Tom Auger

Thanks for sticking with this topic!

But, arg – what a pain! That means exiting your post, going to the media library, uploading the video, copying the url, going back into the post, pasting the URL. Okay, not that this is an impossible workflow, but does feel a little like a broken UX. What would be so hard about making an embed video button that works exactly like the embed image button? Or am I missing something obvious here?

T

Gotcha.

So what’s the recommended best practice for embedding video (ie: uploading a video file and embedding it so it plays directly within the page)?

Arr. I’m going to have to cross-post on wordpress.stackexchange.com and see if there are any more responses there.

Also remember that if your custom taxonomy term is empty (ie: no posts or pages are using that term), some themes (ie: TwentyTen) show what looks like an Error 404 page (it’s not really). So if you’re testing custom taxonomy “category” pages, make sure you actually have some posts that belong to that term.

I thought I was losing it. I’m also missing the embed video button. In the TinyMCE Advanced settings, I see the embed video button right next to the insert image button, but when I go to edit a post, it’s not there. I wonder why that would be…

In this case, $user_ID is null because of a domain/cookie issue, best as I can tell. A quick trip to Admin-Options and setting both URLs to the same domain worked.

Still would love to know which include does the initial query on get_currentuserinfo(); If anyone knows, please post your response! I will check back periodically.

Hey man, no worries. Always glad to help….

….myself.

Wow, thanks Tom for that great answer. And of course it worked. Just as you said it would.

Tom, I have a solution for you:

You’re barking up the wrong tree altogether. It has to do (I believe) with how WP maintains session continuity: session cookies, is my educated guess.

Your blog is hosted at https://www.separation.ca/blog, but you’ve given it a blog URL of blog.andrewfeldstein.com. Now, I’m not sure why the WP-admin allows you to do this, but apparently it breaks the session cookie, because it’s a completely different domain. As you know, if your session cookie is set to work for a specific domain only (eg: https://www.separation.ca) it will not be read on another domain (blog.andrewfeldstein.com). And therefore, the comments.php page just doesn’t realize you’re logged in.

The solution that works in this case is to go to wp-admin, logged in as Admin and change your site options so that the WP install URL is the same as the blog URL.

I’m sure there’s a better solution, otherwise why would they give you the option of having two different URLs in there, but in this case it works like a charm.

Marc, did you ever get this to work? I have a similar issue…

Hmmm. I tried another theme and comments appeared to work correctly, so clearly the theme plays a role.

Can someone point me to the right template file to be looking at? I’ve dissected comments.php and got hung up on the $user_ID variable which remains null under all circumstances. I don’t think the problem is with comments.php.

Also, how does this work? Do I need to bump this question so it gets attention again, or do I just hope some enterprising soul peruses the backlogs?

As always, I greatly appreciate your input.

Tom

Well, I have switched themes to the WP Default theme, and the behaviour is identical. I can conclude therefore that it is not the theme that is causing the issue.

What else should I be looking for?

Guys, thanks for the great tip – I should have thought of that before. I will look into it and post my success (or additional questions if unsuccessful) here.

Regards,

Tom