Title: Video shortcodes?
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Video shortcodes?

 *  Resolved [meaghanhealy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meaghanhealy/)
 * (@meaghanhealy)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-shortcodes/)
 * Hi,
 * My WordPress is [http://www.digitalcanvas.co](http://www.digitalcanvas.co). We
   post Vimeo videos using shortcodes with commentary. We started to use Crosspostr
   to transfer our posts over to our new Tumblr, [http://www.digitalcanvasvfx.tumblr.com](http://www.digitalcanvasvfx.tumblr.com).
   The shortcodes are not transferring over – we would like for the video to appear
   within the Tumblr post, but right now you only see the commentary. Is there any
   way to set that up with Crosspostr?
 * I am not the creator of the blog, only a contributor, so if this is an issue 
   of a custom blog setup, is there anyway I can customize it to work with Crosspostr?
   Or will I have to upload the videos to Tumblr manually in order for them to show
   up within the post?
 * Thanks!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-crosspostr/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-crosspostr/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Meitar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meitar/)
 * (@meitar)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-shortcodes/#post-6353588)
 * :\ Sadly, Tumblr Crosspostr can’t recognize shortcodes from other plugins as 
   specific content types. It can only recognize the embed code that comes from 
   Vimeo (or YouTube or whatever) itself. This is a limitation of WordPress shortcodes,
   not Tumblr Crosspostr.
 * My suggestion at the moment would be to use the native embed code provided by
   Vimeo, not a shortcode. This will work both on WordPress and Tumblr.
 * If that’s not possible, you will need to customize your blog by writing a pre-
   processor function to ensure that the shortcodes you are using are expanded to
   HTML before Tumblr Crosspostr begins processing the post. This requires some 
   programming knowledge and administrator access to the blog, however, so it would
   be something that you’d have to talk to your blog admins about.
 *  Thread Starter [meaghanhealy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meaghanhealy/)
 * (@meaghanhealy)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-shortcodes/#post-6353640)
 * Ok, that makes perfect sense. Thanks for the response!
 *  [Gingerxoxo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gingerxoxo/)
 * (@gingerxoxo)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-shortcodes/#post-6353716)
 * how do I get a video to show up ?

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