Youtube video embed address didn’t work

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  melolimo · Member · Sep 1, 2010 at 2:08 am

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  Hello all,

  I am pretty new to WP. Yesterday I tried embedding this Youtube video into my blogpost.

  <object width=”660″ height=”525″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/5PzL8aL6jtI?fs=1&hl=en_GB&border=1″></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/5PzL8aL6jtI?fs=1&hl=en_GB&border=1″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”660″ height=”525″></embed></object>

  however, when it was published, the video did not appear and the embed address that appeared on my blog is

  src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/5PzL8aL6jtI?fs=1&hl=en_GB&border=1″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”660″ height=”525″>

  I do not understand why this happened and what can be done to correct this?

  Thanks so much for all your replies.

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

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  raincoaster · Member · Sep 1, 2010 at 2:45 am

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  YouTube is much like Facebook recently, and they’re changing things so sometimes using the full embed code doesn’t work. I recommend using the shortcode method, which does always work:

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

  Additionally, if you’re pasting Embed code into the visual editor, you’re going to run into problems in most themes. Put it in the HTML editor instead.

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  melolimo · Member · Sep 1, 2010 at 8:13 am

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  Thank you. Now I know how. Thank you raincoaster for the information. You’re very helpful :)

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  raincoaster · Member · Sep 1, 2010 at 8:34 am

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  You’re welcome. Sometimes I am!