Embedding a Video

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  makeyourmovefans · Member · Jun 27, 2013 at 12:11 am

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  I’ve read the forums and your suggestions, but I’m just not understanding why a YouTube video will no longer embed. It shows up as a hyperlink. Here is the page, we’re wanting to post. http://makeyourmovefans.wordpress.com/?p=1846&shareadraft=51cb81c0372a1

  I’ve tried using the embed code; I’ve tried using just the URL and not hyperlinking it. No matter what, it only shows up as a link to You Tube. That is NOT what we want. We want to keep people on our site.

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

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 27, 2013 at 12:15 am

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  What is the URL of the YouTUbe video? Not all of them have embedding enabled.

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  makeyourmovefans · Member · Jun 27, 2013 at 12:19 am

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  The YouTube url is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGQfVMglpYY

  Embedding is enabled, because it’s our video.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 27, 2013 at 12:29 am

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  Embedding with a Shortcode works every time for me. The shortcode is:
  [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGQfVMglpYY]
  change nothing. Copy and paste that code including the square brackets around it onto a single line.

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  makeyourmovefans · Member · Jun 27, 2013 at 12:50 am

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  Ahhhh! It’s the brackets that I was missing, as well as the “youtube” portion in front of the URL. Thank you soooo much!

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  timethief · Member · Jun 27, 2013 at 1:02 am

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  You’re welcome.