<embed> becomes <ibed> in my WP2.1 editor

If you’re going to just plop ’em into the post editor, turn of the wysiwyg editor first (Users -> Your Profile, top checkbox if 2.1, bottom checkbox if 2.0.x)

There are several plugins (a search here will turn ’em up) that will make adding those easier.

I have gone thru 4 plugins to embed video with mixed (usually buggy) results until I decided the easiest way to add videos is just copy&paste the embedding code in the post editor – still didn’t expect the WYSIWYG editor would change the <embed> tags by itself. I wish I could be able to use the visual editor but as you suggested maybe the best is to turn it off and do things oldscool until the issues are solved ??

I have just found out a catch to the bug and a way of avoiding this problem: paste the embedding code in the code tab of the editor and do not “save and continue editing”, just “save”, and the embedded code will render ok – just don’t try to re-edit the same post in the code mode or it will screw things up again =)

I have just noticed the same sort of problem happening with formatting as in this post, and avoided in the same way:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/104514?replies=8

“This will act as a pseudo fix allowing you to apply DIV tags manually but beware as if you try and re-edit the post your DIV tags will be replaced automatically by P tags once more.”

The <embed> to <ibed> bug was something that tinyMCE fixed over a year ago in their 2.0 codebase, so I’m not sure why it’s happening in WP, unless they’re using a really old tinyMCE core.

P.S. I think this bug only occurs in Firefox.

The tinymce.js file in 2.1 says the following:

this.majorVersion = "2";
this.minorVersion = "0.8";
this.releaseDate = "2006-10-23";

“Fixed bug where embed elements was converted into ibed elements.”

From 2.1 changelog : https://tinymce.moxiecode.com/changelog.php