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You Tube Links have disappeared

  1. archiearchive
    Member

    Since the Dashboard Maintainance today, it seems the youtube links no longer work. I have simply got a blank white square in place of what was originally a youtube link. I have noticed it on other WP'ers who use youtube links and I have had comments from my readers. Any clues as to whether it is just me or if there is a major problems with video links?

  2. nitawriter
    Member

    Same problem here! I also checked the UTube site. they are doing some maintenance too. Maybe something is wrong at their end?

  3. barry
    Staff

    The blank videos are related to the scheduled YouTube maintenance, not the WordPress.com maintenance.

  4. raincoaster
    Member

    Mine seem to be back now. Check yours again. If they're still white I've got a suggestion. Sometimes you get the white boxes if your cache is full, so cleaning it out and restarting always fixes that for me.

  5. nitawriter
    Member

    Mine have come back.

  6. archiearchive
    Member

    It all seems to be working after a cache clearance.

    Thanks, all.

  7. nitawriter
    Member

    Hullo. My Utube links have gone again. Anyone else experiencing this problem?
    A minute later: I just went to check raincoaster's tube links. His are blank too. Wondering what's wrong with UTube? Are they doing this only to the WordPress Blogs?

  8. raincoaster
    Member

    They load fine for me now. YouTube is a glitchy thing.

  9. nitawriter
    Member

    Mine is okay now.

  10. oclcyc
    Member

    Mine are all gone

  11. oclcyc
    Member

    Mine are all gone, but only in Internet Explorer, Firefox works OK.

    This is weird...

  12. savetheoc
    Member

    Mine are still not working.

  13. oclcyc
    Member

    Just installed IE7, still no dice. Firefox still working, though.

    It looks like some issue with IE+wordpress, as I'm seeing embeds with IE ok in other blogs (blogger, for example)...

  14. carocat
    Member

    "Mine are all gone, but only in Internet Explorer, Firefox works OK.

    This is weird... "

    Same here. That's all of the latest IE versions....

  15. raincoaster
    Member

    I bet this is a YouTube issue, not WordPress. It seems when anybody upgrades their system it's messy in IE (Technorati has a similar issue) but if they hear from enough users they'll fix it pronto.

  16. travelingapostrophe
    Member

    Ours disappeared too! I dont know why, but it is definitely really annoying! It's as if it was an image that was not loading, with the red x in a square in the top left corner.

  17. timethief
    Member

    @travelinggap
    Don't forget to send in a support request at Youtube.

  18. nitawriter
    Member

    Mine have gone again. Looks like it's a big problem.And I just wrote in feedback that it's okay!!
    And this time there is no white square. It's just grey with a little red cross in the top left hand corner.

  19. tomeppy
    Member

    Mine are gone too.

  20. timethief
    Member

    Maybe the problem is wide spread. How about posting in the unofficial youtube support forum? http://www.youtubeforums.com/ And sending an email to the official one http://www.youtube.com/

  21. lloydbudd
    Member

    Yes, the continuing erratic problem appears to be on You Tube's side.

  22. pingjui
    Member

    Mine is gone , too.

  23. nosysnoop
    Member

    Blame Google. They bought it and then destroyed it.

  24. fixer123
    Member

    This is unbelievable! This is absolutely 100% WordPress's fault, and I know how you can fix it.

    There's a stray "p" tag in the embedded object html code that's generated by WordPress that breaks Internet Explorer but not Firefox.

    I was able to discover and verify this within 5 minutes by saving the html source of my wife's blog home page and removing those stray tags.

  25. cosmochickconfessions
    Member

    mine as well. boo hoo!

  26. raincoaster
    Member

    I just checked and it isn't the case for my blog. Check on an individual basis; perhaps it's happening when the posts are made in IE. I had some stray code attached a few days ago, but have been posting in Firefox lately and no extra tags have been added.

  27. oclcyc
    Member

    I do all my posts with Performancing and Firefox and have the problem.

    I tried creating a post from scratch in the visual editor, the problem was still there... :(

  28. oclcyc
    Member

    Also, maybe the [resolved] label should be removed from this thread...?

  29. carocat
    Member

    It still doesn't appear on my blog. All the posts have been written with FF over the last months and are visible with FF. I know that most of the people reading my blog don't use FF though.

  30. raincoaster
    Member

    At YouTube itself today, I noticed a few problems; random bits of code appearing on pages, etc. Double-check your own posts to make sure there's no extraneous code and if it's still a problem, drop YouTube a line. I'm going to check my blog out with IE6 in a few hours. My readers are complaining they can't see anything with IE.

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