You haven’t needed shortcodes to embed YouTube videos for quite some time: https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/youtube-embed/
I’m curious if it works for you without the shortcode, by just pasting the URL into a YouTube Block as detailed in the support doc linked to above.
If you’re using the Classic Editor, you still don’t need shortcodes, you can just paste the URL on any blank link to create an embed.
Thank you, James. I know about that block.
Edit: Pasting the link into classic editor does not create an embed with the no-cookie URL (which works in the YouTube Block).
The pages/posts are written in the classic editor. Changing them to block editor would require some effort, changing lots of pages.
Is the Youtube shortcode no longer supported?
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This reply was modified 1 year ago by
tobiasber.
You can also just paste the YouTube video URL onto an empty line to embed it in the Classic Editor, no short code needed.
Does that work when you try it?
Pasting the link into classic editor works with “normal YT-Links” but does not create an embed with the no-cookie URL (which works in the YouTube Block).
Is the Youtube shortcode no longer supported in general? … Or is it an error on our website?
The YouTube shortcode should still work, I just wanted to test with the modern embed flow just to make sure it wasn’t a problem specific to shortcodes.
But, that is interesting. YouTube views their embeds as a great way to collect data all over the web, and I wonder if they’ve shut down embedding over the no-cookie option because of it, maybe even related to their agressive anti-adblock push.
Can you test this by creating a normal .html page on your server and adding YouTube’s standard embed code with no-cookie? (of course, if it’s not even possible to create a standard embed code with no-cookie, than that would explain it, as it would mean YouTube has shut down that possibility for embeds)
Thank you very much…
i ve tested the html file with no-cookie embed. it works
no cookie works in the youTube block
i ve tested the shortcode on different wordpress websites:
WordPress.com: Shortcode works
Selfhosted WordPress (same Provider): Shortcode does not work on three websites but does work on the fourth (a testing website which has no SSL) this is the only difference it could make out.
On the other website, the WP version and plugins had not been updated in some time… so the problem with the shortcode is probably not cause by recent updates.
Probably the only way is to change all the pages/posts to the block editor
the youtube block works, even with no-cookie…. but the rel=0 (to prevent showing Videos from other channels) will not work. Videos in the youtube block will present other videos (thumbnails) when paused and at the end
Ah, it appears the lack of support for rel=0 is intentional.
Here’s the latest: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/41012#comment:2
They ve changed, what rel=0 does: https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters?hl=en#autoplay
“After the change, you will not be able to disable related videos. Instead, if the rel parameter is set to 0, related videos will come from the same channel as the video that was just played.”
I ll need to test embeds in iframe, not in the YouTube block
If you can make the embed work in an iframe on a static HTML file, but not in the YouTube blog, please do file this by following the steps at https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/testing/reporting-bugs/
the youtube block works, but not with rel=0. That parameter is not respected
Edit: I mean, the youtube block will display an embedded video. But the function of rel=0 will not be respected. So the embedded video will show related videos from other channels. which is not always desired
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This reply was modified 1 year ago by tobiasber.
As you said you tried before, please try an HTML embed for the YouTube iframe including rel=0 on a static HTML page.
If that doesn’t work, the issue is on YouTube’s end, and they’ve locked down rel=0 again (either intentionally or accidentally).
If that does work, file a bug report for WordPress following these steps: https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/testing/reporting-bugs/
Please make sure that you reference https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/41012#comment:2 and use your static HTML test page as proof that rel=0 should still work.
Embedding via iframe in Block Editor works with rel=0 and works with No-cookie.
It looks like a developer has already replied to you at https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/59936 so please continue there if you have any further questions.
