wHY DID YOU QUIT ALLOWING VIDEO UPLOADS FROM A URL?

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  partneringwitheagles · Member · Nov 21, 2011 at 11:23 am

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  DUE TO THE UPLOADER CHANGES, YOU EFFECTIVELY LOCKED US OUT OF POSTING VIDEO FROM A URL. I just tried to upload a video; when clicking on the appropriate tab, there is no window to upload the video, just the two windows for the URL, and title.
  Blog url: http://partneringwitheagles.wordpress.com/

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  designsimply · Member · Nov 21, 2011 at 6:42 pm

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  Try these steps:

  1. Open a post for editing and click the media icon (the first one) next to Upload/Insert
  2. Click the From URL tab
  3. Select the Audio, Video, or Other File
  4. Fill in the URL and Title fields
  5. Click the ‘Insert into Post’ button

  If it doesn’t work for you, could you please tell me the URL you entered in step 4?

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  partneringwitheagles · Member · Nov 22, 2011 at 5:12 pm

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  The URL is from youtube. (I know other sites URL’s don’t work)
  BUT the ‘Insert into Post’ button stays greyed out; so it refuses to upload.
  With the changes you did to menus, there is a conflict – the settings are for images; if i click on “Audio, Video, or Other File”, only the windows for the URL and title remain. No way to post.

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  partneringwitheagles · Member · Nov 22, 2011 at 5:15 pm

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  I found a workaround; I use the “imbed” info, and use the HTML instead of Visual tab. Still this had been unnecessary, until the recent format change.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Nov 22, 2011 at 8:29 pm

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  Alternatively, you could just paste in the URL of the video, and we’ll take care of the rest.

  See the various guides at http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/

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