Flickr and Youtube troubleshoot

  • I cannot embedd a youtube url into a post and I am the administrator. It was brought to my atatention by another user who is an editor.
    I am the webmaster for oxfamireland.org

    I was going to download the WordPress MU 3.1.3 but the localised version link is broken!!

    So can you tell me why I am unable to add youtube url.
    Here is what I doing in HTML mode
    pasting link into post
    https://youtu.be/W91ZaXXRr7k
    save, and the link appears, no video is embedded.

    So I try another method
    <iframe width=”560″ height=”349″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/W91ZaXXRr7k&#8221; frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>

    again in HTML mode, save, this time, the HTML code disappears

    The same thing happened with embedding flickr slideshow.
    Can you please advise

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  • Thread Starter oxfamireland

    (@oxfamireland)

    oh and by the way this is a new issue, editors where able to do all of the above and now they are not and as I have done nothing new I’m really confused as to why this has happened

    tigtog

    (@tigtoggmailcom)

    Have you tried with the full youtube page link rather than the shortlink?

    i.e.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=***ID-string***

    Thread Starter oxfamireland

    (@oxfamireland)

    ok so latest development
    paste video url into html, save draft, view post – PERFECT
    make and edit say for example adding content above or below video , save, view post, now it is an url not embedded video….

    Thread Starter oxfamireland

    (@oxfamireland)

    went into tiny mc advance and unticked
    Stop removing the <p> and
    tags when saving and show them in the HTML editor

    seems to allow me to edit that content area after I have uplaoded without making the video disappear. hope this is the last of it

    can you tell me why the Flickr slideshow embed does not work either?
    Installed slickr flickr but a lot or restyling to be done as it has a set width, if you go pro you can edit width, is there a simplier way?

    WordPress removes iframe when you switch from “HTML” to “Visual” tab in your editor because of the security reasons.

    1. You may paste Youtube or Vimeo link into post but sometimes it does not convert into video corectly.
    2. You may use WordPress default shortcode: [embed width="500" height="400"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQL34ZiCNVA[/embed].
    3. If you simply want to embed iframe into post you can install iframe plugin and paste this shortcode into content: [iframe width="640" height="480" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/3261363"]

    More info about embeding iframe into post content.

    Thread Starter oxfamireland

    (@oxfamireland)

    Hi webvitaly
    thanks so much for your post.
    Just noticed something else happening on my wordpres MU site.
    I can no longer see page attributes I can no longer select a template type which I could do last week, this is crucial to the site preformance as we have different side navigations depending on what section of the site you are in. eg fundraising or campaigning.
    Have you come accross this, don’t know how I could have disabled this function

    To oxfamireland:
    I will model and imagine your situation (I could be wrong).
    If you have only one default template (for example: index.php or page.php) than you can not see the template chooser.
    If you will create new page template than you will see template chooser with options.
    If you updated your theme than all your changes were lost and your new template will be deleted. If you need to change something in the theme you need to create child theme and make all your changes in child theme. After updating parent theme all your changes in child theme will not be lost.

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