Can somebody please help me with why youtube will not embed in my posts?

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  theboyscout1 · Member · Jun 27, 2013 at 11:26 pm

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  The youtube links I embedded in my post are not working. They show when I paste but when I update / preview, they disappear. Only for Youtube, Vimeo works fine.

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  amightywp · Member · Jun 28, 2013 at 11:09 pm

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  Hi there,

  The YouTube embeds can be very tricky and if you do not copy/paste out of YouTube correctly, our editor will not translate them correctly into the shortcode.

  You need to remember that they cannot have links attached to them (you cannot copy/paste them from another link), it has to be plain text. It’s also best if it’s in YouTube’s basic link structure like so:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m234k567i89

  If for some reason our editor still doesn’t pick it up, you can always enter the shortcode yourself by putting your link in like so:

  [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m234k567i89]

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  designsimply · Member · Jun 29, 2013 at 5:11 am

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  Thank you for reporting this!

  We researched the issue and found that YouTube had changed the format of their embed code, so we updated WordPress.com to work with the new formatting.

  Can you please try embedding a YouTube video again? An iframe embed code should get converted into a shortcode now, just like it used to.

  If you have any trouble, please reply back here and include the YouTube video link or iframe code you’re using.