youtubes have disappeared

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  nonnie9999 · Member · Nov 19, 2010 at 9:46 am

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  Youtube videos in the comments have disappeared, and only the urls remain. You can see what I mean in the comment thread in this post:

  A Jarring Recollection

  thanks to anyone who can help. :)

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

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  nonnie9999 · Member · Nov 19, 2010 at 9:47 am

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  By the way, in case it matters, I’m using Firefox.

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  airodyssey · Member · Nov 20, 2010 at 12:13 am

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  Hi. I did some tests and the correct way of embedding a YouTube video in a comment is to simply insert the URL, without anything else:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/comments/embeds/

  The usual [youtube=…] shortcode, which works in posts, does not appear to work in comments at the moment. I’m not sure if it’s always been that way though.

  You can edit those comments to remove the [youtube= before the URL and the ] after, and it should work:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/manage-comments/#editing-a-comment

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  nonnie9999 · Member · Nov 20, 2010 at 1:26 am

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  thanks so much airodyssey. i just changed one of the comments, and your method worked. i don’t understand, though, why embed codes were working, and suddenly they aren’t. does that mean i have to go through every single comment with a youtube embedded and edit each one? :shock:

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  airodyssey · Member · Nov 20, 2010 at 3:33 am

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  You’re welcome :-) My best guess is that they recently made changes to the way YouTube videos are embedded. You may want to report this to staff or at least ask them:

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  nonnie9999 · Member · Nov 20, 2010 at 5:06 am

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  i did email them a few days ago, but i haven’t gotten a response. i’ll write again. thanks so much, airodyssey. your help is greatly appreciated.