Sometimes Things Are Just Too Hard
As much as I love WordPress, I’m stunned at how some of the simplest things don’t seem to work properly, and how no third party developer has stepped up and filled the gap with a simple tool. YouTube videos for example: when I embed them directly into this blog using the code provided by YouTube, the layout breaks and the videos don’t work. I tried one plug-in, and it didn’t work at all. I tried another plug-in, and it worked, but also pulled in all of my recent videos instead of just displaying one. Finally, I looked at this one and it seemed very promising. I installed it, then discovered that my server doesn’t have Curl installed – I use Cpanel, and it’s all automated, so I’m not about to install something new on my server just to use this one plug-in. Why is this so hard? It’s the WordPress plug-in design schema so difficult that no one can create a simple, flexible tool to accomplish this one thing?
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January 7th, 2007 at 2:55 am
Ha, and I thought I was doing something wrong when the inserted (well, as it turned out, not quite…) youtube video messed up my page. Gotta try that plugin, thanks for that.
January 7th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
Try disabling the rich-text editor. That was the culprit when I ran into the same problem before.
January 8th, 2007 at 3:05 am
You know, I tried disabling the rich-text editor, but when I did so in the options and came back to the Write a Post page, the rich text editor was back. Very strange!
January 8th, 2007 at 9:43 am
I think there are two locations to disable the rich-text editor. One is under Options -> Writing (first checkbox under Formatting) and another is per user, Users -> Your Profile (last checkbox on the bottom). Hopefully, that works.
January 8th, 2007 at 9:57 am
Aha. Good to know. I ended up using Live Writer and a plugin that works like a charm getting YouTube videos into the blog.