Youtube Videos

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  scarletsculturegarden · Member · Aug 16, 2010 at 10:03 am

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  Hi again,

  In the past few days or so I’m having a bit of a problem inserting youtube videos into my blog. I’ve been doing everything that I was doing before last week (when the videos were working) but now instead of showing the videos I’ve just got a big white space.

  I think this has happened once before and people have said that the videos do actually appear, but I can’t confirm this myself. Would anyone mind just having a gander on my site and making sure that there are actually videos there and not just white spaces?

  Thanks a lot :)

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

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  mark · Member · Aug 16, 2010 at 10:28 am

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  Could you link to a post with the problem please?
  It is easier to take a look and fix then.

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  scarletsculturegarden · Member · Aug 16, 2010 at 10:42 am

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  Okay:

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  mark · Member · Aug 16, 2010 at 10:52 am

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  I think this is a Youtube change but can’t be sure.

  Edit the post and look toward the end of the Youtube link. There is an NA? and then some characters. Try removing the ? and the rest of the ones after it?

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  scarletsculturegarden · Member · Aug 16, 2010 at 10:56 am

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  I’ve tried that and it’s still just a big old white space unfortunately!

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  mark · Member · Aug 16, 2010 at 11:01 am

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  Fixed – it was stuck on the old version. I deleted the dodgy link then re-added and it should look good now.

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  scarletsculturegarden · Member · Aug 16, 2010 at 11:06 am

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  So what do I do when I want to put in new youtube videos? Will I just carry on as usual and it should be okay?

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  mark · Member · Aug 16, 2010 at 11:09 am

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  Carry on as normal but anything after a ? can be deleted, including the ?
  I’m sure the coders here will be able to have that removed automatically but you can check just in case.

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  scarletsculturegarden · Member · Aug 16, 2010 at 11:10 am

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  I’ll give it a go – I’ve got another white space that needs sorting so I’ll test it on there

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  scarletsculturegarden · Member · Aug 16, 2010 at 11:13 am

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  Um, not sorted. I’ll give you the link to the other one – luckily this is the only other one so far but I fear for my draft posts which have videos in them!

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  mark · Member · Aug 16, 2010 at 11:22 am

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  See if this works.
  Edit the post, click the HTML tab and you will see:
  [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9KJDRXXrB8?fs=1&hl=en_GB]


  All the ?fs=1&hl=en_GB need deleting.
  
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9KJDRXXrB8]
  then save.

  Or:

  Open the video at Youtube then delete the link you have in the post (Visual or HTML view). Copy the Youtube link again and use the ‘Insert Video’ button above writing area to get the video into the post.

  See how you go with that?

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  scarletsculturegarden · Member · Aug 16, 2010 at 1:12 pm

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  Well the first one didn’t work but mercifully the second one did after a while of waiting for it to load!

  Thanks for the help, it was appreciated! :)