Comments on: Wordpress: Solving The YouTube Problem

By: Colleen

Colleen — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:17:10 +0000

I’m running WordPress MU for my blog, and my code was stripped too. Here’s how you can edit MU to keep the code from being stripped.

Open this file: wp-includes > ksep.php

Look for a line like this: if (!CUSTOM_TAGS) {

Add the following two (I put them in alphabetical order with the existing allowed tags)

‘embed’ => array (
’style’ => array (),
‘type’ => array (),
‘id’ => array (),
‘height’ => array (),
‘width’ => array (),
’src’ => array ()),
‘object’ => array (
‘height’ => array (),
‘width’ => array ()),
‘param’ => array (
‘name’ => array (),
‘value’ => array ()),

‘object’ => array(
‘width’ => array (),
‘height’ => array (),
‘movie’ => array (),
‘allowFullScreen’ => array (),
‘embed src’ => array(),
‘application/x-shockwave-flash’ => array()),

By: prashant

prashant — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:39:14 +0000

Thanks a lot. Used this in my blog, I was facing the same problem.

By: youtube traffic

youtube traffic — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:11:55 +0000

thank you for such a great topic. I have learned a lot by reading on this website today.

By: fudge.org » Blog Archive » Embedding YouTube video in WordPress

fudge.org » Blog Archive » Embedding YouTube video in WordPress — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:46:09 +0000

[…] Result: Newlines are being added somehow by the editor (and the ampersand converted as well) and crushing out the object tag and impacting a div somewhere else which causes further page rendering to be centered. Ick. […]

By: www.portakal.in

www.portakal.in — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:13:47 +0000

thanks

By: rest

rest — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:21:30 +0000

an? what you think about teachertube?

By: Googlelady

Googlelady — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:01:01 +0000

This video step-by-step on how to embeded yourtube videos in wordpress:
http://www.blognetize.com/26/e.....wordpress/

No need of a plugin.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:41:37 +0000

Hey everybody-
My solution to the issue was first to dl Firefox, which I only use for blog posting, and then the above solution you have is correct. Whenever I post a video, I click ’save and continue editing’. You will be able to jump back into the code after that and continue editing. Hope this helps a little.

-jv

By: Myo Kyaw Htun

Myo Kyaw Htun — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 03:52:28 +0000

Seriously, Wordpress Tiny MCE editor always change the object embed code every time i paste in editor. That makes my site invalid XHTML. Now what I did it, I embed flash code by using Adsense deluxe plugin. That’s pretty work for me.

By: Blogsolid

Blogsolid — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:34:04 +0000

I did not manage to download Viper’s Video Quicktags plugin from the link above, so here’s a link to the wordpress plugin page for Viper’s Video Quicktags.

By: BlogBuzz September 8, 2007 » Webmaster-Source

BlogBuzz September 8, 2007 » Webmaster-Source — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 10:26:36 +0000

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By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:37:56 +0000

I say we just go over to http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/ and demand a new WYSIWYG editor. :D

Actually, there have been people doing just that. I believe it’s actually being considered, though who knows when we’ll get it.

By: Blogsolid

Blogsolid — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:10:56 +0000

Haha, thanks Wes, WYSIWTF is quite accurate!

By: Wes

Wes — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:04:25 +0000

I actually recommend Viper’s Video Quicktags.

It puts in buttons for videos from several video sharing sites. Also, it doesn’t seem to break when you edit it, since it uses its own special tags.

As for a desktop client for Wordpress, I’ve used w.Bloggar with some success, tried out Ecto liked it, but it wasn’t free; and also tried out BlogJet and liked it but once again it wasn’t free.

In the end, I came to the conclusion that software isn’t really worth the time considering you can disable the WYSIWYG (or WYSIWTF) view.

By: Blogsolid

Blogsolid — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:48:54 +0000

Hi Memo
Can you recommend a desktop client that works well with Wordpress?

By: Memo

Memo — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:59:41 +0000

That’s one of the reasons why I use a blog desktop client, as I find the WYSIWYG editor included in Wordpress annoying and basically useless. For example, I hate when it refuses to automatically break a line breaking the layout.

By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:01:20 +0000

Yeah, that’s always been one of the most annoying Wordpress “features” (read: bugs). Pretty much every other platform supports YouTube, and any other flash-based video site. It’s about time they fix it. Yes, plugins work okay, but you can’t see the video in the post editor while you write accompanying text. Wordpress needs a new editor. TinyMCE works okay, but it’s a big pain with stuff like videos (it also likes to “fix” code you wrote, replacing DIVs with Ps and things like that).

By: Blogsolid

Blogsolid — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:57:54 +0000

I just tested it, and you’re right, redwall, if you place the YouTube embed code in the code tab and publish immediately, it does work!
The problem, as you pointed out, is that if you go back and edit the post again, it seems to break…

By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:34:03 +0000

It’s the WYSIWYG editor that’s doing it. If you’re never going to edit a post again, than you technically can just paste it into the code tab, then publish. The problem is, if you ever open the post in WYSIWYG mode again (or just switch the tab after pasting the code), Wordpress will strip it out.

It gets worse in Wordpress MU, where WPMU totally blocks any code it doesn’t recognize for “security reasons”. That includes YouTube videos.

Plugins seem to be the best option for now. At least until Wordpress supports YouTube natively.