Unable to embed YouTube video

masakoomoto · Member · Sep 20, 2014 at 4:40 am
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Hi –

I’m trying to embed YouTube video in page\project and for some reasons it keeps failing. In Text area,

1) enter “[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zd_FiwA8w8[/embed]” >> get “failed to embed” error in visual area

2) enter “[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zd_FiwA8w8]” >> get literally same shortcode text in visual area (and that’s what it shows in my website as well)

Not sure why it fails for this video. I tried other video and it works fine. Any help would be appreciated (I already went through http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/youtube/).
timethief · Member · Sep 21, 2014 at 11:30 pm
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That’s not the correct shortcode. What I post below is correct so add nothing, subtract nothing and change nothing in it. Paste it on a single line all by itself
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zd_FiwA8w8]

refer to http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/youtube/#embedding-with-a-shortcode
and know I have the video up and running on my test blog right now.
masakoomoto · Member · Sep 23, 2014 at 1:48 am
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Hi timethief, thank you for reply. Actually issue was on my youtube setting – “allow embed” setting was off for my video, so after setting is checked, I was able to embed my video on my wordpress site.

Thanks again for your reply!
timethief · Member · Sep 24, 2014 at 3:29 am
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Aha! That will do it. Thanks for letting us know this is resolved and best wishes with your blog.

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