DailyMotion Users Check Your Old Embeds!

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    dawntreader72014 · Member ·

    If you have posts from any time before January 2015 where you embedded DailyMotion videos, you may want to check those posts using a recent version of Google Chrome running on PC.

    There was a bug which was fixed going forward, but which still afflicts some older posts. Those posts need to be manually edited to fix the bug.

    The symptoms of the bug are that when someone views the post, they only see a large white space where the embedded DailyMotion video is supposed to be.

    The fix is to manually edit the post. I had 7 posts pre-January 2015 which suffered from this bug. In each case, the fix was to change the video embed code from http to a shortcode.

    EXAMPLE:

    Original embed code triggering bug:

    Fixed by substituting this shortcode:

    [dailymotion id=x260fp0]

    The technical explanation is that this bug occurred when WordPress.com changed from http to https. Some browsers don’t like it when an https page calls content from an http page. They will block that content, so you get the white space instead of the video.

    Again, this bug was fixed going forward, but was not fixed retroactively, so you might have some old posts which are affected and need to be manually edited as above. Happy hunting!

    Note: Because I was running Linux Mint 9 and Firefox 20, I didn’t notice this bug, but a user running Windows and Google Chrome browser complained that she saw only white space where the DailyMotion videos were supposed to be. On investigation, it turned out to be this bug.

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    dawntreader72014 · Member ·

    Update to above

    There are two main methods for embedding a DailyMotion video, http or shortcode:

    [dailymotion id=x260fp0]

    I find they yield different visual results. Posting the http yields a full width version, while posting the shortcode yields a much narrower version.

    To fix an old post which suffers from the DailyMotion white space bug, you can simply go into edit, hit Update, and that will fix it. In updating the post, the WordPress software will reinterpret the existing code, this time without the bug.

    So to fix those old posts, it looks like you don’t even need to change the code, just go into edit and hit Update.

  • supernovia · Staff ·

    Thanks @dawntreader72014, I’ll pass this along.

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