YouTube embeds not working properly

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  goodolewoody · Member · Jun 25, 2013 at 10:59 am

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  Importing from YouTube not working properly. One gets the URL INSTEAD of the embed. BTW, the URL does work, but, one wants the embed.

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Jun 26, 2013 at 5:28 am

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  Hi,

  The embeds are working fine for me. Here is a screenshot of what I am seeing:

  

  Are you still having this issue?

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  goodolewoody · Member · Jul 12, 2013 at 1:12 pm

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  Yes, when I use a link (embed?) from You Tube in the editor, I get URL for the You Tube media on my post instead of the embed like in your example.

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  goodolewoody · Member · Jul 13, 2013 at 10:32 am

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  Maybe I didn’t explain correctly: I am adding media from a URL link with YouTube. I am running Win 8 64 bit with Google Chrome. I appreciate any help.

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Jul 15, 2013 at 5:13 am

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  Here is a test post I made:

  testing youtube embed

  The first video was embeded by copying and pasting the youtube embed code. In this case:

  <iframe width="640" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/kYtGl1dX5qI?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

  The second was embeded by simply pasting in the youtube URL for the video:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYtGl1dX5qI

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  goodolewoody · Member · Jul 17, 2013 at 12:32 pm

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  Win 8 64 bit
  Google Chrome
  Win IE

  I tried working with both browsers and your 2nd example in your last post. Same results. There has been a fundamental change. When you copied the URL on a YouTube video, went to the VISUAL EDITOR, clicked BY URL, etc. you would get an embed that appears as a URL in the editor but on the blog you would get a JPG from the video and the option to play the video FROM THE WEBPage. [Not the link] I found this example from May 31, 2013:

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  goodolewoody · Member · Jul 17, 2013 at 12:33 pm

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  my link doesn’t appear in my last response:

  http://goodolewoody.me/2013/05/31/im-a-believer-shrek-music-video/

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Jul 17, 2013 at 6:32 pm

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  So it appears that the issue is that your Youtube links are hyperlinked rather than just pasted in. If you link them, the system thinks it is supposed to be a link and not an embed. When placing them, in the visual editor, just paste in the URL and don’t set it up as a link.

  Here is a support document “troubleshooting” section that talks about it:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/youtube/#troubleshooting

  Please let me know if you have further questions or if anything is unclear.

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  goodolewoody · Member · Jul 18, 2013 at 11:23 am

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  Using the shortcode worked. T H A N K S for your patience in helping me find a solution to this vexing problem. :)

  Please pass this along to the programmers: Using the ADD MEDIA IN VISUAL EDITOR and choosing BY URL NO LONGER results in an AUTOMATIC EMBEDDED SHORTCODE WHICH INCLUDES REMOVING THE HYPERLINK. e.g., YouTube.

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Jul 18, 2013 at 5:25 pm

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  Happy to help.

  Let me know if there is anything else I can do for you. Otherwise, thanks for using WordPress.com.