Rich text area (embeded) video not showing

OK, make sure you are not “embedding” the video. This means no <object> or <iframe> tags, just the plain text URL to the video, such as is provided in YouTube with the “share” button.

Now, if that doesn’t work, it’s probably because you have another plugin installed that is preventing it, because we are relying on the built-in WordPress video embedding function, and that is sometimes overridden by media plugins.

You must have “WordPress Auto Format” enabled for it to work. This may have other effects because this also allows any plugin that changes content to affect the rich text field of the plugin. You may have to disable or change the configuration of such plugins to get things working like you want.

For instance, your Google ads probably shouldn’t target just any content area, but a specific location in the template…that way you’ll have more control over how they show up. How you do this this depends on the capabilities of the plugin you are using to place your Google ads.

I am not very happy at all… It is working with all the plugins that I use for other things off…
BUT:
OR:
My Google adds are more than three times on the page (= forbidden!)
OR:
I cannot use the TinyMCE plugin, or other usefull plugins for tables…

Why did it work before? What happend? Can you give me some support to somehow manually make it work for me? With NOT strip <object>code or the shortcode [youtube]from your plugin?

Thanks,
Anna-Karina

Hi Anna-Karina,

OK, I understand your frustration, and I’m going to help. The problem is that I had to add some code to protect the rich text areas from malicious code. I can’t put out a plugin that is a security risk. The old version didn’t have this protection because I didn’t know better.

I am going to tell you how to modify the plugin so you can use the video embeds you want to use. If you make this change, it is at your own risk.

You need to use the plugin editor, select the Participants Database plugin, and find the file named “participants-database.php”

On line 1399, you’ll find the this: (you can get to it by using your browser search)

$new_value = wp_kses(stripslashes($post[$column_atts->name]), $allowedposttags);

Change this to:

$new_value = stripslashes($post[$column_atts->name]);

Now, turn off the “WordPress Auto Format” setting and your Google ads won’t appear in the rich text fields. This also means that shortcodes won’t be processed in those fields, and you won’t have automatic paragraphs.

If you want to leave that on, you will need to configure your Google Ads plugin so it doesn’t put ads in every rich text field.

Ohw XNAU… how very very helpfull! I appreciate it a lot!

Well… I spent the whole day on your earlier suggestions. Puzzling (on my testsite) what worked for me I decided that the PDB plugin is too important to let go ??
(I have over 600 record with secondhand stores.)

So I:
-added the Google adds directly in my theme (
-said farewell to the , Google-adds, TinyMCE and video plugins
-replaced in the pdb records embedded code with the plain youtube URL
-some other finetuning

And I had it working just fine half an hour ago ??

Have to think it over, what’s the best… It is a security risk indeed. And now you (and I) know better ?? so maybe I’ll keep the secure solution. (and remember the changes when updating!!)

Hope you understand my English?

Again: thanks a LOT!
Grtz, Anna-Karina

BTW: I use Dreamweaver for edditing ??

Glad to hear you got things working!