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it was a bug in the upgrade script – got me too.

Here’s the solution:
https://blog.cumps.be/wordpress-26-upgrade-fix-missing-categories/

Oh, hi mbaze, you commented over at jeremiah’s site, I’m Ross as I guess you figured. I just answered over there,and I’m adding full code details here now.

First, I agree tinyMCE is really a huge detriment to WP. But in this case it’s not at fault. It wasn’t altering the code earlier, and now I have it turned off to be sure. I’ve tried some things.

I had to mess with this when YouTube pulled that new “related videos” feature that everybody had to scramble to disable. I ended up just using a simple <embed> tag with the URL in, and it worked.

I tried the same here.

PodTech generates embedding code for wordpress.com hosted blogs, using a long URL surrounded by [square brackets], which I believe the wordpress.com platform recognizes. Not the same for the stand-alone versions however.

When I change to regular angle brackets, and throw in a width and height, I can get the layout, and the browser calls to PodTech, but nothing loads. There’s something in the actual URL that PodTech is supplying that doesn’t quite work in this situation, I believe.

PodTech supplies:

[podtech content=https://media1.podtech.net/media/2007/08/PID_012118/Podtech_AlwaysOn_Irving_IBM.flv&postURL=https://www.podtech.net/home/3783/talking-with-long-time-ibmer &totalTime=1315000&breadcrumb=4aba1fdc769e4326a20e526caf1fdcda]

I change it to this:

<embed src="https://media1.podtech.net/media/2007/08/PID_012118/Podtech_AlwaysOn_Irving_IBM.flv&postURL=https://www.podtech.net/home/3783/talking-with-long-time-ibmer&totalTime=1315000&breadcrumb=4aba1fdc769e4326a20e526caf1fdcda" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="240" width="320">

I’ve tried some variations on that long URL, stripping it shorter. And I’m putting it in a div, but with no other code. I’ve also tried this on two different installs of WP, on different servers. Each time I get the layout space with nothing in it, and the browser makes the call to PodTech, but nothing loads.

btw the PodTech end of this conversation is here:
https://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2007/08/10/customer-support-nears-real-time/

any help from anyone would be greatly appreciated.

more information on this – apologies if this doesn’t format well. I want to embed this video:
https://www.podtech.net/scobleshow/technology/1592/talking-with-long-time-ibmer#

the video generates the following code for wordpress.com:

[podtech content=https://media1.podtech.net/media/2007/08/PID_012118/Podtech_AlwaysOn_Irving_IBM.flv&postURL=https://www.podtech.net/home/3783/talking-with-long-time-ibmer &totalTime=1315000&breadcrumb=4aba1fdc769e4326a20e526caf1fdcda]

with the brackets and the space inline. This appears as simple text.

How to tweak this code to comply with WP?