Title: Not working on Multisites automatically
Last modified: May 30, 2019
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# Not working on Multisites automatically
* Resolved [dogel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dogel/)
* (@dogel)
* [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-on-multisites-automatically/)
* Hi,
* I am sorry to say, but the plugin doesn’t really work in a satisfying way on
a multisite of mine. The link I added leads to a post on a sub-site of that multi-
site (video is at the end of the post).
* I can only get it to work if I change the “https” part of the youtube link to“
httpv” in the **code editor**. But it is not possible to make that change in
the visual editor, which is the only thing I can expect from my clients (i.e.
clicking on the video and choosing “edit”) – the saved code will always switch
back to https, and with https the plugin doesn’t work although “Also act on normal
YouTube links and iframes?” is activated.
* Note: The plugin “Easy FancyBox” (which _can_ handle YouTube links) is also installed,
but first its Youtube options are deactivated, and secondly, I deactivated it
for testing purposes (cleared all cache) and Youtube Lyte still wouldn’t work.
* Any chance to get that working for regular Youtube links?
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* Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
* (@optimizingmatters)
* [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-on-multisites-automatically/#post-11588861)
* No idea what is happening there I’m afraid [@dogel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dogel/),
normally it does work on youtube links (I use it like that myself). Maybe a plugin
conflict of some kind?
* Thread Starter [dogel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dogel/)
* (@dogel)
* [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-on-multisites-automatically/#post-11588880)
* As I described, I tried to deactive the only plugin that possibly _could_ be
a conflict (Easy FancyBox), which didn’t make a difference.
* And it also can’t be a conflict with the theme – I wrote the theme myself, and
it has _no_ Youtube-related functionality in it whatsoever.
* Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
* (@optimizingmatters)
* [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-on-multisites-automatically/#post-11588923)
* Had a look at the HTML source, looks like WordPress oEmbed is somehow parsing
the link iso LYTE, maybe try [disabling oEmbed](https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/202496/disable-automatic-oembed-of-a-youtube-url-within-the-content)?
* Thread Starter [dogel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dogel/)
* (@dogel)
* [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-on-multisites-automatically/#post-11589005)
* Hmm – I tried that, but now the link is displayed as pure text (in the editor
the video is displayed, but not on the page itself)
* (FWIW: Another post on the parent website for which I changed the code to “httpv”
still is displayed as expected: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCqe93FtiZU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCqe93FtiZU))
* Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
* (@optimizingmatters)
* [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-on-multisites-automatically/#post-11589120)
* Is there any difference how this works on the main vs child sites? I mean; does
https-youtube links work on the main site?
* Thread Starter [dogel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dogel/)
* (@dogel)
* [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-on-multisites-automatically/#post-11589155)
* No, https-Links also don’t work as expected on the main site (i.e. a normal Youtube
embed is shown, and when I disable oEmbed, the link is shown as pure text).
* Actually, I don’t really know whether it has to do with the multisite setup…
* FWIW: I am using “Disable Gutenberg”, “TinyMCE Advanced” and “TinyMCE Custom
Styles”, but I suppose all this shouldn’t affect the display on the page itself,
but only the editor. (?)
* Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
* (@optimizingmatters)
* [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-on-multisites-automatically/#post-11589177)
* The only next step I can think of is disabling other plugins one at a time and
even briefly switching themes to a stock wordpress core one dogel, I have no
other ideas.
* Thread Starter [dogel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dogel/)
* (@dogel)
* [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-on-multisites-automatically/#post-11589361)
* Okay, I found that this has nothing to do with multisite or not – I tested it
on another website of mine (in a private post – can’t post the link here), and
it also doesn’t work.
* So i am going to check all the other plugins…
- This reply was modified 7 years ago by [dogel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dogel/).
* Thread Starter [dogel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dogel/)
* (@dogel)
* [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-on-multisites-automatically/#post-11589715)
* It seems I found the weak spot (although unfortunately no solution yet):
* As I wrote, I am using the “TinyMCE Advanced” plugin. Now, when I deactivate
it, edit the post and save it, Youtube Lyte works as expected.
* When I activate “TinyMCE Advanced” again and do *not* edit the post, Youtube
Lyte still works as expected.
* However, as soon as I change anything in that post (with “TinyMCE Advanced” active),
Youtube Lyte again fails to work.
* Any idea what to do?
* Thread Starter [dogel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dogel/)
* (@dogel)
* [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-on-multisites-automatically/#post-11590018)
* Another step forward:
* It’s due to the “Keep paragraph tags in the Classic block and the Classic Editor”
option in TinyMCE Advanced. If I deactivate it, “Youtube Lyte” works as expected.
* Unfortunately this is one of the main reasons why I use this plugin – I want
to be able to edit HTML, including tags and classes I add to them…
* Does “Youtube Lyte” work differently if a Youtube link is wrapped in a
tag
or not?
* Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
* (@optimizingmatters)
* [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-on-multisites-automatically/#post-11590052)
* LYTE only treats YT-links of they’re at the start of a line, so
* ```
https://youtu.be/xyz
```
* would work but
* ```
https://youtu.be/xyz
```
* not.
* Thread Starter [dogel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dogel/)
* (@dogel)
* [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-on-multisites-automatically/#post-11590105)
* Ah, now the reason is clear!
* So if I want to keep my settings I have to “train” my clients to use a line break(
shift + return) instead of a new paragraph (return) when they insert a Youtube
link. Hmm – for some of them this is going to be tough… 😉
* Anyway – thank you very much for all your quick responses!
* Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
* (@optimizingmatters)
* [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-on-multisites-automatically/#post-11590942)
* well, if you want your clients not to have to worry, you could create a little
filter (hooking into `lyte_content_preparse`) to remove `` in front of youtube
links? 🙂
* Thread Starter [dogel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dogel/)
* (@dogel)
* [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-on-multisites-automatically/#post-11591786)
* hmm – I am not so sure how to accomplish that…
* But anyway: Why are Youtube links only treated at the beginning of a line – is
there a technical reason? What difference would it make _always_ converting them,
regardless if they are at the beginning of a line or not?
* Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
* (@optimizingmatters)
* [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-on-multisites-automatically/#post-11592406)
* this should work;
* ```
add_filter('lyte_content_preparse','lyte_remove_leadingp');
function lyte_remove_leadingp($in){
$out = preg_replace('#^
(http(?:s)?://(?:www.)?youtu)#','$1',$in);
return $out;
}
```
* re. reason; because users may wish to add a youtube URL in their content without
expecting it to be rendered as a video 🙂
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