youtube videos don’t display on front page

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    lenacesarano · Member ·

    Hi there and thanks in advance for your help :)

    I’ve been spending all morning and yesterday afternoon to come up with a solution: On my wordpress blog, I planned to incorporate a fair deal of videos.
    I elected to embed them via the youtube video embed code. Within the articles, this works just fine – however the videos aren’t displayed on my blog’s frontpage. In other words: imagine entering my blog under the domain URL, see a lot of articles with no videos and when you click on the link to open the article page, there it is just fine.

    Things I’ve tried out without success
    – used wordpress’ own media embed via URL
    – downloaded and tried a youtube plugin
    – compared the index files of my blog with another one I have on which it works. My php is good enough to just about understand, what the different commands and scripts do, but not enough to write my own. First I copied the index file to the non-working blog. This made the videos work but obviously messed up the design. In the working blog, everything seems to be crammed into the index file (single/page respectively). In the non-working blog, I only find some short script along the lines of

    <?php
    get_header();

    if (have_posts())
    {
    while (have_posts())
    {
    art_page_navi();
    art_post();
    comments_template();
    }
    art_page_navi();
    } else {
    art_post_box(
    __(‘Not Found’, ‘kubrick’),
    ‘<p class=”center”>’ . __(‘Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.’, ‘kubrick’) . ‘</p>’
    . “rn” . art_get_search());
    }

    get_footer();

    However, there are seperate folders “templates”, “core” and “lang”. I had a look at their contents but couldn’t come up with something conclusive.

    my wordpress is v3.0.3 and the theme is made with Artisteer.

    I’d really appreciate your help, this has been driving me bonkers. Thanks in advance again!

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