Wordpress is now replacing the youtube links that people post into comments of a post with the actual video. It is rather anoying and I would like to know if it is possible to leave the link as is and not add the embed code to view the video directly from the comment container?
Have you tried entering that code in the TEXT tab rather than the VISUAL tab of the editor?
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I'm having a problem in including embedded post in a Joomla! article. I'm using the TinyMCE editor.
Steps I have followed :
In Text Filter Settings for Super User - No filtering
In TinyMCE settings - remove script and Iframe tag from "Prohibited Elements".
I'm not able to add Pinterest code:
<a data-pin-do="embedPin" data-pin-width="medium" href="https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/dfg/"></a>
It's likely that the code is getting stripped out because the link is not wrapped around any text. You could possibly add inside the link. However, I would suggest using the "None" editor when adding embed code to your posts. I use Switch Editor to quickly change editors.
Switch to "None"
Add the embed code
Save the article
Switch back to your favorite WYSIWYG editor to edit other articles
I have a YouTube embed that ends in ?rel=0. I would like to change this to ?rel=0&vq=hd720. When I edit the post in WordPress under the Text editor, the query string becomes ?rel=0&vq=hd720 which breaks the functionality.
How can I get WordPress to stop changing my link on this particular embed code in this post?
Edit: I can stay in Text-mode and delete the amp; from my embed code and click Update. But then when I view source, WP has changed it to &, which again breaks the functionality.
Change to the 'Text' tab on the post editor, edit your embed code url and save the post.
The button should be on the top right corner of the editor.
I am developing a theme for WordPress 3.6 and as far as I know embedded links, like if just place a link into the post for YouTube it should auto embed its self. that's not the case here - would any one know what would cause links from services like YouTube to not embed?
[embed][/embed] doesn't work either...
Make sure the YouTube link is not hyperlinked. If the URL is shown in
your theme’s link color (as the second line in the screenshot below),
then it is hyperlinked. Simply select the whole URL and click the
“Unlink” icon on your Visual Editor toolbar.
Once the URL is unlinked, you will see the link text in black. Make
sure to place the YouTube URL or shortcode on its own line. This
means there should be no character or whitespace before or after the
URL/shortcode.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/shortcodes/
However, beyond those issues you might want to look into. the API that WP uses to embed links from YouTube, Twitter, Flicker...
http://oembed.com/
oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites. The simple API allows a website to display embedded content (such as photos or videos) when a user posts a link to that resource, without having to parse the resource directly.
Unlink the link if it's linked and use the shortcode :
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/XXXX] and that will work.
My main idea is that when i do a google search on my company's info, it keeps showing the latest post made. I would like to make the info the same everytime i do a google search. That will definitely show a good image of my company. I am using wordpress to run my company's website. I need some guidance on this... Thanks... Please pardon me if this is a stupid question. If there is other ways of doing this, instead of using wordpress, do tell me... Will be very happy to hear some suggestions...
This is a great question, and I think that there are a couple ways you could do it.
The first way that came to mind is to use your site's meta description on your home page. Your meta description is the 156 characters that appear in black letters underneath your site title in the search results.
If you want your meta description to be static and unchanging, just like LinkedIn, you can set your meta description without any coding knowledge using Yoast's Wordpress SEO Plugin. After you install it, edit your home page in Wordpress Admin and set the meta description to be your desired text. You can set the meta description for every page on your site, and each one will display the corresponding description in the search results.
If you want your meta description to be the latest post, you will either need to change the meta description for the homepage manually every time you write a new post, or you could write up some code to automatically generate the meta description from the first 156 characters of your latest blog post.
But, there is a second method that might work better. For an example site, I did a Google search for CSSTricks.com. Notice that it appears that Google is automatically pulling in their latest post without them having to do any hoopla with the meta description.
So, I went to CSSTricks using Google Chrome and did a right-click -> Inspect Element to view the source of the web page, to see how they were doing it. (You may need to open the below image in a new tab or save it to your computer to be able to read the code, because it is so small)
They do not have any meta description on their site, but they are using the HTML5 article tag. It appears that Google is pulling in the first p tag nested inside the article tag, and then displaying that as the black text in place of the meta description. So theoretically, if this is indeed how it works, what you need to do is write the markup of your home page so that it displays the post content using the article tag with a nested p tag, just as they have done.
Hope this helps!
I am maintaining a wordpress blog and am familiar with using the og:image meta tag to set the default image that is included when a like button is pressed. What I want to know is if there is a way to make this image dynamic based on the item liked.
I am trying to build it so that the first image in a particular blog post that is liked is what is pushed to the facebook feed post, with the blog's default image only used if there is no image in the post. Does facebook provide any way to do this with the graph api?
I tried writing javascript to change the meta tag on article pages (rather than the homepage) but found out later the crawler does not run javascript, so am now considering implementing the same but server side with PHP. This still would not solve the problem of Likes from the blog homepage, where there are multiple blog items on the page though. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
The only is changing how the meta tags get rendered to the client, in server code or in your layout template. There is no graph api method for this and you can't modify the tags with javascript as their scraper doesn't execute javascript.
Also, the scraper won't keep re-visiting your site so once it access it, it will be cached until you go to the url linter tool manually. so for the home page, you would probably just want the default image.