Wordpress, YouTube and Pasting HTML

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I had problems with including YouTube videos. After evaluating several plugins, I eventually gave up. It turned out, that the best way for me is to deactivate the rich text editor and use the plain HTML editor to paste HTML code from the YouTube pages.

For example, I checked out Video Blogger Plugin for WordPress, but its usability is pretty poor. Have a look at the documentation for importing a video:

1. Video URL from YouTube.com=http://youtube.com/watch.php?v=Mdn9p0xpSMs
2. Video Id=Mdn9p0xpSMs
3. New Post in WP
4. Set Title Edit Box = “!vb:yt,Mdn9p0xpSMs!”
5. Set Post Edit box = “!vb:yt,Mdn9p0xpSMs,http://helmetcameracentral.com/images/CliffLakeStory_ZoomerForWeb_30p.jpg!”
6. Click Save And Continue Editing.
7. Scroll down and you should see various details about your video in the READ ONLY META area. This is simply to show you what video data was cached based on the directive you entered.
8. Scroll down and view the preview window.
9. Click on your video to play it!
10. If it looks right and works, Publish it.

Imho, this just doesn’t feel right… :-(

Nov 4, 2006 at 22:46 | Permalink

3 Comments

  • 1. Chad Lancour  |  November 5th, 2006 at 3:21 am

    Did u try it? Did you you just blog this to knock the doc? ?-)

  • 2. Stefan Kleineikenscheidt  |  November 5th, 2006 at 1:54 pm

    Hey Chad, thanks for your feedback. I’ve actually tried the plugin out before reading the docs. I would have expected the plugin to be more user-friendly. Wouldn’t it be enough to enter the video id (once) and select the video source using something like a drop-down?

  • 3. Chad Lancour  |  November 6th, 2006 at 4:52 pm

    It’s a 1.0 version, it was designed with my needs/uses in mind, and it’s open source. My hope was someone would take the code (or approach) and improve on it. I understand your frustration in finding a decent plugin. I would my code to be cleaner, the docs better, and the usability improved. It will probably just take a while. :-)

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