Embed this, bitch!
Ok, what the hell is with Word Press and embedding objects? I spent 20 minutes fighting with the code editor on my last post, yet only one of the three you tube videos embeded themselves properly!
Worst of all, it keeps eating my tags! I added BR tags and embed code tags, but when I got to edit the post, THEY ARE GONE! WHAT THE HELL???
I think I need to read the manual.
<some time passes…>
Well I managed to get it working, but not without COMPLETELY destroying the original post and having to delete it! Some how word press decided that I wanted to embed the editor’s HTML code… INTO MY POST!
*sigh*
A problem that many people have.
Wordpress tries to protect you from posting embeded code because it could be used to steal your passwords (MySQL, login, ect) on your server.
There are two ways that I have found to resolve this.
First you have to wire your entire post in code section and push publish not save. if you ever edit the post you will have to rewrite the embed code.
2nd must easier, use a damn wordpress youtube plugin. there are plenty out there.
I use the first method because I already have 30 plugins installed and it takes 3 mins to post a post already.
Comment by Steven Smethurst — May 4, 2007 @ 8:45 am
Plug-in method sounds a bit better.
That reminds me, I still haven’t installed any of those plug-ins you sent to me yet. I think I’ll do that soon.
Comment by aleph — May 4, 2007 @ 11:09 pm