dagicueppers

Thank you very much for your reply. I did de-activate and re-activate the plugin. I also uninstalled it and swept the database of all instances and re-installed it. I even bought the upgraded version so I would start with a completely new plugin file. The issue remains. Do you have any other ideas?

Thank you very much!

Thank you so much, for checking in, JS. I finally gave up on the idea of my videos playing inline on Facebook when shared from my blog.

The problem is not the Facebook cache. I have tried with dozens of newly uploaded videos and newly created posts.

Any YouTube video embedded and played fine, privacy-enhanced mode on or off, with and without secure browsing enabled on Facebook. For that reason, I’m not sure anymore that the problem is related to secure browsing or SSL support, but Vimeo confirmed that they will start offering SSL support with their next player release and I’ll try again when they do.

Strangely, it also worked flawlessly with the old Vimeo embed code. (https://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=…) I don’t want to use it; just tried it to find out what’s working and what isn’t…

I don’t know what my conclusion is other than that I don’t have any more time to try to figure it out. For now, I have beautiful titles, descriptions and thumbnail images for all of my posts, thanks to your awesome plugin. Thank you for all your work and help. I will rate and review the plugin right now.

Thank you very much, JS!
~Dagi

Oh, you’re wonderful! Thank you so much for checking in. It’s a little crazy to admit it, but I’ve been trying to figure this out all day. Can’t let it go now that you made it work. But so far, no luck. Both the Facebook Debugger and the Google Structured Data Testing Tool now attest that the blog is finally outputting the HTTPS version, but Facebook still doesn’t play the video. I followed your recommendation, of course, and tried a newly uploaded video in a new post, but that didn’t do it. I’ll let you know when I figure it out.

Thank you so much, JS!
~Dagi

Thanks much for your quick reply, JS! I installed the developer version and that did not fix my problem. I appreciate your help very much, though.

I’ve done a lot of research in case you are interested in what I found. Many pieces of information, none of which have caused my embedded videos to play:

Turning off secure browsing on Facebook doesn’t solve the problem.

Vimeo does not offer ssl support for embedded videos at this time. They suggest replacing the ‘http’ in the embed code with ‘https’. Doesn’t work for me and a lot of other people.

I also found a source saying that Facebook currently ignores the “og:secure_url” -tag when video is posted from a third-party app. They suggest posting the URL directly into Facebook as a workaround…

I don’t like it, but it might be time to settle for the bit.ly link version.

Thanks much for your interest and help. And for the awesome plugin, of course!
~Dagi

Oh, I’m so grateful, JS! And I wish I had asked two days ago. This solved my problem: The button only shows up when a post has a featured or attached image. I didn’t know. Thanks so much for your quick answer. Made my day!