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Shawn Lankton Online
vision, science, engineering, and fun
Ok this one is for the Wordpress users out there. When I started using Wordpress for this site, I was annoyed by its treatment of videos in the “visual” editor. If you copied and pasted the <embed> code from YouTube into your post, the visual editor would come along and make it all wonky, and it would look terrible. Well, the simple solution there is to not use the visual editor. Since I’m an old salt when it comes to HTML, that was ok with me. HOWEVER, when my mom wanted to start doing a blog, things got a little hairy.
I had to find the simple way to embed a video from YouTube and not have it mess up the formatting. I finally found a great solution on this website after a heroic search during my lunch break! The solution is to use this plugin, which allows you to insert a YouTube movie using this simple syntax:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGokvlWXoJE]
And, this can be entered into the “visual” or “code” editor with no problems! Thanks guys.
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