw that after the [ ] brackets are essential. It’s all in the details. I’m starting to get the hang of it now.

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