Youtube vids not working

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  rinvesting · Member · Jul 7, 2011 at 3:46 pm

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  Hey everyone,

  I tried adding a Youtube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_pThVepJ8o) to one of my recent blog posts (http://austocks.wordpress.com/2011/07/05/a-tale-of-two-countries/). For some reason, it isn’t working. Any help would be much appreciated.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 7, 2011 at 4:58 pm

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  Please go through these instructions again step by step. http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/youtube/

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  rinvesting · Member · Jul 8, 2011 at 11:16 am

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  I’m sorry, but it still isn’t working. Any ideas?

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  airodyssey · Member · Jul 8, 2011 at 11:20 am

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  What’s the exact code you are copying-pasting on your blog?

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  rinvesting · Member · Jul 8, 2011 at 4:19 pm

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  timethief · Member · Jul 8, 2011 at 4:40 pm

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  Go to your blog edit the post and switch to the HTML editor. Then enter this shortcode and then save.
  [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_pThVepJ8o]

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  airodyssey · Member · Jul 8, 2011 at 10:31 pm

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  The method suggested by timethief works perfectly and is the one I use to avoid any errors.

  If you were trying to just copy and paste the URL into the visual editor, make sure it does not become an actual live link (in other words, it should not become underlined or change color automatically).

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  rinvesting · Member · Jul 9, 2011 at 2:34 am

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  It works, thank you both timethief and airodyssey.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 9, 2011 at 5:05 am

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  @austocks
  G’evening,
  I knew it would work because I had it up and running n my test blog before I posted the shortocde for you. Happy blogging! :)