Why can I embed with Youtube and Vimeo, but not Dailymotion?

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  acumagnet · Member · Jan 14, 2015 at 10:31 pm

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  All I have to use are the address links for Youtube and Vimeo for [ embed]. But that doesn’t work for Dailymotion. Why is that?

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 14, 2015 at 10:33 pm

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  Because something went sideways at Dailymotion a few weeks ago. Unfortunately you can’t use Dailymotion at the moment at all. They changed the way their embeds work, and WP.com has not yet gotten a way back to compatibility.

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  acumagnet · Member · Jan 14, 2015 at 10:58 pm

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  WordPress changed their embed coding to the [ embed] [ / embed ] style too. So you are saying that Dailymotion changed one way and WordPress changed in another way.

  Is there a list of video websites that allow embedding that you know of? Or is it a crapshoot?

  crap·shoot
  ˈkrapˌSHo͞ot/
  nounNORTH AMERICAN
  a crap game.
  informal
  a risky or uncertain matter.
  “predicting any extreme weather event is a scientific crapshoot”

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  acumagnet · Member · Jan 14, 2015 at 10:58 pm

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  WordPress changed their embed coding to the [ embed] [ / embed ] style too. So you are saying that Dailymotion changed one way and WordPress changed in another way.

  Is there a list of video websites that allow embedding that you know of? Or is it a crapshoot?

  crap·shoot
  ˈkrapˌSHo͞ot/
  nounNORTH AMERICAN
  a crap game.
  informal
  a risky or uncertain matter.
  “predicting any extreme weather event is a scientific crapshoot”

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 14, 2015 at 10:59 pm

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  Yes. Go to the Support documents and put in “Video” in the search box.

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  dandelionsalad · Member · Jan 15, 2015 at 12:49 am

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  Here is the main thread started Dec. 1, 2014: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/dailymotion-embeds-are-no-longer-displaying?replies=22