Embeds not working

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  cwilliams08745daa57 · Member · Feb 28, 2019 at 10:19 pm

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  I have a custom theme for a wordpress blog. In the gutenburg block editor I am attempting to add a embed link to youtube. When pasting the link or adding through youtube block it does not convert it to an embedded link.

  The following I have tried with no success.
  [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mDxcDjg9P4%5D
  [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mDxcDjg9P4[/embed]

  The only thing that does work is php function/iframe. But this is not easy to implement when writing content.

  [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mDxcDjg9P4&w=560&h=315]

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  mywritingmuscle · Member · Feb 28, 2019 at 10:27 pm

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  Hello @cwilliams08745daa57,

  What is the URL to the site you need help with?

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  cwilliams08745daa57 · Member · Feb 28, 2019 at 11:35 pm

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  It is not live yet

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  cwilliams08745daa57 · Member · Mar 2, 2019 at 5:39 pm

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  I figured it out. So in php for embeds to work, you have to call

  <?php the_content() ?>

  The function get_the_content() does not automatically embed content with oembed where the_content() does.