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@kevinfodness sorry for the delay. we didn’t have a video post to test.

I just posted this https://apple.news/AWtV5_MvNSju5iRGP3zRrbQ

Here’s how it looks on our site https://invisiblepeople.tv/inside-americas-first-safe-drug-consumption-site/ with the video embed

Same issue. The video does not become an embed. It just takes the thumbnail photo.

I will gladly pay to have this fixed. It’s taken us some time to ramp up video, but we are about to do much more.

Thanks for the help

Kevin,

Thanks so much for your time and support

if you need to contact me since I am not on Github, my email is mark at invisiblepeople dot tv

Just following up on this.

Thanks for the help

Kevin,

Thanks for taking the time to look into this. I will gladly compensate a developer to fix if needed. Appreciate the help.

Thanks

Kevin,

First, thanks for the help. I need to fix this, and your support is greatly appreciated.

I don’t know code, so I asked our developer to take a look. She teaches at USC and knows her stuff. Here is her email to me after trying your suggestion:

I finally had some time to dig into this and I honestly have no idea how to implement the fix suggested by the developer. I need a code example or something else to work with, I have no idea what I need to filter or even where to begin in writing the function.

I’m also not sure what these folks mean by “the oEmbed code isn’t being used.” I looked at that post and it looks like the proper embeds are being used — just paste the URL and it embeds and that’s what we’re doing. So I have no idea what these folks mean when they say the proper embed code isn’t being used.

The only additional thing that’s being done is that we are using the FitVids for WordPress plugin to make all the videos responsive (they weren’t being responsive otherwise). The plugin is here: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/fitvids-for-wordpress/

This plugin wraps a line of code around the embed to make the video responsive but other than that, the actual iframe embed code is still there. I’m stumped.

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Please advise,

Mark

Today we embedded a video in the body of a post near the bottom. It doesn’t show. It says “YouTube video player” with a link to our original post

This is Apple News

https://apple.news/A_YTQqedrSxqV74xB50PSEw

Our original post with the embed at the bottom https://invisiblepeople.tv/street-medicine-bringing-healthcare-to-the-homeless-community/

I just tried. Please forgive the repeat info

here is our post

https://invisiblepeople.tv/venice-beach-homeless-mom-reunited-with-daughter-in-project-roomkey/

Here’s the post on Apple News https://apple.news/AV5emRxZOQUKWlCrfefERuA

No video

We use this plugin Featured Video Plus, which may be outdated https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/featured-video-plus/

The plugin creates a featured image and adds the video to the featured area when we add YouTube URL. Not sure if I am explaining it right, as I am not a WordPress or code person. I adding this info incase needed

Thanks for the help

Hi Kevin

It’s not fixed

I just posted this https://apple.news/AV5emRxZOQUKWlCrfefERuA

It should be a video embed at the top as it is here https://invisiblepeople.tv/venice-beach-homeless-mom-reunited-with-daughter-in-project-roomkey/

I went back to add a link to the video since the embed is not working, and that doesn’t seem to be updated yet. I will leave this post up as-is for you to troubleshoot.

Please let me know how I can help, and thanks for working on this. Getting the video embed into Apple News is very important

Mark

Thanks, Kevin,

I updated the plugin and will try it out later this week on a video post coming up.

Here are a few other posts with links in h4 and h3 without any video that did not transfer over to Apple News

https://invisiblepeople.tv/it-isnt-that-people-dont-want-to-work-they-just-dont-want-to-work-and-still-be-homeless/
(link in last paragraph)

https://invisiblepeople.tv/shocking-nyc-pauses-the-removal-of-9000-homeless-people-from-hotels/
(link in second H3 header)`