Posting YouTube Videos to WordPress Blogs

by Keiron on January 16, 2007

Because of the way wordpress corrects invalid XHTML this is the best way to post YouTube videos…..

YouTube suggests:


<object height="350" width="425">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rCOx24TsBPI"></param>
<param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param></object> <object height="350" width="425">
<param value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rCOx24TsBPI" name="movie"></param>
<param value="transparent" name="wmode"></param></object>
Convert this to:


<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/rCOx24TsBPI" height="350" width="425">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rCOx24TsBPI"></param> </object>

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