Comments on: Embedding Youtube The Easy Way

By: ia

ia — Fri, 18 May 2007 21:17:31 +0000

Here's a clue as to why the tag gets altered. It seems to be a bug in the TinyMCE editor that's *supposed* to be fixed already.

By: benj

benj — Fri, 18 May 2007 10:26:51 +0000

Alex, the embed code usually gets altered once you switch views to the visual editor. If you’re not using the visual editor then good. But if you’re one of us unfortunate sods who don’t hard code our posts, the plugins could definitely prove to be of great assistance.

Thank you for dropping by Alex.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 18 May 2007 10:24:11 +0000

I suggest just copying and pasting the embed code. If it so happens that you need to upgrade your engine (say, WordPress), at least you don’t have to worry if the plug-in’s compatible or not. Besides, you’ll just be copying and pasting anyway.

By: benj

benj — Fri, 18 May 2007 08:23:03 +0000

Hi Rory! Thanks for clearing that up. Unfortunately, no it doesn’t. You may use this instead.
Easytube

This would enable you to embed both youtube and google videos.

Thank you to the both of you! As you could see, we’re just starting anew with a spanking new lineup of writers. It’s great to have some comments here! Yay!

By: magneticBLUE

magneticBLUE — Fri, 18 May 2007 07:56:26 +0000

Oops, ok

By: Rory

Rory — Fri, 18 May 2007 07:50:36 +0000

Thank you for clearing up some of those points, mBLUE, I really appreciate it.

I should have made it a bit clearer: The first part of my question – Does your suggestion here work for Google Video, or any other? And does it mean the HTML validation issue is overcome? – was aimed at benj’s original post.

By: magneticBLUE

magneticBLUE — Fri, 18 May 2007 07:29:44 +0000

Hello Rory,

There’s no hotlinking. When you blog an image, PostSome server creates a copy of the image on the fly, and sends PostSome URL to your blog.

For example…
If I blog an image from this page, say, (http://www.blog-tutorials.com/wp-content/themes/wp_BT/images/feature4.jpg) it will become like this: (http://PostSome.com/images/12123123.jpg) Test it. You’ll see. There’re no worries for anyone.

“Otherwise, it looks interesting – especially if it had the facility to save as â€œdraftâ€.”

Hmm, interesting… I like this idea very much. Looks like It can be done.

“Does your suggestion here work for Google Video”

Yes., works with Google and all other 28 known video sharing websites.

“And does it mean the HTML validation issue is overcome?”

Yes and no.

Yes… Every post you have with PostSome button, transfers directly to your blog, without validation of “Rich Text Editor”. Of course WordPress validates the code, and it has to be, but as long as you host your own blog you can embed videos directly in your posts.

No… If you have to use Rich Text Editor, when you need to edit your posts, let’s say a draft post, it will be validated by RTE.

No… If you have a WordPress.com or WordPress.org blog, you cannot post video embedded blog entries with help of PostSome.com. Other features like posting image or quoting works well.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

By: Rory

Rory — Fri, 18 May 2007 06:49:06 +0000

Does your suggestion here work for Google Video, or any other? And does it mean the HTML validation issue is overcome?

Having just watched the postsome video, I was a bit concerned about the blatant hot-linking concerns, particularly with regard to the pictures. I’m not sure Copyblogger (for example) would appreciate bloggers linking directly to pictures stored on his server. Same applies to Flickr.

Otherwise, it looks interesting – especially if it had the facility to save as “draft”.

By: benj

benj — Thu, 17 May 2007 15:54:14 +0000

Thanks for sharing magneticblue! I’m checking it out right now. It looks very promising. Please do come back for more updates here at Blog Tutorials. Who knows, we might even feature this in the near future.

Cheers!

By: magneticBLUE

magneticBLUE — Thu, 17 May 2007 13:37:42 +0000

Thank you for sharing this information.

Iâ€™d like to suggest for another video embed solution. Actually not only videosâ€¦ Images and quotes from any web page, directly to any WordPress blog. Best of all, itâ€™s not a plugin, itâ€™s a bookmarklet. You drag & drop it to your bookmark bar and then, when you see a video or image, or some text worth to quote, click the bookmarklet and thatâ€™s all. For more information, please visit:

http://postsome.com/