Issue Embedding YouTube Playlist

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  sochya · Member · Apr 22, 2011 at 6:59 pm

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  Hi, I’m extremely new around here. I’m not trying to embed a youtube video, but rather a youtube PLAYLIST. Video embedding works for me, but playlist doesn’t and I would LOVE some help.

  Here’s the embed code youtube gives me:

  <object width=”480″ height=”385″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/p/4BD0B3B989298176?hl=en_US&fs=1″></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/p/4BD0B3B989298176?hl=en_US&fs=1″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”480″ height=”385″ allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true”></embed></object>

  And here’s the playlist URL:

  http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=4BD0B3B989298176

  But no matter what I do, it keeps coming up blank when I publish. Or, if not blank, than it just shows the url name and that’s it. No playlist.

  Any help would be much appreciated!

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  timethief · Member · Apr 22, 2011 at 7:54 pm

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  You may be able to embed this Flash using a gigya shortcode. Please see here > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/category/gigya/

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  sanjidas · Member · Apr 24, 2011 at 5:49 pm

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  @sochya,
  [gigya src="http://www.youtube.com/p/4BD0B3B989298176?hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="385" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"]

  This is the code that you need. I modified the flash code to gigya shortcode, a method of embedding Flash content in wp.com (I learned it from Panos, author of the blogger timethief is referring to).

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  sochya · Member · Apr 25, 2011 at 9:17 am

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  Thank you both so much! That worked! You’re best! <3

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  soundendurance · Member · May 3, 2011 at 9:28 pm

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  That did work :) Thanks!

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  sanjidas · Member · May 5, 2011 at 6:15 pm

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  @sochya and soundendurance,
  You are welcome!

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  shivnibble · Member · May 8, 2011 at 5:21 pm

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  Excellent tidbit of info – most appreciated. I was becoming annoyed with having to post individual videos.

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  thomastoney · Member · May 13, 2011 at 7:33 pm

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  Is there any way to customize the youtube player? For example having thumbnails of other videos within the playlist, shown alongside the player.

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  timethief · Member · May 13, 2011 at 7:37 pm

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  @thomastoney
  Not that I am aware of.