Posting Videos

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  ascendingthematrix · Member · Oct 10, 2012 at 3:26 pm

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  I feel really dumb! I cannot seem to get past the brain f**t that keeps me from understanding how to post my videos so they can be viewed on the blog, rather than having to click the link to the video. I’ve read through the ‘tutorials’ and have been posting videos since the beginning of the year. It seems lately I’ve been having more problems. Help! How can I – consistently – post the videos to be viewed directly rather than readers having to click the link?
  Thank you!

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  timethief · Member · Oct 10, 2012 at 3:31 pm

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  youtube troubleshooting
  Make sure the YouTube link is not hyperlinked. http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/youtube/#troubleshooting

  Have you tried using the youtube shortcode? It works every time for me? http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/youtube/#embedding-with-a-shortcode

  Video shortcodes here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/shortcodes/#video

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  ascendingthematrix · Member · Oct 10, 2012 at 4:26 pm

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  OK, I guess I’m just not getting it. I’ve tried everything. It used to be all I had to do was post the video link as ‘text’ and it would post the video without a problem. Maybe I’m not understanding ‘shortlink’ – I’ve read the info again – is it simply that “youtube=” is added to the front and “detail page” is removed from the end? I’m about to give up and just post all videos as links – but that bums me out because it seems so cheesy! I don’t understand how I can have a genuis level IQ and not be able to get something so basic. Any other explanation you can offer would be so appreciated! Otherwise I’ll quit bothering you guys with this. But I REALLY want to figure this out!
  Thanks!!

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  timethief · Member · Oct 10, 2012 at 4:28 pm

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  Please just post the video link here and I will provide the shortcode for you. :) Note to worry, this really isn’t rocket science and a look is worth a thousand words.

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  ascendingthematrix · Member · Oct 10, 2012 at 4:39 pm

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  Thank you, thank you!
  Here is one of them:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzBIRL7PKoY&feature=player_detailpage

  You’re always SO patient – thank you for that!! : )

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  timethief · Member · Oct 10, 2012 at 4:41 pm

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  Here’s the code. Change nothing in it:
  [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzBIRL7PKoY&feature=player_detailpage]

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  ascendingthematrix · Member · Oct 10, 2012 at 4:54 pm

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  Yes!! You are my heroine Timethief!! Now can you just tell me, did you access the shortlink for that somewhere, or just add 1st bracket,youtube, and last bracket?
  Thank you so much!
  Peace

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  ascendingthematrix · Member · Oct 10, 2012 at 5:02 pm

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  Not to worry – I figured it out. From now on I’ll just add those three things to the link. thanks again!
  Peace

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  timethief · Member · Oct 10, 2012 at 5:07 pm

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  Yay! I knew if you looked at the shortcode hard and thought about it you would master this. Happy blogging! :)