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kathrynwp on "embedded youtube videos not displaying at full width"

kathrynwp — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:40:52 +0000

You're very welcome and hug sent. :-)

thistimethisspace on "embedded youtube videos not displaying at full width"

thistimethisspace — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:34:37 +0000

Hi again Kathryn,
You can send that developer a cyber {HUG} from me.
Thanks for your help. It's appreciated.

kathrynwp on "embedded youtube videos not displaying at full width"

kathrynwp — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:32:17 +0000

You nailed it! Thanks so much.

Oh, good! My pleasure. :-)

One of our developers tracked down the culprit causing the video issue - it was some old maximum width settings in the database that had to be removed manually. The video widths should be back to normal now - feel free to reset your header, widgets, etc.

thistimethisspace on "embedded youtube videos not displaying at full width"

thistimethisspace — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:14:22 +0000

I have now placed a single empty text widget at the top of the sidebar to remove the meta and archives widget default display.

thistimethisspace on "embedded youtube videos not displaying at full width"

thistimethisspace — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:22:19 +0000

@re: gravatar issue
You nailed it! Thanks so much.

thistimethisspace on "embedded youtube videos not displaying at full width"

thistimethisspace — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:20:46 +0000

Welcome back :)
I have:
1. switched back to Misty Lake
2. moved all widgets to the Inactive Widgets box
3. removed background image
4. removed header image

Results - no change
see here and note the size of the youtubes > http://thistimethisspace.com/2013/02/24/islands-of-sorrow-oceans-of-grief/

kathrynwp on "embedded youtube videos not displaying at full width"

kathrynwp — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:58:14 +0000

On this comment - I noticed that the email used when leaving the comment seems to be missing an "s" in this bit - "thispace".

Would you mind taking a look here and seeing if that could be the culprit?

This would also explain why you were prompted to approve some of your own comments, since the email used when leaving those comments is not connected to any WordPress.com user accounts, which would result in a blank avatar. (Your default avatar is set to blank under Settings > Discussion.)

Let me know if this solves those two mysteries!

kathrynwp on "embedded youtube videos not displaying at full width"

kathrynwp — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:52:12 +0000

Hi there - thanks for letting me know you switched themes!

Like Zandy, I haven't been able to reproduce the issue with video embeds going awry on one of my test sites running Misty Lake. To rule out a widget conflict, if you don't mind switching back to Misty Lake temporarily, would you be able to temporarily move your widgets to the Inactive area and see if that makes a difference?

If it doesn't help, would you mind switching your theme back to Misty Lake so I can take a look at the code myself and do some further troubleshooting? Or, I could do a quick temporary theme switch at this end, and change it back to Sundance after. Let me know - thanks! I will reply on your other issues separately.

timethief on "embedded youtube videos not displaying at full width"

timethief — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 05:00:53 +0000

This is an update to let you know I switched themes temporarily to Sundance which is displaying the videos at full width.

zandyring on "embedded youtube videos not displaying at full width"

zandyring — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:45:37 +0000

I'm still looking into the original problem and no progress so far - I just want to keep you in the loop. I've noted the other two issues as well.

timethief on "embedded youtube videos not displaying at full width"

timethief — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:54:38 +0000

I have a third issue. I am being compelled to approve my own responses to comments. This is happening to me when I am logged in under my email address for my thistimethisspace account on this blog http://thistimethisspace.com despite the fact I am logged in under the correct username account.

timethief on "embedded youtube videos not displaying at full width"

timethief — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:00:09 +0000

There's something else funky about that same blog at http://thistimethisspace.com I noticed that my gravatar is no longer appearing when I answer comments.

In the cases my grvatar which is the same image for both username accounts does not appear in I'm logged in under the email address for that account and using my display name which is "timethief".
Examples here > http://thistimethisspace.com/2013/02/13/favorite-valentines-day-song-2013/#comment-13549

thistimethisspace on "embedded youtube videos not displaying at full width"

thistimethisspace — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:32:27 +0000

There's something very weird about the differences between the video display size on the two blogs. Thank you so much for taking a closer look, because not being able to determine what's wrong and how to fix it is making my head hurt.

zandyring on "embedded youtube videos not displaying at full width"

zandyring — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:44:17 +0000

I just did a check and I'm seeing the size getting limited, but it is apparently just this particular blog - I can't recreate (I made a draft post which you can delete, btw).

I'll be taking a closer look - I am sorry, TT!

timethief on "embedded youtube videos not displaying at full width"

timethief — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:20:16 +0000

Although I am using the same theme, Misty Lake on two blogs and both blogs have the same settings here > Settings > Media, the embedded youtube videos display at full width on this site http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com example here > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/02/13/more-traffic-and-backlinks-for-your-blog-awards-and-memes/ but do not display at full width in the other blog example here http://thistimethisspace.com/2013/02/13/favorite-valentines-day-song-2013/