Embed Media URLs in TextArea and html fields does not work

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  • January 27, 2020 at 9:26 am #527473

    jotomas
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    Hello,

    I am trying to embed media in TextArea and html fields. I marked the “Embed Media URLs:” checkbox and I tried adding YouTube and Vimeo URLs, but the media does not show when previewing or viewing the listing. Only the URL text appears instead.

    I tried the same YouTube and Vimeo video URLs in a Video field and they are shown correctly.

    What I could be doing wrong?

    I look forward to your reply.

    Thank you very much once again for your help.

    Best regards.

    January 27, 2020 at 6:34 pm #527540

    Alex Rollin
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    Please share a couple of the URLs here so we can test them

    thanks

    January 27, 2020 at 6:55 pm #527546

    jotomas
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    Hi Alex,

    Thank you very much for your response.

    I have not used any specific video to try. I simply used the sharing links of the first random public videos I got when opening YouTube and Vimeo.

    I look forward to your news.

    Thank you very much once again for your help.

    Best regards.

    January 27, 2020 at 9:27 pm #527583

    Alex Rollin
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    Vimeo with URLs like this work for me: https://vimeo.com/232947277
    Youtube with URLs like this work for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0X60Hgf-kY

    Let us know more about the issue and include links to a test listing and login credentials if we need to check the settings.

    These are the list of providers supported by WP.
    Support is from WP, not GD.
    For the list of sites supported, unfortunately it is not as detailed as I would like. It seems not all sharing URLs from all services are always supported.

    https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds

    January 29, 2020 at 7:08 am #527804

    jotomas
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    January 29, 2020 at 7:16 am #527806

    jotomas
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    January 29, 2020 at 8:30 am #527817

    Kor
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    Hi jotomas,

    Thanks for your reply. Are you referring to these links as shown in the attached? Also, these are not video fields.

    January 29, 2020 at 9:00 am #527820

    jotomas
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    Hi Kor,

    Thank you very much for your reply.

    I know that these are not video fields. As I said in my first post of this thread:

    “I am trying to embed media in TextArea and html fields. I marked the “Embed Media URLs:” checkbox and I tried adding YouTube and Vimeo URLs, but the media does not show when previewing or viewing the listing. Only the URL text appears instead.

    I tried the same YouTube and Vimeo video URLs in a Video field and they are shown correctly.”

    I look forward to your news.

    Thank you very much once again for your help.

    Best regards.

    January 29, 2020 at 9:16 am #527826

    Alex Rollin
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    Can you tell us the steps to repeat the issue? I have tested and cannot see this issue on my test site.

    January 31, 2020 at 8:35 am #528172

    jotomas
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    Hi Alex,

    Thank you very much for your response.

    After testing more in detail, I have found that the issue is only with html fields.

    With their “Embed Media URLs:” checkbox marked or unmarked the behaviour is the same: inserting a video URL adding a listing from the WP backend shows immediately the video replacing the URL and shows also the video in the preview, but not in the published listing. Then, the videos can not be deleted because the “edit / delete” small box shows only for a fraction of second.

    Adding a listing from the frontend, the only difference is that the videos are not shown immediately replacing the URL, but only in the preview, but not in the published listing.

    I look forward to your news.

    Thank you very much once again for your help.

    Best regards.

    January 31, 2020 at 4:32 pm #528257

    Alex Rollin
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    I see. Well, one solution is to do follow the recommendation to use textarea fields for embeds. Have you tried that?

    February 1, 2020 at 6:50 am #528329

    jotomas
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    Hi Alex,

    Thank you very much for your response.

    Yes, obviously that is a solution. I just wanted to point out that the “Embed Media URLs:” checkbox in html fields does not seem to perform correctly, so it looks misinformative or as a bug to be solved.

    Thank you very much once again for your help.

    Best regards.

    February 1, 2020 at 1:25 pm #528359

    Alex Rollin
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    I’ve made a task for the developers to fix that.

    We will post an update here

    February 1, 2020 at 2:58 pm #528364

    jotomas
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    Hi Alex,

    Ok. Thanks a lot.

    I look forward to your news.

    Best regards.

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