[Plugin: External Videos] Videos not embedding

Hmm, maybe wordpress have changed the way in which external videos are shown on the page. Are you sure that your settings for embedding videos by link are unchanged in your wordpress settings?

As far as i know they are unchanged.

What settings could i check?? The only ones i can think of are the Auto-embed settings within Admin>Settings>Media. The auto embed option is enabled.

Just tried creating a new post with just the youtube link and that doesnt seem to work either, so perhaps its a wordpress problem rather than a plugin issue.

https://www.anglingaddicts.co.uk/2000/uncategorized/video-embed-test/

I assume this is how External videos works?? Just by posting the url to the youtube page then letting WP auto embed it??

It has been suggested that maybe this plugin is causing some sort of conflict. If i deactivate it to check will i lose all my authors and videos??

No they should not disappear. I tried it on my install and they did not disappear.

It is possible that there is a conflict – maybe wordpress used a variable name that I had already used in the plugin. But I would indeed like confirmation that this is a problem first.

Thanks for trying!

Hi Silvia. I deactivated this plugin to check (and every other plugin i have actually) and the issue still exists, so obviously the issue lies else where and “External Videos” is just bearing the brunt of it…

If/when i get to the bottom of it Ill let you know what caused it in case anyone else experiences this problem in the future.

Thanks for your help

Paul

Hi silvia.

I have found a temporary fix of sorts. For some reason, if a youtube link is placed on the first line of a post it will not embed. If however i place the url on the second line it embeds perfectly.

My question is, is there a way of editing the plugin to put something above the youtube link so that the link is pushed down a line or two??

Thanks for debugging this and finding a solution! It indeed looks like a WordPress bug.

Yes, you can edit the plugin easily. In ev-shortcode.php find the function display_gallery, then find the comment <!– Hidden content for the thickbox –>. Underneath there is the template for the overlay. You will probably want to put a
in front of <?php echo $html ?> to move the url into the second line. I am not sure what effects that has etc. But this is where I would start.

I’m going to have to find some time rsn to fix all the feedback I have received on this plugin…

Ok struggling a bit with the thick box. Putting new lines in just moves the link down a line and doesnt embed.

Putting a new line in only seems to work on “posts”

And now my head hurts lol

I edited this post by simply adding a newline at the top
https://www.anglingaddicts.co.uk/?post_type=external-videos&p=4926

When a new video is found, which section of code creates the new post?? Just wondering if i could edit the post template to include a new line when posted, delete all videos, then search for new videos.

Only thing to all this is it isnt fixed the actual cause!!!

Ah, what I was giving you was the overlay from the gallery, not the post, I think. The import creates the new post. Let me check…

It’s in external-videos.php in function save_video. I think you need to change this line:
$video_content .= $video[‘videourl’];

Good luck!

To fix the actual cause, you’d have to talk to somebody who does the actual wordpress code.

I have managed to sort out a workaround for the individual posts by changing this
$video_content .= $video['videourl'];

to this
$video_content .= "</p>".$video['videourl'];

Then deleting all videos, and re searching for them. The posts are then updated with the same code but with </p> in front of the code.

The thick box however is a different beast. Everything i try just moves the info down a line and it doesnt embed. I have tried various methods but nothing seems to work.

Ill let you know any further developments, although im struggling to get anywhere on the support forum.

I’m just trying to fix all the issues that have come up with the plugin and installed WordPress 3.1.1. I don’t have the issues discussed above with this version. Can you give updating a try to see if that removes the issues?

Hi Silvia, apologies, I have only just seen this.

We are currently running WP 3.1.1

The issue still exists but only within the thickbox.

How would i go about editing the shortcode so that the thumbs are still created and clickable, but instead of the thickbox opening it simply redirects to the relevant video page (IE ../?post_type=external-videos&p=XXX)

I’ve updated the codebase – you might want to try if this fixes it.

I have updated the plugin. The new link to the video page is on there but still the thickbox doesnt embed the video

Im pretty sure the problem isnt anything to do with the plugin, but i cannot find what it actually is. Support from the main forum has been sketchy and im at a loss as to what to do.

The only thing i can think of is to modify the shortcode so that it deactivates the thickbox and simply redirects to the relevant video page instead.

Any clues on how to do this would be gratefully received!!