Title: Auto embed not working Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Auto embed not working * [fembiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fembiz/) * (@fembiz) * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-embed-not-working/) * Hi guys, * I am having a problem with You Tube videos. Sometimes, when I copy and paste the URL in my post it shows the video embedded. However, other times, it just shows the URL. Am I doing something wrong? If anyone knows how to resolve this or has experienced the same issue please get in touch with me. * Thanks Viewing 12 replies - 1 through 12 (of 12 total) * [Brad Markle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imh_brad/) * (@imh_brad) * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-embed-not-working/#post-2376985) * Hi fembiz, * Are you copying the embed code from youtube, or using some other means to show the video? * Are you sure that you’re always pasting the code in the code editor and not the wysiwyg editor? * Can you supply a url to a page that is not working correctly so we can review? * Thread Starter [fembiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fembiz/) * (@fembiz) * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-embed-not-working/#post-2377006) * Hi imh_brad, * Thanks for your response. When I do it with the embed code, it works fine always. However, sometimes I just copy and paste the URL from my address bar. Sometimes it works, other times it doesn’t. This is what baffles me because it should either work all the time or not at all. The code is always pasted in the visual editor and not the HTML editor. Should I be pasting it in the HTML editor? You can check it out here [http://www.mydestination.com/blog/?p=1019&preview=true](http://www.mydestination.com/blog/?p=1019&preview=true) * Thanks for your help * [Brad Markle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imh_brad/) * (@imh_brad) * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-embed-not-working/#post-2377015) * [I read up on the documentation further](http://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds) and: * > WordPress will automatically turn that into a YouTube embed when the post is > viewed. * I’m thinking this may be a plugin / theme issue. Have you tried the usual: 1. switching to default theme 2. disabling plugins * … to see if one of those two is causing a conflict with the youtube code? * Thread Starter [fembiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fembiz/) * (@fembiz) * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-embed-not-working/#post-2377025) * Well, it seems like it is not doing that for some reason. Atleast not all the time. I have tried switching to the default theme and disabling the plugins and the problem is still there * [Brad Markle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imh_brad/) * (@imh_brad) * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-embed-not-working/#post-2377032) * When I visit [http://www.mydestination.com/blog/?p=1019&preview=true](http://www.mydestination.com/blog/?p=1019&preview=true) I get an error page. Can you try giving us another url? * Thread Starter [fembiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fembiz/) * (@fembiz) * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-embed-not-working/#post-2377254) * Yeah sure here you go [http://www.mydestination.com/blog/video](http://www.mydestination.com/blog/video) * [Brad Markle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imh_brad/) * (@imh_brad) * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-embed-not-working/#post-2377256) * I am getting a 404 there as well – [http://www.mydestination.com/blog/video](http://www.mydestination.com/blog/video) * [Brad Markle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imh_brad/) * (@imh_brad) * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-embed-not-working/#post-2377280) * Hi fembiz, were you able to resolve this issue? * Thread Starter [fembiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fembiz/) * (@fembiz) * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-embed-not-working/#post-2377281) * no I haven’t been able to. and i don’t know why you can’t access the URL. I will look for another one and send it to you later * [artdias90](https://wordpress.org/support/users/artdias90/) * (@artdias90) * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-embed-not-working/#post-2377363) * same problem here… even worse, because in the homepage I can open the embed youtube url via teaser post. But when I open the video it shows nothing. * [Brad Markle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imh_brad/) * (@imh_brad) * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-embed-not-working/#post-2377364) * Hi artdias90, can you supply us a URL to the page with the issue so we can test and view the problem? * Thread Starter [fembiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fembiz/) * (@fembiz) * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-embed-not-working/#post-2377367) * @artidas90, I deleted the plugin and found another way around it. the plugin doesn’t work as described Viewing 12 replies - 1 through 12 (of 12 total) The topic ‘Auto embed not working’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [video](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/video/) * [Youtube](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/youtube/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 12 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [fembiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fembiz/) * Last activity: [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-embed-not-working/#post-2377367) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics