New YouTube Embed Code Disappearing?!

Just wanted to say I am experiencing the same issue as tasty.donuts above…..

I’ll be trying the solution presented by jamal mohamed

Thanks for the code Jamal. It works great! I made a small adjustment to handle multiple videos and to allow the user to choose which video to display. It wraps them in a div so that they can be styled.

/* Add youtube_embed shortcode */
add_shortcode( 'youtube_embed', 'my_youtube_embed_shortcode');

/**
 * New YouTube Embed shortcode.
 *
 * Enables you to insert the New YouTube embed code in a custom
 * field and display it inside your post using the shortcode
 * [youtube_embed]
 * by default it will display all videos added as custom field.
 * The parameter "number" tells it which video to display according to the order it was added to the custom fields.
 * [youtube_embed number="2"] will display only the 2nd "youtube_embed" custom fields.
 */

function my_youtube_embed_shortcode($atts){
	extract( shortcode_atts( array(
		'number' => null,
	), $atts ) );

	global $wp_query;

  // Grab the value of youtube_embed meta key
	$yt_embed = get_post_meta( $wp_query->post->ID, 'youtube_embed', false );

	if ( $yt_embed ) {
		if ($number == null) {
			foreach($yt_embed as $code_string) {
				$embed_code .= '<div class="youtube">' . $code_string . '</div>';
			}
		}
		else {
			$number -= 1;
			$embed_code = $yt_embed[$number];
		}
	}
	return $embed_code;
}

@tasty.donuts

Of course I haven’t really had the time to zone in on it so I don’t really know what benefits the iFrame gives you for the type of videos that you’ll be using. From what I’ve read they seem to offer the capability to change the type of video to better suit mobile browsing

Since the breakthrough of HTML5 the usage of flash based video players were fading. The benefit of using iFrame for embedding videos and other flash based components like Scribd books is that the server detects whether the client browser supports <video> tag or not. iPhone and iPad (for example) don’t support flash, but they support the video tag, therefore YouTube, Vimeo and Scribd will serve the appropriate version for these devices.

@prettyspecialrecords – Glad that it worked for you. And your adjustments are spot on too!