Dave Duggan

I also wonder if some of the plugins I was using are no longer relevant anyway.

ex: smartyoutube

I should not need any plugin to embed a youtube video

So to get this working am I looking at a fresh install of wp after backing up and then restoring?

wow

but, if I can’t get this basic functionality working then wp is not working for me

I have not tried plugins folder reset or re-upload yet.

I am doing one at time to see what works and also to limit the effort require to resolve the issue.

thank you for your help.

Now I will look at the instructs to reset plugin folder

I just deactivated all plugins and retried – still no go so far

I also notice that I can not unlink the youtube link in the post – the link has to not be a link in order to work in wordpress post