Why does Youtube Not work properly in a post?

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  edwardbrain1 · Member · Jul 12, 2015 at 3:58 pm

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  I followed this advice from WordPress: https://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/youtube/

  However, it did not work properly with this post: https://edwardbrainblog.wordpress.com/2015/07/12/jon-vickers-has-passed-away/

  How do I fix this so the preview shows up for all the clips?

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

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Jul 12, 2015 at 6:08 pm

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  Hi,

  Some of the videos on the post “Jon Vickers has Passed Away” are displaying properly. In the cases where the video players are not displaying, I would guess that instead of entering just the video URL, you instead entered a link to the URL.

  For example:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpXnTlVNAIA
  will display the video player, whereas a link to the same video URL would look, in the text mode of the post editor, like this:

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpXnTlVNAIA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpXnTlVNAIA</a>

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  edwardbrain1 · Member · Jul 12, 2015 at 8:35 pm

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  Thanks musicdoc1. That fixed the issue for me, and know I get a preview screen which is what I wanted.

  Thanks again!

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Jul 12, 2015 at 9:37 pm

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  Great! You’re very welcome.