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Little Help With Youtube Embed

BH Bill Hinostroza
Bill Hinostroza
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Member since Jul 2013
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Jul 17, 2013 · 9:18 pm · Edited

Hello, I know that this forum doesn’t support Youtubes’ Iframe so we have to put the full link such as ‘http: blah blah’ but when I do that the video gets awfully big and also I have that plugin that automatically posts a topic on your forum when you publish your post but when I embed a youtube video on my blog i use the shortcode like this [youtube= blah blah bah] but it doesn’t show when I automatically post it so my question is.

 

How do I get this shortcode [youtube= blah blah blah] to work on the forum? Also, how can I change/customize the size of the video on the forum not blog post? 

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MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
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Jul 17, 2013 · 10:16 pm

have you enabled the youtube shortcode in the forum? its on forum – options – content settings… you have to tell which shortcodes you want to enable since any user could use them…

BH Bill Hinostroza
Bill Hinostroza
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Member since Jul 2013
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Jul 18, 2013 · 6:00 pm

Ahh yes okay found it! Thank you so much! I also have another question.

There is a conflict betweens wordpress social profile and simplepress profile.

WordPress asks for the whole url of your social profile like http://www.twitter.com/blablah

Meanwhile simplepress ask just for the name.

How can I change the settings where the user inputs there whole url instead of just the name?

 

I’ll manually change the code if you tell me which files I have to modify because I tried searching for the files but I couldn’t exactly which was which.

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
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Jul 19, 2013 · 12:59 am

we have no way to change that… short of modifying core code which sucks…

but they are in simple-press/forum/content/sp-topic-view-functions.php…  you will need to modify each identity function that you want to change, ie sp_PostIndexUserTwitter()

actually, you could do this with some smart filtering…  for the twitter routine I just mentioned, you could use our filter ‘sph_PostIndexUserTwitter’ and remove the double url… that is is a user entered http://twitter.com/myname for their identity, it would end up http://twitter.com/problem-with-post-edit-buttonttp://twitter.com/myname…  so you could filter that and replace it with the proper url…