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1. Bonusball
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I thought that the YouTube quicktag was supposed to embed the video? All I get is a link to the video. And if I change the markup to

   [youtube]... link ... [/youtube]

   it just writes out that text, instead of embedding?

   I put wp_head into the head and wp_footer into the footer, am I missing something?

2. Bonusball
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I'm actually still looking for an answer to this. If I put

   [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Ncxw1xfck]

   into the html of my post, it just puts that text into the post, it doesn't embed a video. Should it?

3. Shane G
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi,

   Check with these plugins:

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/smart-youtube/
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/daikos-youtube-widget/

   Thanks,

   Shane G.

4. autismne
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I'm having the same issue with a video from NPR.

   <embed src="http://www.npr.org/v2/?i=114025106&m=114057598&t=video" height="383" wmode="opaque" width="400" base="http://www.npr.org"></embed>

   Is there also an NPR plugin?

5. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   @autismne: that's video embed markup. To add it to your posts, you must use the HTML tab - not the Visual Tab. If you switch back to the Visual Tab, all of the code may be lost.

6. Bonusball
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks Shane. I thought wp did this natively, with no plugin?

   Anyway I installed
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/vipers-video-quicktags/
   and this works now.

7. troppmann
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   @autismne: that's video embed markup. To add it to your posts, you must use the HTML tab - not the Visual Tab. If you switch back to the Visual Tab, all of the code may be lost.

   so, what if you have been using the html tag the whole time and the results in your blog are still just the code and not the video? hmmmm?

8. troppmann
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   what you aught to have said to the guy was, you can use the CODE button on the html tab creating something like this...in between < code > < / code>

   <p><embed src="http://blip.tv/play/AYqeEQI" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="370" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"</embed>;`

   which would work without limited plugins...

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