Video Insertion in WP 3.3 – Options Please!

  • While I’m appreciative of many of the enhancements in 3.3, I have serious issues with the lack of flexibility in inserting video. Previous versions allowed for a direct iframe or object imbed directly within the post HTML editor… Why is this option no longer available??? The Plug-In now offered is extremely limiting, and the author’s Support pages are far from helpful (Seriously, have you looked at these -and some of the phrasing that’s used?) Inbeds posted using 3.3 are archaic for YouTube, and lack utilization of YouTube’s latest rendering capabilities. Flash inbeds are entirely too restricting -no matter HOW the settings are tweaked. So here’s a few suggestions: 1) Please find a Plug-In developer who has a much better grasp on this. 2) Allow for manual iframe and object inbeds in the post HTML editor. 3) Make BOTH options available (auto AND manual inbeds) to appeal to BOTH novice AND seasoned site authors. Up until now, things have been great -however this issue in 3.3 has taken things in a backwards direction and is very much disliked! Thanks for your time.

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    That’s been gone since 3.2, actually, due to licensing issues with the FLV.

    You can still use oembed’s with Youtube. Paste the URL of the video, in, done (and if you view source on the rendered page, it’ll be iframed).

    I have successfully first used Youtube’s manual iframe embeds in WP 3.2.1 and 3.3 and then the super-sweet automatical oEmbed. With the last I just copy-paste the youtu.be URL to my post and it’s embedded. Made my own plugin to support options for this, for example to not display Youtube logo, video annotations and related videos. Thinking of releasing it after adding the options menu in WP’s admin panel.

    Apart from that the only thing I’ve been left wanting while using WP 3.3 and Video Thumbnails is the support for embedding https Youtube links in WP core. This is not an issue yet, but if we later allow users to surf on https they will get warnings when the page contains non-https elements.

    Manual embedding is as easy as this:

    1. On a Youtube video page, click Share and then Embed
    2. Copy-paste the given code in your post

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Manual embedding is even easier.

    1. Go to youtube and copy the URL

    2. Paste that into your post.

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