Videos won’t insert into blog post
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I have tried all day to post a video I uploaded to my media library to a post. After I click insert I do not want a URL link — I want a vid be inserted NOT URL.
After I hit insert –I get a URL being shown in the address bar BUT no text or other info being shown in the main area where a dashboard or affirmation should be? -
Do you have the videopress upgrade?
We can’t really help until you give us the URL of the blog, starting with http.
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Gee there are others like me. I’m ALSO wanting to accomplish what gwcntex1
is trying to do and finding that support is really slow or not very knowledgable about this so far! Getting frustrated with the whole process enough that I’m about to switch Blog hosts.Cmon WordPress get with the program and give us a solution that should be an EASY solution!!!!!!!
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Do you have the videopress upgrade?
We can’t really help until you give us the URL of the blog, starting with http.
It doesn’t matter to me if you switch hosts: the blog linked to your name isn’t hosted at WordPress.com.
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I guess the problem I’m having is I USED to be able to just embed the videos on my blog, not URL but embed. My blog is http://visionsphotography.wordpress.com/
Up to now I’ve been able to simply embed the code from you tube into the html, now that doesn’t seem to work. The problem with the url is that it gives viewers the option to embed the code, I’ve been selling these videos through the blog to wedding clients, they tend to sell themselves and is a very profitable add on for me. They wont buy if they can get the embed code. So please understand my frustration.
WHATS CHANGED? AND WHY??? Is it so that I have to purchase the Video Press upgrade? That would be my guess.
And as far as going elsewhere I’m talking getting frustrated at wordpress and going to a different blog altogether that will allow me to do what I need to do with the videos.
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YouTube changed something in their videos; you must see the difference if you’re on the site.
Back before you could do the regular Embed you used the shortcode. I’ve been here four years and it’s worked all this time. When other things change, the shortcode works. Just use the shortcode.
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Like I say the problem with the short code is it doesn’t give you the option to turn off the embed code when it is posted to the blog.
I CANT SELL THEM IF THEY CAN GET THE EMBED CODE FOR FREE, THAT is my problem.
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Besides this isn’t rocket science, this should be a simple thing to do. It works fine on my regular website, it SHOULD WORK easily on wordpress.
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What specific kind of video are you posting? Youtubes, if you can post them in the blog, can be traced back to the YouTube page and the embed code grabbed from there, so how could they be profitable if every YouTube is also a link back to the site where people could grab the embed code? Did your clients just never figure that out?
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No they havn’t. In particular I’m trying to post Animoto Videos to the blog, once again I used to be able to grab the embed code straight from Animoto and it was simple, then WordPress changed things, and I had to send them to You Tube and use You Tubes embed code. Now I cant do that and have to use the short code and I CANT continue doing that. OPTIONS???????? It would be much appreciated!
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Ah, thank you. THAT would have saved a helluva lot of time, had I known that.
Have you looked into Vodpod.com? The Vodpod video shortcode IS configurable, I believe, and it’s designed to work with virtually any video site.
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You’re asking us how to cheat your customers: how to upload your videos to Youtube, where everybody can see them and copy their embed code, but have an option that won’t allow your customers in particular to do so.
Sorry, if you want to sell videos that aren’t accessible otherwise, you’ll have to buy the Videopress upgrade and upload your videos to your blog, with the option “allow viewers to embed or download this video” off.
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At panaghiotisadam……….Im not trying to cheat anyone, just trying to sell DVD videos as an add on. Once they see them they DO want to buy them. Up to now there have been no problems with posting them to WordPress, but WordPress keeps changing things, like they did with Animoto. Getting old.
At raincoaster, thank you I will try Vodpod, but what is going to happen when WordPress decides to X that as they have with You Tube and Animoto embedding. I use to be able to do both. WordPress is the common thread so they are changing things imo to sell Video Press. jmo and I’m entitled to it.
I do appreciate the help, just getting frustrated not being able to do what I always have been able to do. And it should be a simple thing to do.
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WordPress isn’t the villain when it comes to YouTube; Youtube changed something. Unfortunately things are always changing online, which is why the word “surfing” is so apt. Find something that works for now, and keep a weather eye out for something that works better. I think the suggestion to get the Videopress upgrade is a good one, or you could presumably use Facebook, if you connect with your clients there. You can’t put them in your blog then, unfortunately.
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And You Tube will blame it on WordPress, and Animoto will blame it on WordPress, and WordPress will blame it on Animoto! And the saga continues.
All I know is the coding from both Animoto and You Tube will work just about anywhere else but on WordPress. It USED to work from both of them on WordPress!
I still say it’s WordPress’s way of forcing us to buy an upgrade to Video Press until someone can convince me otherwise.
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No one is forcing anyone to do anything.
WordPress.Com is a business which offers good basic free hosting. If you want “free” then it is a good platform.
(Yes there are things I’d wish to change, but so far it’s been good here.)
If you are running a business, presumably you should consider the upgrade as a cost of doing business (or continue as you are with the free service subject to someone’s business plan).
Or you could consider it a cost of your business to host your own blog using the free WordPress software (or some other). The rules would then be given by your hosting agent. Certainly less restrictive the wp.com but more expensive. Possibly more expensive than the straightforward upgrade.
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Yes I will probably do the upgrade, but that is not the point.
My point is the encoding from both Animoto and You Tube used to work on WordPress, would just LOVE to have an explanation on why it’s changed.
1st WordPress stopped recognizing the Animoto code which force me to go the You Tube route, now it won’t recognize the You Tube Embed code and it did up to sometime in the past few weeks. If it is a restriction what is the logic????
I just like things simple and it used to be simple. With Video Press I now will have extra steps, download the video, then upload the video to Video Press, and wait for it to do it’s thing before I can post it.
Thought changes were suppose to make life simpler, not harder with added steps.
Also the point IS the encoding from both will work just about anywhere else. Why not WordPress??????
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Yes, I understand your point. There are several ‘touchy’ issues in these threads about how much users would like this or that. Some are very eloquent. Some threads have multiple dosens of posters wishing for adsense or facebook or other stuff I’ve not heard of. But this wordpress is not a democracy.
WordPress.Com is a multiuser platform.
Perhaps there was some problem with coding for a safe multiuser platform when YouTube and Animoto (sorry, have no experience with that one, but YouTube has</em?> changed) changed.
Simple for you (or me, on free) is not the same as simple (or useful) for wp.com.
Other places are “other places.” They have different rules. We are not living in Paradise! (or Eden)
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