Importing and embedding video from TED.com

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  phildarb · Member · Jan 5, 2008 at 7:07 pm

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  Please will someone tell me what I have to do to place a TED.com video in a post? TED tell me they have a number of WordPress boggers who use embed their videos but I can’t see how to add them. So far all I get is a blank screen in nthe editor and nothing on the blog. Thanks

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 5, 2008 at 7:17 pm

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  The blogs Ted is talking about are self-hosted blogs. At this time there is no way to display a TED.com video on WordPress.com.

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  ellaella · Member · Jan 5, 2008 at 7:18 pm

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  TED must mean self-hosted bloggers with WordPress software, as we cannot embed here. Flash, javascript and iframes are stripped for security reasons. Here’s information about what we can use:

  Can I add flash? video? Embed other media?

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  ellaella · Member · Jan 5, 2008 at 7:18 pm

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  /nod to tsp – whoops! didn’t see you!

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  phildarb · Member · Jan 5, 2008 at 7:19 pm

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  Thanks. I guessed that might be the case. Its pretty annoying. I’ll have the weigh up the pros and cons of hosting elsewhere I guess.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 5, 2008 at 7:52 pm

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  Pretty much all of the TED videos are on YouTube; I’ve posted one or two myself!