Chris Sandberg » Youtube http://chrissandberg.com Internet Marketer Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:30:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Embedding Youtube Videos in WordPress Posts http://chrissandberg.com/embedding-youtube-videos-in-wordpress-posts/ http://chrissandberg.com/embedding-youtube-videos-in-wordpress-posts/#comments Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:37:24 +0000 csandb http://www.chrissandberg.com/embedding-youtube-videos-in-wordpress-posts/ I’ve had problems with embedding Youtube videos in WordPress blog posts in the past, and since I don’t post videos often enough to remember the solution I end up researching my problem each time. Now that I’ve got the solution down I figured I’d share it with you in case you run into the same trouble. I haven’t upgraded to WordPress 2.5, so I’m not sure if the fix is already be built in the newest version. If it is fixed in newer version then this only applies to older versions of WordPress.

There are two solutions to the problem:

1. Turn off the Visual Editor in your user options

2.  Keep Visual editor on but switch to Code mode when posting YouTube embed code

Turning off the Visual Editor

What seems to be messing up embeded YouTubed videos is WordPress’ Video Editor. The simple solution is to just turn the visual editor off. To do this simply go to Users -> Your Profile,  then uncheck the box that say “Use the visual editor when writing”. This may be a hassle if you want to use the visual editor to edit the post or even edit other posts, because you would have to keep turning the visual editor of and on. The other solutions is to…

Keep Visual editor On But Switch to Code Mode When Pasting YouTube Embed Code

To do this just write your post as you usually would, but wait until you are just about ready to publish your post to insert the Youtube video. When you have done everything except insert your Youtube video, just switch to Code mode (click on the tab next to “Visual” just below the Title box), and paste your Youtube embed code while in Code editing mode. Then click the publish button without going back to Visual mode. It is important that you do this very last, because if you go back to Visual mode your Youtube embed code will get messed up by the WordPress Visual Editor.

So, basically just avoid using the Visual Editor if you don’t want your embeded Youtube videos to get messed up. If you need to ever go back and edit a post with an embeded YouTube video make sure to re-paste the emded code while in Code mode if you use the Visual Editor to edit the post.

I plan to upgrade to WordPress 2.5 in the coming weeks so if there is simpler solution or if the problem has been fixed in that version I will let you know. Please comment with your own experience if you have already used WordPress 2.5 to post Youtube videos.

]]> http://chrissandberg.com/embedding-youtube-videos-in-wordpress-posts/feed/ 8 Some Great Stuff From SEO Book http://chrissandberg.com/some-great-stuff-from-seo-book/ http://chrissandberg.com/some-great-stuff-from-seo-book/#comments Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:12:58 +0000 csandb http://www.chrissandberg.com/some-great-stuff-from-seo-book/ I guess I am on Aaron Walls mailing list because I just got an email from him(Probably from buying his SEO book). He mentioned that he will be finished updating his famous SEO book in several days and in his email also included some goodies such as the following which I though I would share with you…

A video offering tips on how to install and use SEO for Firefox

8 other short SEO videos yesterday, and uploaded them to YouTube here

By the way, I got a chance to meet Aaron at a conference here in the Philippines. I didn’t get a chance to talk to him much, but he seems like a really nice guy.

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