Not working on Multisites automatically

No idea what is happening there I’m afraid @dogel, normally it does work on youtube links (I use it like that myself). Maybe a plugin conflict of some kind?

As I described, I tried to deactive the only plugin that possibly could be a conflict (Easy FancyBox), which didn’t make a difference.

And it also can’t be a conflict with the theme – I wrote the theme myself, and it has no Youtube-related functionality in it whatsoever.

Had a look at the HTML source, looks like WordPress oEmbed is somehow parsing the link iso LYTE, maybe try disabling oEmbed?

Hmm – I tried that, but now the link is displayed as pure text (in the editor the video is displayed, but not on the page itself)

(FWIW: Another post on the parent website for which I changed the code to “httpv” still is displayed as expected: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCqe93FtiZU)

Is there any difference how this works on the main vs child sites? I mean; does https-youtube links work on the main site?

No, https-Links also don’t work as expected on the main site (i.e. a normal Youtube embed is shown, and when I disable oEmbed, the link is shown as pure text).

Actually, I don’t really know whether it has to do with the multisite setup…

FWIW: I am using “Disable Gutenberg”, “TinyMCE Advanced” and “TinyMCE Custom Styles”, but I suppose all this shouldn’t affect the display on the page itself, but only the editor. (?)

The only next step I can think of is disabling other plugins one at a time and even briefly switching themes to a stock wordpress core one dogel, I have no other ideas.

Okay, I found that this has nothing to do with multisite or not – I tested it on another website of mine (in a private post – can’t post the link here), and it also doesn’t work.

So i am going to check all the other plugins…

• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by dogel.

It seems I found the weak spot (although unfortunately no solution yet):

As I wrote, I am using the “TinyMCE Advanced” plugin. Now, when I deactivate it, edit the post and save it, Youtube Lyte works as expected.

When I activate “TinyMCE Advanced” again and do *not* edit the post, Youtube Lyte still works as expected.

However, as soon as I change anything in that post (with “TinyMCE Advanced” active), Youtube Lyte again fails to work.

Any idea what to do?

Another step forward:

It’s due to the “Keep paragraph tags in the Classic block and the Classic Editor” option in TinyMCE Advanced. If I deactivate it, “Youtube Lyte” works as expected.

Unfortunately this is one of the main reasons why I use this plugin – I want to be able to edit HTML, including <p> tags and classes I add to them…

Does “Youtube Lyte” work differently if a Youtube link is wrapped in a <p> tag or not?

LYTE only treats YT-links of they’re at the start of a line, so

<p>
https://youtu.be/xyz
</p>

would work but

<p>https://youtu.be/xyz</p>

not.

Ah, now the reason is clear!

So if I want to keep my settings I have to “train” my clients to use a line break (shift + return) instead of a new paragraph (return) when they insert a Youtube link. Hmm – for some of them this is going to be tough… ??

Anyway – thank you very much for all your quick responses!

well, if you want your clients not to have to worry, you could create a little filter (hooking into lyte_content_preparse) to remove <p> in front of youtube links? ??

hmm – I am not so sure how to accomplish that…

But anyway: Why are Youtube links only treated at the beginning of a line – is there a technical reason? What difference would it make always converting them, regardless if they are at the beginning of a line or not?

this should work;

add_filter('lyte_content_preparse','lyte_remove_leadingp');
function lyte_remove_leadingp($in){
  $out = preg_replace('#^<p>(http(?:s)?://(?:www.)?youtu)#','$1',$in);
  return $out;
}

re. reason; because users may wish to add a youtube URL in their content without expecting it to be rendered as a video ??