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3 hrs finding out how to post Youtube Playlist!

  1. aliceharding
    Member

    Not a happy bunny at the moment. I only started blogging three weeks ago, and it's been fairly ok until now but I've just spent three hours spent trying to find a method of putting a Youtube playlist into a post which should be very straightforward but actually isn't. There are many old posts on WordPress forums and on Youtube which don't work at all, but could not find one that did. I know it is only a matter of finding the right code and pasting in the number of the playlist taken out of the URL, but the two posts I have found giving the code do not work. I'd be grateful if someone knows the answer to this. Thanks.

    The blog I need help with is endtimesinformation.wordpress.com.

  2. justpi
    Member

    The answer is here and, contrary to what you think, the instructions do work:
    http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/inserting-a-series-of-youtube-videos/

  3. aliceharding
    Member

    Thank you for your reply.

    Well that was the first one I tried. This is the code there:

    [gigya src="http://www.youtube.com/p/NUMBER?hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="385" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" ]

    This is the playlist I want to put on the blog:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-njOl5r6G8&list=PLA9C7276BCC5E2AF3&feature=mh_lolz

    I understand that I need to take the PL out, but probably not the following A? I tried different combinations but none actually worked.

    I've just tried it again, leaving in the A at the beginning and the ampisand at the end, still no result.

    Thanks.

  4. raincoaster
    Member

    Your code doesn't look anything like his code. Please post the exact code you're using here. There's nowhere for "list" in his code, for instance.

  5. justpi
    Member

    This is what you need to paste in place of NUMBER:
    A9C7276BCC5E2AF3

  6. justpi
    Member

    By the way, you need to correct your username link.

  7. aliceharding
    Member

    [gigya src="http://www.youtube.com/p/A9C7276BCC5E2AF3?hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="385" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" ]

    worked. Thank you so much.

    I wasted well over an hour on out of date Youtube tutorials.

    Sorry but I don't understand what the user name link is that needs to be fixed?

  8. raincoaster
    Member

    It says that blog does not exist:

    http://en.wordpress.com/typo/?subdomain=susanharding7

  9. thesacredpath
    Member

    In your dashboard, go to users > personal settings and in the "account info" section under "website," put in the correct URL for your site here and save.

  10. aliceharding
    Member

    Thank you for all your help.

  11. wakeyup
    Member

    Thank you so much! I also spent wayyyy to much time trying to figure out how to embed my youtube playlist now that youtube no longer includes the old embed codes as a playlist option. Thanks!!

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