Why are vimeo videos not showing up?

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  wea127 · Member · Jul 10, 2012 at 5:57 pm

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  I followed the instructions to copy and paste the url for the video on a line by itself. When published, the url is showing instead of the video:

  http://wea127.wordpress.com/
  Blog url: http://wea127.wordpress.com/

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Jul 10, 2012 at 6:09 pm

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  Please see:

  Troubleshooting
  Make sure the Vimeo link is not hyperlinked. If the URL is shown in your theme’s link color (as the second line in the screenshot below), then it is hyperlinked. Simply select the whole URL and click the “Unlink” icon on your Visual Editor toolbar. http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/vimeo/#troubleshooting

  If you are not successful you can try using the vimeo shortcode

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  wea127 · Member · Jul 10, 2012 at 6:38 pm

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  It wasn’t hyperlinked. I tried using the shortcode:

  [vimeo http://vimeo.com/ieanea/review/40548761/7073c50f52%5D

  Now the link doesn’t show but neither does the video.

  I viewed the page source and found this where the embed code should be:

  <!– vimeo error: not a vimeo video –>

  The video is hosted on the vimeo web site. Any idea why this is happening? Thanks.

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  wea127 · Member · Jul 10, 2012 at 6:50 pm

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  I did have the closing bracket on the short code. It didn’t paste right into my post for some reason.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 10, 2012 at 6:52 pm

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  I just tried that myself in my test blog and I did not succeed. Hopefully another Volunteer will help out.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jul 10, 2012 at 7:33 pm

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  That’s a private video, so embedding has been disabled.