Pat Hawks

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.

Yeah, I’d reccomend always using WordPress’s built in media support for embedding videos.

If you use WordPress’s built-in embed support, you can use Better YouTube Embeds to make the videos viewable on a mobile device.

Once you’ve installed the plugin, just add the URL of a YouTube video to it’s own line on a post, and WordPress will replace the URL with the embed code for the video. This code will work on desktop browsers and mobile browsers like iPhone/iPad/Android.

You must install Better YouTube Embeds to get YouTube videos to work on the iPad/iPhone

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.

You could also try Better YouTube Embeds

It allows you to use the standard [embed] shortcode to embed YouTube videos, but will automatically grab the iframe code instead of the Flash code.

Yes, I was trying to activate the plugin after downloading from the Plugins Directory.
Activating from the Admin->Plugins page worked fine.

I’m glad you found something that works for you.

I believe the problem is just a settings issue.
In your WordPress dashboard, under the Settings menu, go to Media settings.
Make sure that Auto-embeds is enabled.

Sorry this isn’t mentioned in the documentation. Working to fix that right now.

In your WordPress dashboard, under the Settings menu, go to Media settings.
Make sure that Auto-embeds is enabled.

Sorry this isn’t mentioned in the documentation. Working to fix that right now.

Because of the way the plugin detects PDF URLs, the address must end in .pdf

What is the URL of the document you are trying to embed? Perhaps we can make this work some other way

I have just updated the plugin to add wmode=transparent to all YouTube embeds, as I can’t think of a single case where this would not be the desired behavior.

As you could probably see when you were looking at the code, it isn’t quite as simple as just passing a specific paramater to the embed code, as the embed code is 100% generated by YouTube. The only thing the plugin does is tell WordPress to ask YouTube for the iframe code instead of the Flash code.

Now, when YouTube returns the iframe embed code, I have added a filter that tells WordPress to add wmode=transparent before it does anything else with the code (like cache it or display it).

The updated version is now available to download.
If you find this works for you, please consider rating my plugin, as I take a lot of pride in my work.

I don’t believe the Google Docs viewer supports a print button. If somebody knows of a workaround, I’d certainly be willing to implement it.