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Doodlebee,

Please forget what I said above. I found out the solution, which is ridiculously simple and doesn’t involve scripts or hacks or fixes of any kind.

All I had to do is to replace

<p align="center">

By

<div style="text-align: center">

As simple as that!

Now Internet Explorer is able to play YouTube videos embedded in my WordPress pages.

As I said before, it doesn’t seem to me to make sense that websites should be adapted to show flash videos on IE. As a webmaster I haven’t ever faced such problem before even using the <p aling=”center”> parameter as I always did. This was the first time and, by chance, it happened with WordPress pages — for some strange reason, I must say.

Thank you for your kind attention anyway.

Regards!

Hello doddlebee,

Thanks for your replies. I’ll try the script you mentioned as disabling RTE didn’t make any difference.

In case you feel like willing to help me a little bit further please suggest me some keywords appliable to this case from which I can begin my search in the forums (please have in mind that I’m not an English native speaker). The kernel of the problem still seems a bit vague for me.

Thanks a lot!

Thanks doodlebee for your considerations.

First, that language is not Spanish but Brazilian Portuguese. ??

Anyway, it doesn’t seem to make much sense the need of a script or something like that to turn IE able to play YouTube embedded videos as, as I mentioned, it actually does play them on non-WP-made sites.

The problem is WordPress, it seems.

In the case of the non-WP-site the code for the video was published as follows:

<p align="center"><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube.com/v/qHO8l-Bd1O4"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="https://www.youtube.com/v/qHO8l-Bd1O4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>

(Which is exactly like YouTube supplies the code.)

But on my site WordPress does this after saving:

<p align="center">
<object width="425" height="350">
<param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube.com/v/qHO8l-Bd1O4"></param>
<param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param>
<embed src="https://www.youtube.com/v/qHO8l-Bd1O4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>

What the differences are?

1. Wrapping;

2. An undesired “<p>” parameter in the middle of the code.

Wrapping doesn’t seem to be the issue (please correct me if I’m wrong) but as WordPress won’t let me get rid of that <p> (it always puts it back there) I can’t test otherwise.

Ideas will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Never mind. I found the way myself.

Thanks anyway…

Retrying:

When an user other than an Administrator enters a WordPress-made site what does he/she see? Profile and Dashboard only. In other words, all Administrator’s options are hidden. How can I add Dashboard to those hidden options?

Thank you to anyone who feels like willing to help me.

Could you suggest me a simple text editor for Windows that effectively saves files in UTF-8?

BTW, no, there wasn’t blank lines or spaces before and after the code on any of the riles specified on the error message as there still isn’t. Even so I keep getting the error everytime I save the PHP file with NotePad set to UTF-8

Thanks!

Unfortunately not.

Surely it’s an interesting plugin and I’ll keep it set active but it still doesn’t do what I want.

Whatever the redirected page is, it still shows the Dashboard option. That’s precisely what I don’t want it to do.

Thanks for your attention.

Anyone have other suggestion?

C’mon guys!

I’m not a PHP guy but I’m sure it’s not that difficult!

Consider this:

When an user other than an Administrator enters the site what does he/she see? Profile and Dashboard only. In other words, all Administrator’s options are hidden.

The question is simple: how can I add Dashboard to those hidden options?

Thank you to anyone who feels like willing to help me.

Well, let me try again:

I’ve found out that the page index.php in the wp-admin folder contains the following code in the bottom:

<?php _e("Need help with WordPress? Please see our
<a href='https://codex.www.ads-software.com/'>documentation</a>
or visit the <a href='https://www.ads-software.com/support/'>support
forums</a>."); ?>

<div id="devnews"></div>

<div id="planetnews"></div>

<div style="clear: both">&nbsp;
<br clear="all" />
</div>
</div>

<?php
require('./admin-footer.php');
?>

I want it to be shown only if the user is an Administrator.

How can I do that?

Thanks!

davidchait, please ignore the question above. I’ve solved the problem with this:

<?php the_excerpt('Read more ?'); ?>
<p><a>" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to <?php the_title(); ?>">Read more</a></p>

That’s it.

Thanks once more. ??

Almost there, davidchait! ??

Thanks for the “the_excerpt” tip, which is right what I wanted.

But the “read-more” feature is not working. Have a look: https://applemania.info

Note that there’s no “Read more” link below each paragraph as it should.

How can I fix it?

Thanks!

I’m awfully sorry, samboll, but that plugin does’t do what I want — and, considering what it actually does (setting a static home page), it’s useless for WordPress 2.1 users.

Let me put thing a bit more simple: I want to create a home page that is half static, half dynamic. The dynamic part is a set of links for the latest posts, similar to the ones shown on search results.

Now, for anyone able to answer this: is it possible? If yes, how?

Thanks in advance.

The “‘j \\d\e F \\d\e Y'” tip was right what I needed.

Thanks a lot!

Nice tips. Many thanks to you both.

It works just fine. Thanks a lot!