Auto embed movies from YouTube/Vimeo. The right way?

Resolved Chantal Coolsma
(@chantalc)

11 years, 4 months ago

Since upgrading WordPress to version 3.5 and Events Manager to the latest version, auto embed of YouTube/Vimeo movies doesn’t work anymore.

I previously used

<?php the_content(); ?>

to display the event or location content. This didn’t work anymore.

Now I changed single-event.php and replaced it with

<?php echo $EM_Event->output('#_EVENTNOTES'); ?>

This shows the content, but doesn’t convert a YouTube url to a movie.

What is the right way to get this to work again?

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/events-manager/

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agelonwl
(@angelonwl)

11 years, 4 months ago

maybe this will help – http://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedding-youtube-videos-into-an-event?replies=9

Thread Starter Chantal Coolsma
(@chantalc)

11 years, 4 months ago

I found that already. But shouldn’t those URLS be translated to embeds automatically? WordPress does it using the_content by default.

Plugin Author Marcus (aka @msykes)
(@netweblogic)

11 years, 4 months ago

probably not happening because we’re overwriting the_content with our formats after WP has converted the links. will look into that asap, because ideally it should work with the [embed] shortcode too

an alternative for the moment is to use a plugin like jetpack which has embed shortcodes too e.g.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaNH56Vpg-A]

tested this and works on the demo site – http://demo.wp-events-plugin.com/events/pierce-the-veil-2012-12-18/

Thread Starter Chantal Coolsma
(@chantalc)

11 years, 4 months ago

Thanks Marcus. Client has a lot of events/locations with almost every event/location a youtube or vimeo link in the content. Would take a lot of work to change them all. (and a customer who will be angry)

Thread Starter Chantal Coolsma
(@chantalc)

11 years, 4 months ago

[embed] code the Jetpack method doesn’t work either.

Plugin Author Marcus (aka @msykes)
(@netweblogic)

11 years, 4 months ago

did you try out the youtube example I gave above? That definitely does work, as you can see on the demo.

Thread Starter Chantal Coolsma
(@chantalc)

11 years, 4 months ago

Hi Marcus,

It works on a normal blogpost with both URL only and [youtube=…] However it doesn’t work from Events or Locations. So there is something wrong.

Any ideas?

Plugin Author Marcus (aka @msykes)
(@netweblogic)

11 years, 4 months ago

have you tried this on a default theme? or maybe with other plugins disabled?

if you have a sample link where you’re trying this on, it may help (although won’t be able to check till after the holidays)

Thread Starter Chantal Coolsma
(@chantalc)

11 years, 4 months ago

I already found a solution this morning. I have deactivated a popular posts plugin, which wasn’t needed. I reverted back to <?php the_content(); ?> and now all movies or soundcloud tags are shown okay.

Still appears a mystery why it doesn’t work with #_EVENTNOTES.

agelonwl
(@angelonwl)

11 years, 3 months ago

thanks for the updates.

Plugin Author Marcus (aka @msykes)
(@netweblogic)

11 years, 3 months ago

that would probably be because the ‘the_content’ filter isn’t fired which would be what converts those fields

maybe when I fix the embed shortcode not working it’ll also fix this problem too.

Plugin Author Marcus (aka @msykes)
(@netweblogic)

11 years, 1 month ago

FYI, this has been fixed in the latest dev version and will be in the next update. Embed codes and e.g. youtube urls now get converted correctly.

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