You Tube videos not showing up in email posts

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  stevemclellanolympia · Member · Mar 31, 2015 at 5:24 pm

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  Greetings — each week when I do my blog post I embed a YouTube video. These show up on my blog, but they are not coming through for email subscribers. I don’t know if this has been happening all along but it has for at least the last couple of posts.

  Is there a setting I need to be activating? Thanks for your help! Steve McLellan

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

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  thatrobyn · Member · Mar 31, 2015 at 10:40 pm

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  Hey Steve,

  YouTube embeds that publish on your site do NOT display in email notifications. There isn’t a setting available to change this.

  Sorry — wish I could help more. If you have any other questions, please do let me know how I can assist.

  Thanks!

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  stevemclellanolympia · Member · Apr 1, 2015 at 2:39 am

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  Thanks Robyn — I really want to include YouTube embeds in my posts but don’t want to frustrate people who subscribe by email. Can I put a link in as an alternate for those folks (so I would have the embedded video and then a link saying something like “If viewing in email, click here for video”

  Alternatively, right now I have the email feed carrying the entire post — can I shorten it to just include the opening paragraph or so (before the embed) and then have them click over the blog where it will be in full embedded glory. Not ideal, but better than me saying “check out this video” and then no video there.

  Any other suggestions for workarounds welcome as well. Thanks for your help. Steve

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  thatrobyn · Member · Apr 1, 2015 at 5:06 pm

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  Hey Steve!

  Alternatively, right now I have the email feed carrying the entire post — can I shorten it to just include the opening paragraph or so (before the embed) and then have them click over the blog where it will be in full embedded glory. Not ideal, but better than me saying “check out this video” and then no video there.

  I actually think this is a great solution. The reason I say this is that interested readers will click and be brought straight to your site. It will draw them directly to your article where your embedded YouTube video will play.

  This is the same amount of clicks required as adding a video link to your email. However, drawing people directly to your individual blog posts, where your embedded video can play, is a streamlined approach. I always suggest bringing people to your site as often as possible. Traffic begets more traffic.

  Personally, this is the path I prefer in my own blogs.

  You can do this by setting your feed to display as Summary, rather than full text, here:

  https://laughingbearpress.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-reading.php

  I hope this helps! If you have any other concerns, drop me a note. Thanks much!

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  stevemclellanolympia · Member · Apr 2, 2015 at 6:05 pm

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  Thanks Robyn — I will go that way. Looks pretty straightforward but I will let you know if I need more help. Steve

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  thatrobyn · Member · Apr 2, 2015 at 6:49 pm

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  Terrific! Thanks for following up. Just drop me a note, should any questions pop up.

  Cheers!

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  stevemclellanolympia · Member · Apr 6, 2015 at 5:10 pm

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  Hey Robyn — need a little more help. I went to the instructions you linked and used the excerpt function — but the email version still had the complete post (without the video). What else should I have done?

  Also do you have an example of someone who you think does this format well — I’d like to see how they set up the jump.

  Thanks — Steve

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  thatrobyn · Member · Apr 6, 2015 at 6:55 pm

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  Hey Steve!

  Thanks for your note. It doesn’t look as if the Summary setting is turned on yet.

  Please click the link below:
  https://laughingbearpress.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-reading.php

  Then, change the area labeled, “For each article in a feed, show.” Choose Summary, instead of Full text. After that, save your change.

  The action I’ve just described will change your email notifications to summaries, as requested. This is an automated feature, there isn’t anything else to set up once you’ve opted for Summary feeds.

  Let me know if I can help in any other way. Thanks again!

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  stevemclellanolympia · Member · Apr 6, 2015 at 8:19 pm

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  Thanks Robyn — I believe what happened is I checked that option but failed to click save at the bottom before exiting the page. Looks like all is set correctly now. Really appreciate your help — Steve

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  thatrobyn · Member · Apr 6, 2015 at 8:23 pm

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  Steve!

  Ha! If I had a nickel for every time I’ve done that…I’d have A LOT of nickels!

  Glad all is well :)