Title: Embedding Videos Doesn't Work
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Embedding Videos Doesn't Work

 *  [Jade Bryan Jardinico](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ovijade/)
 * (@ovijade)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedding-videos-doesnt-work/)
 * I’m a writer for symbianworld.org and it seems that embedding videos like youtube
   and vimeo doesn’t work. **I tried to clear cache, history and all to two of my
   browsers, firefox and chrome** with latest version same with flash player. After
   that the vids aren’t still working.
 * On the Visual tab I can see a flash video box (same on vimeo vids), but when 
   I preview it, then there’s no any video, same when I publish the article the 
   videos don’t show and the **embedded code is gone** when I came back to edit 
   the post.
 * I’m just a writer and I don’t have a WP on my pc. But on the other site I tried
   to post with embedded videos like in thenokiablog.com (wp also) and a mobileworldinnovation.
   com (blogger) it seems the videos are working. I’m only having problem with the
   current site (symbianworld.org)
 * Is there a need for a plug in to install that should my admin do? But why it 
   only happened to this site with wp.org.
 * Here’s what appeared on my Visual Tab and HTML : [http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/3403/wordpresserror.jpg](http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/3403/wordpresserror.jpg)
 * Preview (same on final):
 * [http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/9912/wordpresserror2.jpg](http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/9912/wordpresserror2.jpg)

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedding-videos-doesnt-work/#post-1576285)
 * Can the admin of the blog successfully embed videos?
 *  Thread Starter [Jade Bryan Jardinico](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ovijade/)
 * (@ovijade)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedding-videos-doesnt-work/#post-1576315)
 * [@macmanx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * Yes2. He can put embed videos easily. He is in Eu and I’m from Asia. I really
   don’t know the problem. We are using 2.8.4 wp version.
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedding-videos-doesnt-work/#post-1576415)
 * What’s your user role?
 *  Thread Starter [Jade Bryan Jardinico](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ovijade/)
 * (@ovijade)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedding-videos-doesnt-work/#post-1576457)
 * I don’t know the exact level. But I could see the admin drafts & posts..I can
   publish immediately without admin’s review, but I can’t add categories or edit
   it.
 *  [blueinstyle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blueinstyle/)
 * (@blueinstyle)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedding-videos-doesnt-work/#post-1576459)
 * WordPress by default removes certain tags from posts, such as <object>, <embed
   > etc for security reasons. Only administrators (or Super Admins for WP3 multi-
   blog) have the ability to post these type of tags. You’ll need to get admin privileges,
   or get a plugin that can generate video output, or a plugin that will skip the
   post tag filters.
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedding-videos-doesnt-work/#post-1576460)
 * It sounds like your user level is Author, and only Editors and Administrators
   can post unfiltered HTML, which pretty much means that you’ll never be able to
   embed a video with the actual embed code. Fortunately, WordPress now features
   support for oEmbed, so try posting just the URL of the video. See this for an
   example and more info:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds](http://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds)
 *  Thread Starter [Jade Bryan Jardinico](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ovijade/)
 * (@ovijade)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedding-videos-doesnt-work/#post-1576475)
 * posting the URL of the video doesn’t work. but on the previous blog it work. 
   we are using 2.8.4. Should the admin update it or just install plugin for that
   url posting?
 * [@blueinstyle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blueinstyle/)
    tnx for that
   info.
 *  Thread Starter [Jade Bryan Jardinico](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ovijade/)
 * (@ovijade)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedding-videos-doesnt-work/#post-1576476)
 * PS
 * I will ask the admin first regarding Embeds. Maybe just a settings.
 * Tnx again MacManX
    -Jade
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedding-videos-doesnt-work/#post-1576478)
 * oEmbed was introduced in WP 2.9, so you’ll need to upgrade to at least 2.9.2 
   or 3.0.
 * Your admin should consider upgrading anyway, since your version is full of publicly
   known security vulnerabilities.
 *  [drdflick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drdflick/)
 * (@drdflick)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedding-videos-doesnt-work/#post-1576638)
 * All the the videos that I had successfully embedded in my blog posts from jaycut.
   com, a free video editing site, are GONE from the posts.
 * For example:
 * [http://www.boulderdog.net/2011/01/12/sadie-bonks-kong-wobbler-doubletime-the-video/](http://www.boulderdog.net/2011/01/12/sadie-bonks-kong-wobbler-doubletime-the-video/)
 * You can see that the space were the video should be is blank.
 * However, on the ‘edit post’ page the html code for the video is in the body of
   the post, and in ‘view’ form a yellow square shows, just like it does for embedded
   YouTube videos.
 * I don’t have this problem with embedded YouTube videos.
 * What’s going on? Please help me fix it.
 * I am the administrator for the blog and the only author.
 * I’m using WordPress 3.0 (I’m pretty sure).
 *  [Chelsea Otakan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chexee/)
 * (@chexee)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedding-videos-doesnt-work/#post-1576639)
 * When you post the URL, make sure its on its own line.
 * If it still doesn’t work, try the embed shortcode:
 * `[embed]http://videourl.com[/embed]`
 *  [drdflick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drdflick/)
 * (@drdflick)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedding-videos-doesnt-work/#post-1576640)
 * Thank you for your reply.
 * I’m not sure I follow what your saying. Here’s the html code that I got off of
   jaycut.com for embedding the video. It worked just fine until recently.
 * <object classid=”clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000″ width=”520″ height
   =”415″ codebase=”[http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0″><param](http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0″><param)
   name=”bgcolor” value=”#ffffff” /><param name=”flashvars” value=”playerPath=http%
   3A%2F%2Fjaycut.com%2Fsites%2Fall%2Fthemes%2Fjaycut%2Fswf%2Fplayer.swf&imagePath
   =http%3A%2F%2Fjaycut.com%2Fcommunity%2Fmixes%2Fa47GtoJMo%2Fthumbnail-big.jpeg%
   3Fley0q0&videoPath=http%3A%2F%2Fjaycut.com%2Fcommunity%2Fmixes%2Fa47GtoJMo%2Fpreview.
   flv%3Fley0pr&isLocal=false&srcPath=http%3A%2F%2Fjaycut.com%2Fcontent%2Fsadie-
   bonks-kong-wobbler-doubletime” /><param name=”src” value=”[http://jaycut.com/sites/all/themes/jaycut/swf/player.swf&#8221](http://jaycut.com/sites/all/themes/jaycut/swf/player.swf&#8221);/
   ><param name=”allowfullscreen” value=”true” /><embed type=”application/x-shockwave-
   flash” width=”520″ height=”415″ src=”[http://jaycut.com/sites/all/themes/jaycut/swf/player.swf&#8221](http://jaycut.com/sites/all/themes/jaycut/swf/player.swf&#8221);
   allowfullscreen=”true” flashvars=”playerPath=http%3A%2F%2Fjaycut.com%2Fsites%
   2Fall%2Fthemes%2Fjaycut%2Fswf%2Fplayer.swf&imagePath=http%3A%2F%2Fjaycut.com%
   2Fcommunity%2Fmixes%2Fa47GtoJMo%2Fthumbnail-big.jpeg%3Fley0q0&videoPath=http%
   3A%2F%2Fjaycut.com%2Fcommunity%2Fmixes%2Fa47GtoJMo%2Fpreview.flv%3Fley0pr&isLocal
   =false&srcPath=http%3A%2F%2Fjaycut.com%2Fcontent%2Fsadie-bonks-kong-wobbler-doubletime”
   bgcolor=”#ffffff”></embed></object>
 *  [rethinkbz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rethinkbz/)
 * (@rethinkbz)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedding-videos-doesnt-work/#post-1576641)
 * **I’m having the same problem. **
 * I’m hosting my site at bluehost and have WordPress installed there, which shouldn’t
   be an issue, but that’s the background.
 * I simply want to embed videos (not my own) from YouTube into my posts; not into
   a widget.
 * **Action**: I tried the current iframe tag
    _Result_: WP comments it out if I
   go to visual mode for the editor. It does nothing if I stay in HTML
 * **Action**: I tried the old object/embed code.
    _Result_: code doesn’t change
   in the editor, but nothing appears in the post
 * **Action**: installed just about everything and in the end installed Viper’s 
   Video Quicktags. This puts a YouTube button in both the WYSIWYG and the HTML 
   editor.
    _Result_: It pastes the following into the editor, but nothing on the
   site:
 * [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/v/bFaee49YjMw[/youtube]
 * This really shouldn’t be this difficult, but then again, I’m coming from one 
   of those starter site builders that embeds everything for you.
 * HELP! And much thanks 🙂
 *  [bh_WP_fan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bh_wp_fan/)
 * (@bh_wp_fan)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedding-videos-doesnt-work/#post-1576642)
 * Try the following:
 * [YouTube Plugins](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=youtube&sort=)
 *  [rethinkbz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rethinkbz/)
 * (@rethinkbz)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedding-videos-doesnt-work/#post-1576643)
 * I had tried all of these, so I started deactivating them, as well as other plug-
   ins. After deactivating several, I realized the videos started playing.
 * Some plug-ins clash it would seem…

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