YouTube video's do not show.

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  voshaar · Member · Jun 21, 2013 at 8:53 am

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  Hello,

  On my three blogs http://www.voshaaroutdoor.com, http://www.buitensportopleiding.nl and http://www.internationalwildernessguide.com the YouTube Video’s do not show direct in the screen. You only see the link and get redirected to the video on YouTube. They did before.
  Greetings,
  Raoul Kluivers (Voshaar)

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  voshaar · Member · Jun 21, 2013 at 8:54 am

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  Also, the video’s where very big on the screen before. Could I make them smaller (when it works as before)

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  sixhours · Member · Jun 21, 2013 at 4:20 pm

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  Howdy Raoul,

  When embedding a YouTube video using the URL, make sure it is on its own line, not linked, and that there are no other HTML tags around it in the code. You can switch to the Text editor to check for code around the URL

  For example, I was able to get the video on this page to work by removing the link and the <p> tags around it:
  http://buitensportopleiding.nl/hike-survival-instructeur/

  You can read more about embedding YouTube videos here:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/youtube/

  Alternatively, you can use the YouTube Shortcode to display the videos at a particular size instead of the default (full width of the content column). You can read more about how to do this here:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/youtube/#embedding-with-a-shortcode

  I hope this helps!

  Cheers,
  Caroline

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  voshaar · Member · Jun 21, 2013 at 5:16 pm

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  Hey,
  It does not show on the page you tried :)
  I’ll see what I can do.

  Raoul

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  sixhours · Member · Jun 21, 2013 at 5:40 pm

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  Hi Raoul,

  Ahh, sorry I wasn’t clear; I didn’t actually Update the post, just removed the code and previewed it. I won’t alter your content without your express permission. :)

  Give that code removal a try, though, and let me know if you have any luck.

  Cheers,
  Caroline

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  voshaar · Member · Jun 22, 2013 at 7:14 am

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  No luck, tried everything….

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  amightywp · Member · Jun 24, 2013 at 6:28 pm

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  Hi there,

  I just updated the shortcode to not include “https” for youtube and it is showing correctly on your site. You can see it here:

  http://note.io/10gsYwE

  You can also control the dimensions of the video through other commands in the shortcode which you can read about right here:

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

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  voshaar · Member · Jun 24, 2013 at 7:27 pm

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  Where do I get the shortcode?
  Sorry about all the questions!

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  amightywp · Member · Jun 24, 2013 at 7:35 pm

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  The shortcode is in the article which I linked you, specifically here:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/youtube/#embedding-with-a-shortcode

  And for more variations on the shortcode, you can see this section of the article:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/youtube/#video-customization-options