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1. douglerner
   Member
   Jun 1, 2012, 9:51 AM

   I just noticed that some of the older posts I imported from Posterous containing youtube links are missing the links.

   For example, compare:

   http://douglerner.com/blog/2007/12/30/a-few-minutes-with-hao-chan

   at Posterous with

   http://douglerner.wordpress.com/2007/12/30/a-few-minutes-with-hao-chan/

   here at wordpress.com.

   Is there anything I can do about that? I think maybe all the imported ones with youtube links are missing the links. Sigh.

   Thanks,

   doug

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

2. timethief
   Member
   Jun 2, 2012, 1:15 AM

   Hello there,
   I flagged this thread for response form Staff.

3. douglerner
   Member
   Jun 2, 2012, 1:24 AM

   Thanks, Timethief.

   The same problem didn't seem to happen with newer imported posts, like from 2009.

   doug

4. timethief
   Member
   Jun 2, 2012, 1:29 AM

   Thanks for the additional information for Staff.

5. macmanx
   Happiness Engineer
   Jun 2, 2012, 5:35 AM

   It looks like these were embedded with Youtube's old Flash embed code, so we don't have a way to translate it since we can't allow Flash here.

   About how many posts were affected?

6. douglerner
   Member
   Jun 2, 2012, 5:52 AM

   Thanks for checking.

   I'm not sure how many there are. I'll just go through them one-by-one over time and edit them.

   It may not be a priority here, because the links are so old, but it looks from the source like they would be straightforward to translate.

   One of the attributes is

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kViOhvOY7qA&feature=player_embedded

   and the YouTube video URL is right there:

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kViOhvOY7qA

   Just thought I'd point that out. :)

   Thanks,

   doug

7. macmanx
   Happiness Engineer
   Jun 2, 2012, 10:05 PM

   How ever they embedded originally? Was it via embed code off of Youtube.com?

8. douglerner
   Member
   Jun 3, 2012, 1:09 AM

   To tell the truth I don't remember. It was almost 5 years ago. It's possible it was via the embed code off of Youtube.com.

   Thanks,

   doug

9. macmanx
   Happiness Engineer
   Jun 3, 2012, 6:46 AM

   That is more than likely it. We may be able to fix this in the future, but won't be able to re-import the affected posts.

   For now, I recommend just changing those manually.

10. douglerner
    Member
    Jun 3, 2012, 6:48 AM

    Yes, that's what I'll do. Thanks.

    doug

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