nilsgeylen

Very silly me!

Went back to the HTML view. I knew shortcode URLs are not supposed to be hyperlinked.

What I had not noticed, copy pasting the URL from a site rather than the original YT URL, was that some formatting (spans, of all things) had been included.

Make sure then, in HTML editor view, that the embed code really is nothing else but what it says it should be.

Thanks for the swift reply Jan. My issue, I now see as closed.

Hi. I don’t understand what asker tries to say either. The topic comes closest to my issue though: I cant get it to work.

Have tried Jetpack active/inactive, connected to WP/not connected, full URL, short URL, brackets, apostrophes, disabling all other plugins, etc.

None of the settings as described on the shortcodes support page work, whereas with JP on and connected, it should just be:

[youtube=URL]

Something’s up because I see the issue popping up in other posts and places but I can’t find the simple solution.

Running latest WP with no other plugins also updated.

Think you may mean the GalleryView additional plugin?

Link

First off, this rocks. It has set me up way better than earlier attempts trying to use plugins. So kudos.

@j_stewart89 and @catwitt:

Overall I’m pretty inexperienced with PHP and only starting out. What’s causing your problem however has to do with where you query (sic?) the_content and where the loops start/end.

At first I started the loop (if have posts) and then I added both the get_content and the the query_posts command (added with a ‘if function exists’ in there as well referring to a thumbnail plugin).

But! Now I have it. It works and here is a basic summary of what you need:

First comes the template thing

<?php /*Template Name: TemplateName*/?>

Then comes the standard page markup

<?php get_header(); ?>

Now you start your first loop

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<?php the_title(); ?>
<?php the_content(); ?>

And you end it too

<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

That gets you your regular page contents, like an intro

Then you run your query

<?php query_posts('category_name=CategoryName'); ?>

Now comes the second loop that makes for the listing of posts

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<?php the_ID(); ?>

Here’s where I also call for the thumbnail plugin

<?php if ( function_exists('jr_post_image') ) { jr_post_image($id); } ?>

Some more info which I’ll style later so it sits nicely next to the thumbs

<?php the_date('F Y'); ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink()?>"><?php the_title()?></a>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

And again you end the loop

<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

And now you can continue with sidebars, widgets or footers.

Hope this helps. Works for me but no doubt some experts could elaborate on this or tell us where we still go wrong a bit.

Bumping this but by adding that I installed it for WP 2.8.2 under XAMPP on Ubuntu today and it doesn’t even show up in the available themes.

Or am I doing something wrong that’s entirely different?