My codes keep disappearing

I followed the instructions per the link you gave to reset the plugins folder by FTP. I used my Filezilla. That was the more familiar option to me.

Can you insert any links into your posts?
Can you provide a simple of this video code that you’re trying to use (please use the pastebin if it’s more than a few lines long)?

Yes, I can insert links. It only effects codes that I am trying to embed. I have been using youtube video codes like this:
<iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="425" height="349" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xsfKpnHEk1A" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen></iframe>

Have you tried just embedding the bare video url?

What do you mean? This is the code they give when you click “embed” on the video.

See Embeds.

Ok, that worked for the youtube videos, thank you! But it did not work for a code like this: <iframe src=”https://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=finhopwit-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&m=amazon&f=ifr&md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&asins=B000W15BI8&#8243; style=”width:120px;height:240px;” scrolling=”no” marginwidth=”0″ marginheight=”0″ frameborder=”0″></iframe>

I’ve been having the same problem with my blog. The only plug-in I’m using is Hello Dolly.

The disappearing code is a youtube embed link. When I switch from HTML view to Visual, and then back to HTML, the embeded is gone.

Hi Je777, I found a trick for the youtube videos. While on youtube, when you click on the embed button, 4 options with check boxes come up under the embed code. If you click on the last one that says, “Use old embed code”, that should fix the problem of the code disappearing from your post. It has worked for me, and you can still adjust the size of the video to fit your post needs, unlike embedding the bare url, as suggested above.

But for any administrators, I do still have a problem with other codes disappearing. I embed codes from amazon.com a lot when I am referring to a certain product. Those codes keep disappearing. I have not been able to find a way to make them stay, so any help on that would be appreciated.

Thanks for the tip, Alexis. I tried it and it worked. I think the culprit is the iframe tag. there’s something about it that WordPress doesn’t like. Maybe they’ll fix it in an update.

Thanks again.

No problem.

I’m having the same issue – I use audio acrobat to host my audio and they use iframes for accessing their site. WordPress simply doesn’t like iframes (this according to audioacrobat’s website) and will simply erase the code. Very annoying.

I do find that if I enter the code as the very last thing I do, save it and close the page or post – the iframe code is still there and works. But if I have to reopen the post – for ANY reason, even just to add a comma or correct spelling. The next save deletes the code. I’ve been going to older saves and copying the code from there – but this is a real pain in the butt.

Is there a plugin or workaround? I can create a download link for the mp3, no problem. But I want to give people a way to just play the audio recording while in the post.

Looking for a good workaround for this. And ideally not one where I upload the mp3 to the site and use a player plugin – but if that’s the only fix, I can do that.

Yes, I’m having the same problem. I’m looking for a solution. I’ll return to this thread if I find one.

Don’t use the Visual editor if you want to put HTML code in there. The Visual editor (TinyMCE) rewrites HTML code.

The HTML editor is there for a reason; if you want to use raw HTML, use that editor instead.

Otto, even when you put the codes in the HTML editor, they still disappear if you save it and then go back to edit. It’s like Je77 said, the iframe tags don’t work with WordPress. The creators need to fix that.