Impossible to Post Videos
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This is an On-going issue.
First it was You Tube videos (and yeah, I have the latest Adobe Flash)
With You Tube copying the embed code from the site would no longer work, nor would the “insert video” feature. After fooling with it for two days, I figured out that if you right-click on the video itself, and copy the HTML code that way, it would work.
Now, when trying to embed using VodPod like I have hundreds of times, no video, just the space, like it was doing with You Tube.
The VodPod pop-up window worked fine. The video previewed in that window fine. When I went to my Blog, nothing was there except the little VodPod link. No video. When you go into edit, the HTML coding is there, but no video.
This is incredibly frustrating because the ONLY video that will directly embed on WordPress is You Tube, so one has to use VodPod for the rest. You Tube is bad about deleting some videos, and many are using custom players. VodPod is a very useful tool.
We post a LOT of video, so this problem has effectively shut my blogging down.
Help!
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See the dozens of other threads on the issue, plike this one:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/embedded-videos-dont-show?replies=2
Also, you are incorrect that the only video that will embed is YOuTube. See the support documents for Video for more.
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Dude, been doing this for quite some time. The only video player that will embed directly is You Tube, though it’s now like pulling teeth.
You have to use VodPod to embed the rest of them, which has always worked fine, until now.
You can’t use the “insert video” tool in the HTML editor at all. Not for You Tube, not for any other player. Simply does not work. Never has.
It will place the coding in the text, but no video.
This latest issue is something brand new. Obviously WordPress has done some sort of function that is making this happen. Some sort of “upgrade” that has gone awry.
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In fact, I did.
The short code does not work.
You didn’t read what I wrote. Nothing works.
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The shortcode does work. The problem is the modifiers people are using. Delete everything after the ? and the ? too.
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No, it does not work.
The “add video” tool in WordPress editor is useless, period. Always has been.
Up until a week ago, if you wanted to post a You Tube video all you had to do is copy the HTML from the You Tube site and go. For all other players VodPod did the trick.
Now, if you want a You Tube video, the ONLY way to post it is to right click on the video itself and copy the HTML that way.
I finally got a video to post using VodPod just not the exact video I needed. This was an EyeBlast player vs Fox News’ player (which VodPod has always embedded before. )
You can’t just post EyeBlast embed codes like you can in Blogger. Any player but You Tube needs VodPod to work.
I did this as a test, and titled it as such through VodPod. Seeing that the video worked, I went ahead and built the story. I copied the codes from the WordPress editor into the new story. (something else I’ve done many times before.)
However, the video would not work! Not even a blank space where the video should be!
Something is terribly wrong here. I have no idea what WordPress has done, but obviously they have changed something.
I’ve posted many videos and never had an issue before last week. Now it’s a big issue.
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Up until a week ago, if you wanted to post a You Tube video all you had to do is copy the HTML from the You Tube site and go. For all other players VodPod did the trick.
You must use the “insert video” button on a page or post edit page. Copy the “Share” from YouTube, which is “http://LINK _HERE”
The shortcode does work.The “embed” code used to work, but it seems YouTube has changed things. The html needs to be modified as raincoaster suggested.
(BTY, she is a dude-ette and not DUDE!) -
Thanks Tess, sorry raincoaster, but already been there, done that. No joy. None.
As I said, the ONLY way I can get a YT video to post is right click on it and copy the HTML that way.
The insert video feature in the editor (it says “add video”) has never worked for any video.
I’ve never had a problem using VodPod to post off-brand (not YT) videos before. Always worked.
What’s insane, is I got one that I finally DID get to work, but needed to move it, so I copy and pasted the HTML code from one WordPress editor on my blog, to a brand new post. No video.
I know I’m not the most computer savvy guy on earth, but this is pretty simple stuff, and stuff I’d done many times before with no issues.
I use WordPress over Blogger for my blog (though I do post on Blogger sites) because I love most of the WP features a whole lot better, but this is enough to make me say bad words!!
Please help.
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I have read several other threads over the past week where people have experienced problems with YouTube, but the method I describe has never failed for me. Sorry, but I can’t explain why you are having difficulties.
I’m a fellow wp user and raincoaster is a very long-time volunteer with lots of experience with wp.com.
Have you tried to contact support directly?
http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/Include details when you email them: computers and operating systems and browsers you have tried, where you have copied the code from (the URLs on YouTube seem to reflect where you came from), eye color, phase of the moon…
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Yes, things like the browsers you have tried, the YouTube video URL, and the code you tried to add would be super helpful: http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/
You can post those things here too if you’d like. What we would do first is just test out the video link you provide by trying to add it to a test blog.
Note that if you paste a URL into the visual editor and there is underlying html copied as well, that can cause trouble for the shortcode. Try adding the shortcode using the html editor instead.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/editors/#html-editor
http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/youtube/You should also be able to insert a YouTube video just by placing a plain YouTube link on its own line inside your post. It should get converted into an embedded video. Kinda nifty if you want to give it a try.
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Tess, that method you recommend isn’t one I’ve ever tried. I just use the plain old shortcode. It never fails.
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@garyp4205 Okay, so first, thanks for reporting this and talking about it in the forums! I did check in with our developers and we made a few updates to the YouTube shortcode. I’m happy to say using the embed code from videos on YouTube.com is working now. Yay! We found that YouTube.com had made some changes that caused problems for our converter and we fixed the converter to account for those things.
We also found a problem where YouTube URLs had more than one “?” character in the query string and that was breaking the shortcode depending on where you copied the vido URL from. That has been fixed too!
Can you try adding videos again now? If you find any other YouTube video embed issues, let’s hear em. :)
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Thanks everyone!!
I have the YT situation handled now. It’s pretty easy to just copy the HTML code directly from the video itself, using the right-click. At worst, I sometimes have to re-size it. Takes seconds.
I’m more concerned with the VodPod issues, especially since I wasn’t able to take the VodPod generated HTML, that is sent to my blog,and simply copy/paste it into a new blog entry. That makes no sense at all.
Sorry to be such a pain with this.
Thanks.
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designsimply
Thanks for the tip on just posting the URL in HTML editor.
I just posted a blog that had two videos from You Tube.
This is the wildest one yet!
It posted the first video twice. Once where it belonged, and once where the second one was supposed to be!
Let me back up a minute. Since a lot of my posts go to multiple blogs, mine and others, I build a “worksheet” I compose a post first in WordPerfect.
Once built, I use Blogger (easier) to create a read to go blog with HTML coding, links, photos, video, and all. This is something I can simply copy/paste into the HTML editor everywhere else.
Anyhow, went back and checked to make sure I wasn’t stupid (always a possibility!!!!) and on my worksheet I indeed had two different HTML codes for the video (copied straight from the videos)
Anyhow, long story short, went back to video #2, again copied HTML code directly from video. Nothing.
I ended up just posting the URL as recommended, and there you go. Worked.
My only issue with this is sizing (you can’t edit) but at least I have video.
I just can’t figure out why this has suddenly become such an adventure, but it’s cool to learn some new tricks.
Now if we can figure out why I can’t copy the VodPod generated HTML code from one blog, to another, and have the video show up, we’ll be in business!
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VodPod creates one kind of code for WordPress.com and another kind of embed code for other kind of blogs/sites. So you can’t copy a VodPod code from a Blogger blog and expect it to work on a WordPress.com blog.
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