Have you reviewed Embeds?
Thread Starter
Olivia
(@hipphooray88)
Yes. Have I missed anything?
WordPress will automatically turn that into a YouTube embed when the post is viewed. As of 3.5, Auto-embeds are automatically enabled and there is no setting to turn them off in the WordPress admin pages. Prior to 3.5, there was an “Auto-embeds” checkbox in Administration > Settings > Media SubPanel.
You can also opt to wrap the URL in the [embed] shortcode. It will accomplish the same effect, but does not require the URL to be on its own line and the “Auto-embeds” setting to be enabled. It also allows you to set a maximum (but not fixed) width and height, like so: [embed width="123" height="456"]…[/embed]
If WordPress fails to embed your URL you will get a hyperlink to the URL.
This is pretty much what it says. And, it is not giving URL link either, come to think of it . . .
So you are trying to embed YouTube videos, yes?
Thread Starter
Olivia
(@hipphooray88)
Yes.
On the test page (Link above), the first line (YouTube address) is what I get when I copy it as instructed, and the video you see is what I get for using [embed] code.
Try just using http://youtu.be/uiz80CuDN8Y
That’s the url you get from the Share link on YouTube.
It worked perfectly for me. Have you tried:
– deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).
– switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.
– resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.
– re-uploading all files & folders – except the wp-content folder and wp-config.php & root .htaccess files – from a fresh download of WordPress. Make sure that you delete the old copies of files & folder before uploading the new ones.
Thread Starter
Olivia
(@hipphooray88)
Thanks.
That’s a bit too much for me to do, as I am not advanced. I am afraid I may mess up something. I may as well start all over . . LOL. I will still do what I can and see if it works. I have another testing site with the same theme, so I could try the theme there.
But, as I said, since I first installed 3.5.1, it has never worked. Upgrading has not helped. I did try deactivating some plugins, not all because I did not mess up anything, and deleted all the inactive ones.
If no luck, I’ll just have to continue using plugins and [embed] in the old fashioned way.
I appreciate your help. I will report back if any of the trouble shooting worked.
I have the same problem and no other plugin is causing it. WordPress just creates an iframe with src=”http://…”, but it should be https.
Thread Starter
Olivia
(@hipphooray88)
I am closing this thread as resolved. But the problem persists, and I have the same problem with another WP site where I am one of the guest authors.
I believe this feature is not working properly, and would like it to be looked at seriously for the future versions.
Thank you for all your help!
I believe this feature is not working properly, and would like it to be looked at seriously for the future versions.
We’d need to be able to reproduce the problem on a default theme with no plugins – so let us know if you want to work through that as esmi posted above.
Hi WPyogi,
I can reproduce this with certain elements.
Currently pasting in a straight YouTube/Video/Soundcloud link works fine. As soon as I switch over to using shortcode eg: [youtube #####] or [youtube http://youtube.com/####%5D I get the embed code returned.
With certain other services, such as Twitter, I get just the URL returned regardless.
Example:
In editor (text view)
Output
Running no plugins and the 2013 theme.
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Update: I’ve just noticed that the Twitter embed problem is being investigated.
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Jan Dembowski
(@jdembowski)
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I can reproduce this with certain elements.
That’s good but can you reproduce this in your own topic?
http://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting#postform
Per the forum welcome please post your own topic. This one is already marked resolved and there can be many reasons why you are having this problem.
