Stop auto play of video

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  magnetoblog · Member · Nov 8, 2008 at 2:18 am

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  Do you know how to stop a video that I’ve added to my blog from auto-playing?

  My blog is business-oriented, so my readers need the choice of which video to start playing (or they may be embarrassed if it starts playing while they’re at work).

  Thanks,

  Paul

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  vivianpaige · Member · Nov 8, 2008 at 2:32 am

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  If you are referring to a video on the blog linked in your user name, I’m afraid you are in the wrong forum. This forum is for blogs hosted at wordpress.COM. Head over to http://wordpress.ORG/support/

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  magnetoblog · Member · Nov 9, 2008 at 10:07 pm

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  Many thanks, Vivian. I’m a newby, so could have this wrong, but I thought this was the right forum for me, because my blog is http://writingtraining.wordpress.com/

  Should I still post my question at http://wordpress.ORG/support/ ?

  Thanks,

  Paul

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  vivianpaige · Member · Nov 9, 2008 at 10:10 pm

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  You need to change the link in your user name to be that of your wordpress.COM blog. The instructions are in the sticky, 8 Things, at the top of the forum. That’s the only way that volunteers in the forum can tell if you are in the right place.

  Since you do have a blog here, then no, don’t go to that forum. However, I don’t see any video auto-playing on your blog so did you fix it? If not, please provide a link to the post where the autoplay is occurring.

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  magnetoblog · Member · Nov 11, 2008 at 1:34 am

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  That’s very sweet of you to help me like this, Vivian.

  I’ve now updated my profile with my blog address, as you suggested.

  I removed the video that was auto-playing, because i’m about to launch the blog, and a lot of people will be looking at it.

  However, the video that i’d like to post to the blog is here:
  http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/83173

  thanks again,

  Paul