If you checked my last 2 posts, you would notice that I embedded two youtube video on them. Well, the experience of embedding the two videos had not been really easy, as a matter of fact, it was so frustrating. The thing is, with the new version of Wordpress, it now has what they called a ‘Visual Editor’. This enables you to write your post in a WYSIWYG environment. Everything was good, until I tried to embed youtube video code into the post ! After I published the post and view it in the blog, the video was just not there ! It’s gone missing ! At the end I managed to do it by doing it in a certain way.
I thought, I can’t do this all the time, other people must’ve had the same problem as me.
Off I went to Wordpress support page, which lead me to this support post here. Apparently there is some bug in one of the javascript file that belongs to the Visual Editor module, which changes the
1. The simplest thing is to turn off the Visual Editing (in User - Profile page). I think I’m going to do this as my default for now on.
2. Using Video plugin. I’m gonna try this out as well.
Here are some other links: here, and here.
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