Embedded Youtube video in blog post is not showing up when mailed to subscribers
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Hoping someone can help me. I have embedded a youtube video in a blog post. It looks fine on wordpress, but when it mails to a subscriber it doesn’t show up at all. They have to click back to my blog to see it. What am I doing wrong?
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You are not doing anything wrong. Firstly, we all have different email clients and we can set them up to either display or not display videos and images in email. Secondly, if your followers can read your full posts in emails and view the images and videos there then they do not click into your site so there is no page view stat created.
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Here is some more information re: stats.
Our stats are not real time stats and take time to update. There are frequent fluctuations that most do not notice because we aren’t watching the process. For details see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/ and note the views and viewers take hours to update.
Our stats are page view stats. And please do not assume that everyone who clicks a follow, like, share, reblog or comment link actually reads the post on your blog because odds are they may not.
Follow, like, share, reblog or comment clicks are not page views. In fact, follows, likes, shares, comments and reblogs are completely misleading when you are talking about page view stats.
Your followers and anyone with a WordPress.com/Gravatar account who is logged into WordPress.com can “follow” your blog, “like”, “share” and “reblog” your posts and “comment” in several locations such as the Reader, without ever clicking into your blog and creating a single page view stat. Subscribers control how frequently they receive your posts (instantly, daily, weekly) and can comment without clicking into the blog.
Logged in visitors using a mobile can read the full post without creating a page view stat. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpresscom-reader-show-full-text?replies=31#post-1373606
You can control the length of the entry sent out on your RSS feed here Dashboard > Settings > Reading. Choose the “summary” setting for your RSS feed rather than to “full text”. That will compel followers who are not using mobiles to click into the blog to read the full post which will create a page view stat.
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Great information! Thank you. I didn’t realize that if they read the posts it would not log in the stats. I didn’t find the place in the dashboard settings that allow me to display or not display video. Can you be specific about where that is? I really appreciate the speedy reply!
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I didn’t find the place in the dashboard settings that allow me to display or not display video. Can you be specific about where that is?
It is not in your blog dashboard. It is in the email client that you use.
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I use gmail for my email. I’m assuming that is what you are referring to and I’m not seeing that option in the settings. Any suggestions?
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I have my email client set not to display any images or videos because that is how malware and viruses are commonly spread. I do not use gmail. I have to have an account for Google webmasters but I do not use it so I cannot help. There must be support docs for gmail online https://support.google.com/mail/answer/145919?hl=en
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To be honest I’ve been here as long as TT and I don’t think media (pictures, embeds) have EVER shown in the RSS feeds.
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If they are not in the RSS feed for posts then how do images and videos get displayed in the Reader?
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If you reblog from the reader you’ll notice that those images and videos are never included in your reblog. You get a thumbnail which displays on your front post, but that’s it.
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This is not reblogged content. The media file is not showing up in the RSS feed. It is on the blog post but there is no link to it in the email a subscriber receives.
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We’re only discussing the reblogging function because it is drawn from the RSS feed. And in my experience (and I use it twice a day) it never contains media.
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Maybe WordPress has changed something about the images and video files in email and we aren’t aware of it. I tagged this thread for Staff to respond to this. Please subscribe to it so you are notified when they respond. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.
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Hi there!
It looks like there are a few things in play here. First, we don’t include YouTube embeds in emails. Images we do include if your site is public, but most embeds won’t transfer well to an email format so they aren’t included.
Next, your RSS feed, your site is set to display Summaries in your feed:
https://farmersmarketfinds.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-reading.php
This means that your content is truncated and people must visit your site to read the full post. This affects your email subscriptions as well as your RSS feed. Your feed will still include an image if you include a Featured Image.
Does that clear things up for you?
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Thank you Shawna! That was exactly what I needed to know. When wordpress doesn’t do something I want it to I always figure i just did something wrong. I appreciate all the input. One more question. Can I reconfigure my blog on the same theme, but set it so it is two columns wide. I want the main section to be larger.
Thanks,
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Hey Wendy!
Unfortunately the Oxygen theme doesn’t have that type of change built in. If you’re interested in looking at some other themes, here are a few that have a wider content area:
Let me know if I can help further!
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