Embedded videos in text widget no longer display on my site.

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  truthseekerblogger2015 · Member · Nov 20, 2017 at 9:12 pm

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  Hi,

  Exactly what the topic says. Embedded videos in text widget no longer display on my site. I’ve been embedding videos in the widget area for a year and now they don’t work.

  This occurred today. I have no clue why it’s not working.

  I noticed this issue on other wordpress blogs that have embedded videos in their text widgets.

  Is this a wordpress issue or a YouTube issue?

  Thanks.

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

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  robertghetau · Staff · Nov 20, 2017 at 9:15 pm

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  Hey,

  I’ve replied back here: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/embedded-videos-in-text-widget-no-longer-display-on-my-site?replies=2#post-3047674

  I hope it helped.

  Cheers,
  Robert

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  truthseekerblogger2015 · Member · Nov 20, 2017 at 9:27 pm

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  The video widget completely breaks the video dimensions. It looks horrible.

  Why is the text widget broken? That’s a better question.

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  truthseekerblogger2015 · Member · Nov 20, 2017 at 9:54 pm

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  Oh I see, WordPress broke the text widget in WordPress 4.8 in order to force people to use their new broken video widget. The dimensions are completely screwed up and I have no way of modifying the player size.

  Good work. Give yourselves high fives at the next meeting.

  Add YouTube Videos to the new WordPress Video Widget

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  robertghetau · Staff · Nov 20, 2017 at 10:22 pm

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  Let’s keep this going only on one topic so we can keep track of the answers.

  Now, I’ve tried adding a video via the Add media button within a Text Widget but it doesn’t seem to render for some reason.

  I’ll tag the topic with modlook in order to see if there’s something we both missed.

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  supernovia · Staff · Nov 21, 2017 at 3:51 am

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  Hi @robertghetau, can you let us know what code you posted?

  @truthseekerblogger2015 your widgets are looking fine right now. If you’ll let me know what code you used before, we’ll take a look.

  Generally though you should just be able to paste a URL to a video.

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  robertghetau · Staff · Nov 21, 2017 at 8:15 am

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  Hey @supernovia,

  I’ve added the YouTube URL and then try the embed code, but the video wasn’t rendering at the time at all. Only the Video Widget worked ok (excepting the resizing part, which is still a problem I believe)

  Today, however, it seems to be working ok with and without the embed part. Could’ve been a temporary thing?

  Cheers,
  Robert

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  robertghetau · Staff · Nov 21, 2017 at 9:38 am

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  Hi again guys,

  I’ve noticed this topic, where Darnel confirmed the bug and things are going to be fixed for the Video Widget. Awesome!

  Enjoy the day,
  Robert

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  supernovia · Staff · Nov 21, 2017 at 3:58 pm

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  Must have been a bug someone else caught before I could duplicate it here :) Cheers, all