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4.9 Upgrade Causing YouTube Embed Code to Not Work?

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  • November 17, 2017 at 1:20 pm #213685
    Lynn
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    https://www.lynncoffey.com/

    Upgraded to WP 4.9 earlier and my home page video size went wonky. Tried the code on another non-4.9 WordPress site and it's fine. Reverted the site back to 4.8.3 and it's fine. So it's just the 4.9.

    Deactivated all plugins and that didn't solve it.

    So it muse be something with the 4.9 WP files. Anyone have any idea how to resolve or fix?

    https://www.lynncoffey.com/
    November 17, 2017 at 1:44 pm #213686
    Victor Font
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    My YouTube embeds still work after 4.9. How are you embedding the videos?

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    November 17, 2017 at 1:49 pm #213688
    Lynn
    Member

    Using embed code from YouTube in home top widget. Other areas are working fine (ex. in an actual page or post).

    November 18, 2017 at 5:05 am #213700
    Victor Font
    Moderator

    You don't need the YouTube embed codes with WordPress. Since WordPress 2.9, all you have to use us the YouTube URL. WordPress automatically does the embedding. In your page or post, just add the url. https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds

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    November 18, 2017 at 6:43 pm #213722
    Lynn
    Member

    That's not correct with the home top widget. I can add the link but it ignores the video size entirely and will not align it left. If you look at the URL I provided you can see the code I'm using.

    I've tried it using the Insert Media link in a Text widget and I tried it using the YouTube embed code... both ignore the actual size of the video completely. Any workout to get a video and text or image to lay the way I need with the 4.9 update?

    November 19, 2017 at 5:35 am #213732
    Victor Font
    Moderator

    You never said you were using a widget. If you're using widgets, you have to use the WordPress video shortcode and include the size parameters. WordPress V.4.9 updated the built-in media elements player to the latest version.

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    November 20, 2017 at 9:34 am #213787
    Lynn
    Member

    Hi, Victor.

    Here is my original code that worked great in every other WP version: 

    <div style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Cl23E_NGPkU?rel=0" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>
<a href="/inner.html" target="new"><img src="/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/home-page-offer.jpg" /></a>

    When I use that now, WP ignores the sizing. I've tried a variety of things and nothing seems to work. Based on your reply I also tried:

    <div style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px;">[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl23E_NGPkU[/embed]</div>
<a href="/inner.html" target="new"><img src="/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/home-page-offer.jpg" /></a>

    But that does not work either. What am I missing?

    November 20, 2017 at 10:13 am #213788
    Victor Font
    Moderator

    You're not specifying the height and width: [embed width="560" height="315"]. The instructions are shown in the codex: https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds

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    November 20, 2017 at 10:43 am #213791
    Lynn
    Member

    That still doesn't work. It's still refusing to accept dimensions.

    November 20, 2017 at 11:33 am #213793
    studiokid
    Member

    That's why i always some days and then update wordpress. This happens sometime and wordpress team fix the bug and re-introduce another version to update.

    Still my website: https://bloggersneed.com/ using the old version.

    I am waiting for another bug fix update and install it... Follow the same..

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    November 20, 2017 at 6:15 pm #213814
    Lynn
    Member

    I got it to work finally. Had to use the Custom HTML widget instead of the old Text widget. StudioKid hopefully that helps you 🙂

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