YouTube not embedding?
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I noticed yesterday that my youtube links will not embed properly. WordPress normally changes the code (confirmation) when you “save” the post.
Starting yesterday, it leaves the code alone and does not embed the files.
Any ideas?
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Are you putting it in the HTML editor, not the visual editor?
Have you tried using the [youtube=URL] format instead?
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The [youtube=url] works. Thanks for the work around! (still not sure what happened to the auto function :0
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Maybe YouTube changed something. On the other hand, it’s now Friday, and things always mess up on Friday. It’s just traditional.
Staff is aware of the issue, so hopefully they’re checking things out to fix it by Monday.
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Sorry to repeat myself guys, perhaps not explained. Im experiencing the same problem as Fredrr. However his solution is not working for me. Neither embedded code or the alternative suggested.
Pls advise
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franciscosiglo21, we need a link to your blog to be able to help you.
For both of you: we also need to know what browser and version you’re using, and what YouTube you are trying to post (direct link, please).
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I have the same issue. It used to work fine. Tried using these two in My blog…neither one worked.
<object width=”425″ height=”344″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/CkTNgkspSEM&hl=en”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/CkTNgkspSEM&hl=en” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”425″ height=”344″></embed></object>
<object width=”425″ height=”344″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/2ifFKiCM1zk&hl=en”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/2ifFKiCM1zk&hl=en” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”425″ height=”344″></embed></object>
I have the Visual Editor off when I put it in. I ended up just putting in a link to the page just to have soemthing in there. Good enough? Nope. I wanted the video in but I guess what I have there is gonna have to do.
http://mikeytherhino.wordpress.com/ Drop me a line if you have any tips.
BTW what do you mean when you say [youtube=url]?
I am presuming you mean all that Code gibberish up top with <Object width=425… and all that. Any help would be appreciated! -
Object embedding doesn’t work on wordpress.com, what happens is that all that code gets stripped out and the result is a short code to the video starting with [youtube=…]
You can read about it here http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/07/29/how-do-i-post-a-youtube-video/
Just for the sake of experimenting I just tried using the embed URL you wrote above and the Visual Editor automattically changed it into WP’s shortcode and I can see the video in the preview of my post.
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added the url via the add media section and embed it that way. never did it that way before, it worked like a charm. Odd that you say object embedding doesn’t work tho, because until yesterday it, for me at least, did.
Doesn’t matter tho, Got it Done!
Thank You!
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It’s a relatively new tweak that has gotten little publicity from WP.com.
But that workaround’s not what I meant by mine: I was referring to the old-fashioned way of putting YouTubes in. You go to YouTube, click More on a video to copy the URL there, then put it in your blog using [youtube=URL] such as
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=UHE4X7HFmTM]Note that for this you MUST use the URL you find under the More link, because the URL in the browser bar can vary.
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I checked out this discussion yesterday while trying to figure out what had changed to keep my video posting from working. You can see what I discovered at http://justfordancers.wordpress.com/. I just have on thing to add and that is that the only way I could pick out the URL from all the code in the imbed bar was to copy the whole thing to my post and then look for the highlighted section of it.
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Have tried it two ways today:
First I copied the whole YouTube embed code and pasted it into the Visual Editor and after I saved the post, WordPress.com changed it to the following code
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myJj0mNNe1Y&rel=0]The video showed up in my post.
Then I tried the way I’ve done it forever “Add Video/From URL” button and pasted the YouTube URL for the video into the space for it, then presses “Insert into Post” and that generated this code
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myJj0mNNe1]
The video didn’t show up the first try, but it did on the second try.
Probably just a temporal glitch somewhere in the omniverse.
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