Google video bar (beta) – how to make it work on WP

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  seasidereptheatre · Member · Feb 24, 2011 at 4:12 pm

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  I’m attempting to add a video bar from Google to my WP site, but it isn’t working. I’m using the twenty ten theme which I think has a right sidebar width of 175px. I believe YouTube (google) smallest width for video embedding is 320px, so when I add the code to my widget for sidebar, all I get is a hyper-linked text of code rather than the actual video bar. I’ve also tried changing the video size in the embed code but I get the same results. I’m trying to use the vertical video bar, but I’d be fine with adding a horizontal video bar somewhere else on my WP if it just won’t work on the sidebar. This video bar seems to be a beta version.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 24, 2011 at 8:48 pm

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  You cannot embed some resticted codes into a wordpress.COM blog and ig you try to the software will strip the code out. Please see here. > http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/

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  davestallard · Member · Feb 25, 2011 at 6:41 am

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  Any other way of doing this because I’m trying to achieve the exact same things and there don’t seem to be any plugins that can do it well (and have been updated in the last couple of years)?

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  airodyssey · Member · Feb 26, 2011 at 4:12 am

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  @davestallard: You cannot install plugins on a WordPress.COM blog, so perhaps you are referring to a WordPress.ORG blog and are in the wrong forum?
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-read-me-first-before-posting?replies=1
  If you do have a WordPress.COM blog, we need the URL, starting with http://