Help Needed With Videos!
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I’m having a lot of trouble putting videos into my blog – I used to be able to click on the “share” button when I’d found a suitable video on Youtube, then use this URL in the “insert videos” window of the post editor. Now I can’t do this or embed videos – I used to use the full embed code and switch to Edit HTML mode when putting videos in but this stopped working for me – mostly because the post editor wouldn’t allow me to adjust the size of videos, meaning they wouldn’t fit the column width and would look awful – which is why I switched to the other method.
This is really frustrating for me – videos are a big part of my blog since I’m always writing about music and other aspects of entertainment, which videos are good for backing up points. Can somebody please help?
Thank you
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You can specify the size. Put the full embed code, save draft, then the code changes to shortcode so you can then use this to specify size.
To specify the width and height explicitly:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaNH56Vpg-A&w=320&h=240]
To specify the width only:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaNH56Vpg-A&w=320] -
That’s what I used to do, but I had to switch to the other method because for some reason it wouldn’t let me adjust the size anymore: thanks for the help but I’m afraid that’s not much of an option for me!
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Does the YouTube code change from the iframe embed code to the WordPress shortcode after you save your draft? (This should all be done in the html editor)
What exactly are you seeing?
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As far as I remember with the embed way, the altered widths and heights would just revert back to the original if I clicked on save draft, publish or update.
With the insert videos method, I would put the URL in on the “From URL” tab like you’re supposed to, but when I click on “insert video” no code would show in the post editor, so nothing was there when I previewed/ published the post.
I’m not sure if that helped. I’m not great with technical HTML so it’s kind of a miracle I was able to adjust the sizes of videos for as long as I did!
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I think YouTube changed the way they give you the “share” link some time recently.
Try using the embed code which has something like this:
<iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Pk7yqlTMvp8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Put that into the html editor, save draft, then the “real” wp shortcode will appear, just as it used to. Then you can insert the width and height numbers, or just the width number as described in the support document I quoted from above. Save draft again, and when you preview the post, the video should appear the correct size.
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