Getting a 404 error when trying to embed You Tube video

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  coblife1 · Member · Jan 18, 2015 at 12:34 am

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  We are trying to paste a you tube link into our portfolio page. When we preview the page after pasting and saving where the video should be it just says 404 error page not found.

  We have tried every variation to the link to get it to work but we end up with the same result.

  How can we correct this so that our video from you tube links properly and shows up on our website.

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

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  coblife1 · Member · Jan 18, 2015 at 12:36 am

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  The link we need help with is coblife.ca/coblife

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  alexjgustafson · Member · Jan 18, 2015 at 5:06 pm

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  Hi there,

  The page you mention, coblife.ca/coblife , and its top-level domain coblife.ca are not hosted on WordPress.com, so I cannot support those issues in this forum.

  If your self-hosted site is running the free software from WordPress.org, I recommend you install and activate the Jetpack plugin, and activate the Shortcode Embed option within Jetpack settings. This will allow you to embed videos from YouTube just as you would on WordPress.com.

  There is support available from the WordPress.org community here:

  http://codex.wordpress.org/

  https://wordpress.org/support/

  Alternatively you can use these steps provided by YouTube to embed content:

  https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/171780?hl=en

  -Alex G.