Title: HTML5 Youtube not embedding
Last modified: August 31, 2016

---

# HTML5 Youtube not embedding

 *  [napnyeng](https://wordpress.org/support/users/napnyeng/)
 * (@napnyeng)
 * [9 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html5-youtube-not-embedding/)
 * I’ve tried several ways and plugins trying to embed a youtube video. The only
   way I was able to get it to work was this way
 * `[youtube_video id="QOnSi7k7oeA"]`
    as shown on this site:
 * [http://lasheson5th.com/media/](http://lasheson5th.com/media/)
 * Which uses flash. Every other way that uses HTML5 either leaves a blank space
   where the video should be, or posts the link. When I use the visual editor, the
   video shows in the box, but not when I publish or preview.
 * This is a page that I inherited from someone else, so maybe some sort of CSS 
   is blocking it? I have disabled all plugins, and it still doesn’t work.
 * I’ve just used the link, tried [embed], tried shortcode, etc. Same goes for Vimeo.
   I am using the Avada theme. I am not doing it wrong, so something is preventing
   the embedding. Any Ideas where to start looking?

Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)

 *  [The API Guys](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pbarthmaier/)
 * (@pbarthmaier)
 * [9 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html5-youtube-not-embedding/#post-7386076)
 * Javascript would be my first guess, but even before looking at that I would disable
   plugins and check to see that it’s working properly. Then, assuming it’s working,
   I’d slowly activate plugins one by one, each time checking if you’re embedding
   still works. If you find that a plugin is causing the trouble write to the plugin
   author, let them know about it and see if they can provide a solution.
 *  Thread Starter [napnyeng](https://wordpress.org/support/users/napnyeng/)
 * (@napnyeng)
 * [9 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html5-youtube-not-embedding/#post-7386254)
 * Thanks Paul,
 * I’ve already tried disabling plugins, like I noted above. Any other ideas or 
   suggestions? I think it somehow has to do with the Fusion / Avada theme, but 
   not sure where to start.
 *  Thread Starter [napnyeng](https://wordpress.org/support/users/napnyeng/)
 * (@napnyeng)
 * [9 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html5-youtube-not-embedding/#post-7386256)
 * Here is an example page.
 * [http://lasheson5th.com/video/](http://lasheson5th.com/video/)
 * I have embedded video 3 ways. I see no video, but can hear audio. I am running
   my own Ubuntu web server.
 * here is what is in my text editor
 * `[youtube id=”QOnSi7k7oeA” width=”960″ height=”540″ autoplay=”yes” ‘api_params
   =”&rel=0″ class=””][/youtube]
 * ‘[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOnSi7k7oeA[/embed]
 * ‘[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOnSi7k7oeA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOnSi7k7oeA)
 * The strange part is, is that sometimes it works when I reload the browser.
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [9 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html5-youtube-not-embedding/#post-7386259)
 * Your theme needs an update.
 * Specifically, the main.min.js file has errors in it. The code with the errors
   looks like this:
 * `...a:not([href=#]...`
 * Contact the author of the theme, get the fixes from them.
 * More info on this problem:
 * [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/read-this-first-wordpress-45-master-list?replies=7#post-8271654](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/read-this-first-wordpress-45-master-list?replies=7#post-8271654)
 * Note that yes, that error will prevent the JS from running properly, which is
   why your YouTube videos are not displaying. The iframes are hidden by default,
   by the theme, and it uses JS code to cause them to show up again. When the JS
   does not run, the code to make them appear does not run.
 * Get an updated version of the theme. Only fix.

Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)

The topic ‘HTML5 Youtube not embedding’ is closed to new replies.

## Tags

 * [embed](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/embed/)
 * [flash](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/flash/)
 * [html5](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/html5/)
 * [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/)
 * 4 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html5-youtube-not-embedding/#post-7386259)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics