For those of you who can’t get those darn YouTube or Viddler videos to show up in your blog, here’s how you do it:

NOTE: I have changed the < > brackets to [ ] brackets so they will show up. When you go to use this code, change them back to < > brackets.

1. You have to preface the YouTube embed link with this code:

[strong]Title of The Video[/strong]

[table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="425"]
[tr]
[td]

[object height="355" width="425">

2. And you have put this code at the END of the embed link:

[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]

3. As for the video embed link itself, you have to change the code from what YouTube gives you.

For example, this is the embed link of a video as copied and pasted from YouTube:

[object width="425" height="344"][param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HQuODiMlUsc&hl=en&fs=1"][/param][param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"][/param][embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HQuODiMlUsc&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"][/embed][/object]

You have to alter this link:
- delete OBJECT TAGS [object width="425" height="344"] AND [/object] )
AND
- you also have to delete the [a href] [/a] tags that WordPress has likely added
AND
- you have to delete any backslashes [ \ ] that are in the link – there are no backslashes in the link you copy from YouTube or Viddler, but if you’ve clicked the “Add Video” icon on WordPress, somehow they get added in.

So that the link appears like this:

[param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HQuODiMlUsc&hl=en&fs=1"][/param][param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"][/param]
[embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HQuODiMlUsc&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"][/embed]

Sometimes this part of the link code: allowfullscreen=”true”

Will appear like this: wmode=”transparent”

Either is okay to use.

So, when you’re finished, the code for the entire video looks like this:

[strong]Cancer Is A Fungus Part 1[/strong]

[table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="425"]
[tr]
[td]

[param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HQuODiMlUsc&hl=en&fs=1"][/param][param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"][/param]
[embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HQuODiMlUsc&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"][/embed]

[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]

NOTE:
1. Sometimes when you copy and paste an embed link to your post, it will insert all kinds of backslashes (backslashes are: \ ). You need to go through and delete these. Just leave the forward slashes in place (forward slashes are: / )

2. If WordPress adds an [a href] [/a] tag to your embed link, this needs to be deleted too.

3. Lastly, sometimes when copying and pasting, double quote marks ( ” ) get turned into single quote marks ( ‘ ), go through and change any single quotes to double quotes.

For videos from VIDDLER, you have to change the size of the video to 437 x 370. So you would preface the link with:

[table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="437"]
[tr]
[td]
[object height="370" width="437"]

Otherwise, everything stays the same as I outlined for YouTube videos.

And that’s it!

Here’s what a YouTube video will look like in your blog post:
http://www.listen2yourgut.com/blog/gut/natural-cancer-treatment-has-90-success-rate/

Here’s what a Viddler video will look like in your blog:
http://www.listen2yourgut.com/blog/tools/are-you-using-the-ltyg-cd-rom/

I find it easiest to copy the block of code I’ve given you above and paste it into Notepad or TextEdit while I’m writing my blog post. Then I can double-check back and forth easily to make sure I’ve got everything correct.

Hope that helps you out and saves you a wee bit of time!

Jini