[wp-testers] youtube shortcode

[Brent Logan]

Or grab the Easy Tube plugin.

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:25 PM, Andrew Ozz <admin at laptoptips.ca> wrote:

> px wrote:
> > Matt Mullenweg wrote:
> >> The most popular shortcode we've done thus far is a youtube one, which
> >> is like [youtube http://youtube.com/?v=aoeuaoue]. This gets expanded,
> > After reading that on this list, I immediately tried a youtube test post
> > on my blog running 2.5rc2.  it didn't embed. :(
> >
> > A search led me to here
> > http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/07/29/how-do-i-post-a-youtube-video/
> > but that makes me think it's only for WordPress.com blogs.
> >
> > any chance this shortcode will make it into the WordPress trunk for
> > general users?
> >
> > I was kind of hoping the new add video feature would have been like
> that.
>
> Not sure about the shortcode, seems too late for new features, even
> small ones, however adding youtube videos is quite easy in 2.5. Either
> paste the link youtube gives in its sidebar directly in HTML mode, or
> paste the url of the page in the "Media" popup available from the second
> toolbar row in TinyMCE.
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