Shortcode embeds not working properly in Jetpack

Hi,

What happened is you remove the &w=520 from the shortcode and activate Jetpack? Without jetpack active, it looks like something on your site is taking the [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ3Mt9yiz6k&w=520] and turning it into [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ3Mt9yiz6k<span class="amp">&</span>w=520]

I’d like to make sure that’s not happening before Jetpack tries to render the shortcode.

If it still fails, is there anything in your site’s error logs, usually found either in your hosting provider’s control panel or in an error_log folder when accessing your site via FTP.

One thing I’m working on is there is a PHP “notice” involving the YouTube shortcode, but servers should be set to continue processing the content of your page and ignore it. If it still happens without the &w=520, there may be a connection there.

Thanks for your patience and for helping troubleshoot this further.

Cheers!

That would be the WP-Typography plugin I use that’s adding the extra <span class=”amp”> tag to style ampersands. But it only adds that if shortcode embeds are turned off in Jetpack.

Just to make sure there wasn’t a conflict, there’s an option to turn off ampersand styling in WP-Typography. So I turned it off, but the same problem still occurs.

The problem as it stands is…

1. Jetpack shortcode embeds turned on, and the page doesn’t load properly, as per this link (slightly different to the first link, the page doesn’t load beyond the closing </head> tag): https://bananasaboutmovies.com/2012/12/09/trailer-checklist-oblivion/

2. Jetpack shortcode embeds turned off, and the whole page loads, but the shortcodes are rendered as plain text.

Hi,

One last thing to try, can you insert the video by just using the URL instead of the shortcode?

WordPress now will automatically embed a YouTube video when you paste in the URL on a line by itself (not linked to YouTube), e.g.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ3Mt9yiz6k

I think I’ve isolated the issue, though surprising that it would kill the rendering. I’m testing the theory later tonight.

Cheers!

Yep, the video can be embedded by just adding the link in a post. I seem to remember the reason I was using shortcode embeds was to control the width, and so that it showed up in subscription emails. So it would be nice if I could keep using them.

I think I figured it out. You can follow along with the bug report at https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/issues/930

Our function that adds in information about your embedded video into the meta tags on your site was expecting a certain function name, which we didn’t have and the code didn’t expect not to be there.

I’m sorry for the hassle, but thank you very much for your patience and helping me track down the issue.

Cheers!

Many thanks! The latest Jetpack update has now fixed things! ??