Stripping Youtube Code

  • Howdy… it seems that wordpress sometimes strips video embed and iframe code from posts while I’m composing them. It doesn’t happen all the time… I think it only happens if I “preview” then come back to edit. It may be related to the author’s level of privileges since I haven’t seen it when logged in as admin. Is this a known bug?

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  • Well there is the cause why we need to have “Awareness programmes” for so many things in this world ??

    Thread Starter nickaster

    (@nickaster)

    Yeah, well that’s going to do nothing. Not to mention the fact that older post that have embed code could get destroyed too. I just went back to a post a couple months old and the video is gone now. *%#*)%#)%*)#*%)#*%#

    This is totally unacceptable and WP should have an option to allow the embed. I don’t care if it’s incorrect code, it works and this is totally screwing people with older posts and lots of writers.

    Thread Starter nickaster

    (@nickaster)

    Dare I ask …. does anyone know how to size the video if I wanted to? Just slapping in the URL seem to automatically will the whole post width. What if I wanted it smaller?

    To change the size, just wrap the URL in the [embed] shortcode and give it a height and width attribute.
    Alternatively, you can change the size for all embeded videos in the ** Settings -> Media ** page in the dashboard.

    For YouTube embeds using the iframe embed code, you can use the plugin Better YouTube Embeds. It simply tells WordPress to use YouTube’s iframe oembed endpoint instead of the Flash oembed endpoint.
    This means, you won’t have to use any new shortcodes or special syntax. All YouTube videos embeded using the standard embed syntax will get the new iframe player.

    Thread Starter nickaster

    (@nickaster)

    Interesting… that helps, thanks!

    Still, the problem with all this is that inexperienced authors are NEVER going to understand it and it leaves me, the editor, having to constantly fix people’s code. It’s hard enough getting people to understand just pasting whatever youtube spits out…. sigh

    No argument there, things could certainly be easier for novice users.

    If you have any ideas, I’d be willing to work with you on a plugin.

    Thread Starter nickaster

    (@nickaster)

    Seriously, F*** this. Why can’t there at least be some kind of legacy here??? I get dozens of guest posters a week and inevitably some guy emails me wondering why his video is not in the post. Yeah, they should know better, but you know that’s never going to happen. When I try to edit these posts it still takes me forever to even figure out how to format the ***ing YouTube URL… this is not straightforward, and should never be called a feature. I know I’m not the only one!

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