Smart Youtube

Smart Youtube is a WordPress Youtube plugin that allows you to easily insert Youtube videos/playlists into your post, comments and in your RSS feed. The plugin is designed to be small and fast and not use any external resources.

From version 2.0 Smart youtube also supports playback of high quality videos, works on iPhone, produces xHTML valid code (unlike YouTube embed code), allows you to view videos in fullscreen and most recently has support for YouTube playlists.

The videos will be embedded in your RSS feed as well, and if this is not support by the reader you can choose to have video link and/or video preview screenshot displayed instead.

Main Features

Example

You can discuss all plugin related issues in the wordpress plugin forums.

Screenshot

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Download

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Installation & Usage

  1. Upload the whole plugin folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
  2. Go to the Plugins page and activate the plugin.
  3. Use the Options page to change RSS feed options
  4. When you want to display Youtube video in your post, paste the video link with httpv:// (notice the 'v')

Example: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00000000
0000000 part is your video REF#

The video will be automatically embedded to your post in the proper way.

If you want want to display a high quality video then just use httpvh:// instead.

If you want to post a HD (DVD quality, 720p) quality video you would use httpvhd:// ('vhd' for video high definition)

To embed a playlist use extension 'vp' (eg. httpvp://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=528026B4F7B34094)

To use video deep linking just add &start=time parameter at the end of url. For example httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWfksMD4PAg&start=30 will start the video 30 seconds in.

Additionally, you can set how do you want the video to be displayed in your RSS feed. Smart Youtube can show the preview image of the video (automatically grabbed from Youtube), the link to the video, or both. I recommend enabling only the preview image.

Changelog

v3.2
- Added title to widget, fixed HTML code issue with widget

v3.1.1
- param closed properly for HTML validation (thanks Jan Eberl)

v3.1
- wmode transparent parameter updated to better handle transparancy

V3.0

- Added video template, option to set sidebar video size, fixed sidebar widget code, fixed video syntax issue
v2.8
- Supports Playlists

v2.7
- Added support for sidebar widget videos

v2.6:
- Added option to disable search box

v2.5:
- Support for 720p HD (DVD quality) YouTube videos. Use httpvhd://

v2.4:
- Supports video deep linking. Just add &start=time parameter at the end of url. For example httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWfksMD4PAg&start=30 will start the video 30 seconds in

v2.3:
- xHTML valid code is now an option because it breaks videos in some browsers and feeds

v2.1:
- Smart Youtube videos are compatible with iPhone.
- Fullscreen enabled

v2.0:
Suport for high quality videos from youtube

v1.91:
Rewritten old parts of plugin and general tweaks.

v1.9:
Added video autoplay option.

v1.8:
Solved problem with HTML validation, added full video in RSS feed.

v1.6:
Solved problem with WordPress handling special characters.

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  1. Betsy 06.26.09 / 11pm

    Hi -- I set up this plugin for a client and it's great. One question: Is it possible to use the sidebar widget on more than one sidebar? I have a sidebar1 for my home page and post pages, and sidebar2 that i use on some special pages. But the sidebar widget is not available to add to the 2nd sidebar, now that i've used it on sidebar1. THANKS!

  2. Steven 06.25.09 / 12pm

    Why do my visitors get redirected to youtube when they click on one particular video I posted?

    The other videos are shown standardly but by this one http://www.franzbrandtner.com/songs/johann-pachelbel-kanon-in-d-dur/ my visitors are taken to youtube and are shown the video directly on youtube.

    Why is that so? I of course don't want that at all.

  3. Omar Salgado 06.23.09 / 3am

    Shiraz is right, it works only on IE however it does not work for me on opera, safari, firefox. I tried to break up the hyperlinks but it disapeared the video frame and put a mistaken link. Where is the mistake on the address?

    Any ideas?

    Thanks!!

  4. Jim 06.21.09 / 4pm

    @Omar Salgado & @shiraz - I had the same problem. Break the hyperlink so it reads as a non-underlined link. That should fix it.

  5. Don 06.21.09 / 12pm

    @ Omar Salgado - You obviously put in the wrong URL.

    @ shiraz - Just checked your site using Mozilla, worked fine for me.

    Happy Trails. . .

  6. shiraz 06.21.09 / 6am

    The plugin is good i realize that when using IE and safari it work find but when using Mozilla when play the video it jump to Youtube website.

    Thanks in advance

  7. Omar Salgado 06.21.09 / 5am

    Hi:

    I am using the pluging but I noticed recently that when I click play on video instead of playing the videos on my webpage it loads the video in youtube web page, what is it wrong?

  8. Jack Speare 06.18.09 / 5pm

    The latest version of the plugin doesn't work. it double-posts videos and leaves extra coding clutter!

    http://i41.tinypic.com/eal3xd.png

    Please fix this. The plugin worked great beforehand!

  9. Don 06.16.09 / 5am

    Upgraded to WP 2.8 a couple days ago and have not had a problem with this plugin, works great as always. Thanks, Vlad

  10. Tischk 06.16.09 / 1am

    Using this on all my blogs. Very good plugin. Thank you a lot.

  11. Dean 06.13.09 / 12am

    Great plugin. Only thing I can't figure out is how to embed a playlist AND have it be high quality. Seems like you can do one or the other, but not both. Suggestions?

  12. Troy 06.11.09 / 2pm

    I have add "&hd=1" to vhd parameters, for activate HD-button.
    (case 'vhd': $high="&ap=%2526fmt%3D22"; break;)

    greez

  13. Mosh 06.11.09 / 1pm

    Hey Vlad,

    Just wondering if you're aware of any issues with WordPress 2.8? If I have Smart YouTube enabled then it causes issues with the Dashboard when I log in - stops some of the windows appearing and disables the popup menus.

    I'm just trying to find out if this is just me!

  14. bnard 06.10.09 / 9am

    hi,

    i would like to know if your plugin can add the latest video post on my homepage?

  15. Dave 06.09.09 / 5pm

    am trying to post at the plugin forum, but not having any luck, nothing happens when i click submit new post.

    Anyway. . .am having some issues with the plugin, despite it being overly awesome. When i look at a post in google reader at home, it shows the embed, plus the thumbnail. When i look at work, it shows only the thumbnail. Very strange, I have no idea why. Very strange, both using FF3, and I think both are using Flash 10, not sure what other differences there would be.

    The problem is that the thumbnail links to youtube. Is there a way to just link the thumbnail to my post? It seems a lot of people are asking this, but I've already read so much, and not seen an answer.

    And, I know I've already asked, but if anyone is aware of how to automatically use the thumbnail in your theme, please let me know. I'd like to automatically use thumbnail on homepage, linking to post with embed.

    Thanks vlad + community!
    Dave

  16. Manuel Dietrich 06.07.09 / 9pm

    Hello!

    You should add "case 'vh+': $high="&ap=%2526fmt%3D35"; break;" in your code!
    There are four quality-modes on youtube right now: Standard, High Quality (fmt18), High Quality + (fmt35) and 720p (fmt22).

    An example for fmt35 is one of my videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsC0iIDUu4Q&fmt=35
    Youtube plays the fmt35 version instead of the fmt18 when you click on the HQ-button in this video!

    Greetz ;)

  17. search and browse top sites in one place 06.07.09 / 6am

    hi vlad,

    i just noticed that my RSS has a thumbnail image, and when someone clicks it, it goes to youtube.

    1) how can i use this thumbnail for frontpage instead of rss???
    2) how can i make the thumbnail in rss go to post instead of youtube???

    thanks!

  18. BR 06.07.09 / 2am

    Hey Vlad! Is there any way to change the embed code so that when someone clicks on the player they are NOT taken to the YouTube site, but instead to a different URL that I could specify?

  19. search and browse top sites in one place 06.06.09 / 8pm

    hi again vlad, thanks for the response
    so far the plugin rocks, been waiting for this

    anyway, in response to your response, if the thumbnail is pulled directly from youtube, is there a way using this plugin, to automatically put an image on the homepage, but the embedded video on the post page? i just want to link a movie in a post, and then if you view the post on the homepage, you see an image, clicking it takes you to the post page, where you see the movie. that would be amazing functionality, never seen something like it and been looking.

    thanks a lot!!

  20. Vladimir 06.06.09 / 8am

    it comes from youtube directly

  21. search and browse top sites in one place 06.06.09 / 12am

    hey, loving the plugin, just a quick question,
    in the settings, at the very bottom, there is an option to display video preview image in RSS feed. Where does this preview come from? I've been looking for a plugin which can automatically create a preview image for the frontpage for a long time.

    Thanks Vlad!

  22. Jim 06.01.09 / 2pm

    Finally figured it out. For those of you having the same problem (videos in posts that automatically redirect to YouTube page), just highlight the YouTube URL in the admin panel for the post and click the Unlink icon. I'm sure Vladimir says something about that somewhere but I missed it. Whew! Problem solved.

  23. Jim 05.29.09 / 4pm

    Vladimir, thanks as always for your bug fixes. Any idea why the videos in my posts go directly over to YouTube in Google Chrome and Firefox? This doesn't seem to happen in Internet Explorer. It's very frustrating. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
    Thanks, Jim

  24. Vladimir 05.29.09 / 12pm

    Widget title, and html code fix implemented in latest version 3.2 out today.

  25. Anak Torokossik 05.29.09 / 9am

    Wow.. great plugin bro..
    I already try it and I can insert my You tube videos into my wordpress blog very easily.
    Thanks For sharing...

  26. James 05.29.09 / 4am

    A title for the widget would be a good addition to this fabulous plugin.

    Also, am I the only one? I can't get HTML codes to work in the widget.

    I'm on Smart Youtube 3.1.1 and IE6

  27. Jim 05.27.09 / 4pm

    In addition to my comment a couple of days ago, when you play the videos in posts on Google Chrome and now Firefox, they take you over to YouTube. This does not happen in IE. The video in the sidebar is fine. This only applies to videos in posts. PLEASE HELP! It's driving me nuts. LOL

    Thanks, Jim
    http://www.filmscoreclicktrack.com

  28. William 05.27.09 / 1pm

    Excellent Plugin! I'm new to blogging and was found your plugin, installation was easy and it only took me a few minutes to get the syntax down for my posts.

    Keep up the good work!

  29. Lia Suzuki 05.26.09 / 8pm

    Great plugin!

    I'm wondering though, if there is the capability to customize the size in different posts. In other words, one size in one post and another size in another post...

  30. Aouni 05.26.09 / 5am

    Still the same problem as stated few months ago:

    Tthe plugin is causing the known "Operation Aborted" error in IE6 & 7. The page stops loading when my blog post

    Thank you.

  31. Jim Lochner 05.23.09 / 1pm

    P.S. It's the videos within the posts, not in the sidebar. Thanks

  32. Jim Lochner 05.23.09 / 1pm

    Same problem as Nick but only in Google Chrome. When I click on the video it takes me to YouTube. Is there a fix for this? It's been working fine for almost 2 months. Now, all of a sudden, it's not. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks, Jim

  33. Helmuth 05.23.09 / 1pm

    Thank yoiu for this plugin ! I couldn´t believe how easy to use it is :D :D

  34. Daniel | AZ Homes 05.23.09 / 12am

    Having a title for the widgets is a must. I have two videos on my wordpress that are side by side and user do not know what each video is about. Other than that, very happy with the plugin!

  35. Don 05.20.09 / 7pm

    @ Nick
    Just visited your site using Firefox version 3.0.10 and the plugin worked just fine whether clicking the play button or that stupid in your face play button in the middle of the video.

    Happy Trails...

  36. Nick 05.20.09 / 1pm

    I am having an issue in firefox with this plugin. each time the user clicks play it redirects to youtube. This only happens in firefox though.

    http://www.wecansaveit.com/deforestation/

  37. allison 05.18.09 / 9pm

    Hi,
    Thank you for the plugin. I was wondering what code would I put in the video template for video appearance if I want to center the video in my post column? Thanks. Im a real beginner, by the way!

    This post has a video in it: http://girlreturnshome.com/psalm-23-for-babies-daddies/?preview=true&preview_id=1913&preview_nonce=ee33169c5f

  38. Maik 05.18.09 / 6am

    Also um Youtube Videos sauber in sein Wordpress Blog zu integrieren ist dieses Plugin wirklich klasse.

  39. Silver 05.14.09 / 12pm

    Great plugin! Thank you, Vlad!

  40. andrew 05.13.09 / 9pm

    The code on the screen reads as such when I went on Mozilla:

    watch?v=dOgupWvXfLU">watch?v=dOgupWvXfLU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355" >

  41. Andrew 05.13.09 / 9pm

    Also, apart from my Options Menu inquiry..have you ever received an issue where the "code is showing"? Purportedly, this is what my friend sees on his screen...

    He is using Mozilla on a Mac. I am using Safari and a MAC w OS X and I see no such code..
    Thoughts anyone?
    -Andrew

  42. Andrew 05.13.09 / 5pm

    I am using your plugin and it kicks ass..I have read the above comments, and many of you are over my head, but I'm learning quickly.

    Sorry to be so lame, but,

    Where is the Options Menu you mentioned??

    Thanks much,
    Andrew

  43. James 05.07.09 / 4pm

    Awesome plugin! Very clean and does what its supposed to do.

    One thing we REALLY wish it had is a button in the editor that a less savvy user of our sites can click to open a popup window, paste the url to the video, choose whether it is normal, HD or a playlist and the plugin then adds the 'v', 'vp' etc to the string itself.

    It seems like it should be pretty easy to implement and I think it would vastly improve the usability of this great plugin. If this is something you would need to do freelance and charge for, please let me know!

    Thanks Vladimir!

  44. Vladimir 05.04.09 / 8pm

    Nice find Mike, I released version 3.1 to reflect this change.

  45. Mike Lyon 05.04.09 / 7pm

    OK -- finally figured it -- smartyoutube.php needs the wmode="transparent" to be set in the EMBED tag in order to work -- this change allows dropdown menus to remain on-top and for thickbox also to remain on top:

    In current version change line 511 and 515 to add wmode="transparent" to the embed tag like this:

    embed wmode="transparent" src="'.htmlspecialchars(...

  46. Mike Lyon 05.04.09 / 6pm

    My drop down menus are hidden behind the smart youtube...

    My theme css sets z-index:9999 for the drop-downs

    How should I adjust my theme so that my drop-down menu remains on top? wmode=transparent exists in the smart youtube code, but doesn't seem to be effective.

    Smart YouTube also floats on top of NextGen Gallery images when displayed in lightbox (enlarged image)...

    Perhaps the wmode=transparent in the smart youtube isn't 'working' ??

    Suggestions?

    Thanks!

    Mike

  47. Desert Monk 05.03.09 / 12pm

    The plugin is awesome and worked quiet well but since they upgraded wordpress, I seem to be getting weird error and captions on embedding youtube vids. you cna check the website and see the article named "Most Awesome Video Ever".

  48. Don 05.01.09 / 5pm

    Titles and ratings are gone again this morning. Plugin is working fine including playlist videos. As google/youtube has been messing with their code again during the last week, ie: moving data between youtube and google servers, some user data is showing incorrectly but this does not effect this plugin. This is one of my favorite plugins. Thanks Vladimir

  49. Federal Firearms License 04.30.09 / 10pm

    This plugin was working fine until last night. I've uninstalled and reinstalled, but i still only see 'an error occured, please try again later'. I checked on youtube, and the videos and my playlist seem to be okay. Any ideas?

  50. Dainis W. Michel 04.30.09 / 4pm

    I tried wp-youtube, because it allows you to set autoplay per video (video profile actually). With smart-youtube activated, I can't get wp-youtube to work, so I just embedded the code of the youtube video I need to autoplay manually and set it to autoplay.

  51. Free Videos 04.30.09 / 7am

    I am also thinking if l can automaticly fetch thumbnails too with the videos.. Cos many of the plugins dosnt allow it.

  52. Joe 04.30.09 / 12am

    Remove Title and Ratings no longer works. I don't know if YouTube changed it, but I noticed just today that the titles and ratings started showing up despite having "disable Titles and Ratings" selected in SmartYouTube...

  53. Michael 04.19.09 / 7pm

    Thank you for the time you have put into this plugin.

    One feature request:

    Enable a "Title" field in the widget, similar to how the standard Text widget works.

    It would be very helpful to simply add a Title to a sidebar video via the widget, instead of having to manually add HTML to do so.

  54. Dainis W. Michel 04.18.09 / 8pm

    Also looking for selective autoplay. Thanks Vladimir! You really put together wonderful tools and resources. :-)

  55. Anthony 04.17.09 / 6pm

    Mine just stopped working also.. Maybe a delete and reinstall
    Will try that next..

    Great plug..

  56. Paul 04.16.09 / 1am

    happened with me too ... the plugin stop working... hopefully it will rectify itself soon

  57. DentNEWS 04.15.09 / 11am

    Hello, great plugin so far... but I experience some problems... Suddendly yesterday the plugin stopped working... Is there any other experiencing the same problem ?

    Just don't know what to do with this. I uninstalled and re-installed but again the videos stopped appearing in the post. Only the address ... :(

  58. SomeBlogger 04.14.09 / 10pm

    This plugin is great, thanks a lot!

  59. Dainis W. Michel 04.14.09 / 12am

    OK, I disabled this plugin, because I figured it had something to do with code line breaks: PS Disable Auto Formatting and it worked, however, I really like using that plugin, because I like being able to paste real HTML into my posts. I'll have to work with this one...ideas?

  60. Dainis W. Michel 04.14.09 / 12am

    Tried xHTML, but the videos show in the sidebar of the Amazing Grace theme in Firefox, and I see a stray rel='nofollow' on all of the posts with videos. The code is somehow getting out of whack.

  61. Dainis W. Michel 04.13.09 / 11pm

    My videos are also appearing twice, any idea what is going on, I have the most recent version of smart youtube. Here is an example:

    http://www.curetinnitus.org/war/

  62. Lars H. 04.13.09 / 7pm

    I also would like to see the possibilty to get HTML to work in the sidebar, plus adding a title.

  63. Arjun Parsi 04.13.09 / 6am

    loving the plugin, Thank you

  64. Brian 04.09.09 / 10pm

    This is a fantastic plugin! Great job!

    One issue:
    I see in the widget that the user has the ability to insert html in the sidebar. I'm unable to get this to work. I just would like to stylize my title for the sidebar video and I'm unable to do so. If there was just a field to add your title that would work for me. (I noticed that Jim on April 8th also is asking for this to be added.)

    Thanks and this plugin is really the best one in the marketplace thus far!

    Cheers!

  65. sambit 04.09.09 / 9pm

    love it!

    thanks so much!

  66. LuViWeb.it 04.08.09 / 6pm

    Grate plugin Vlad, like your beautifull layout ;)
    I made a smart tutorial in italian and i have subscribed your feed. Thanck for coding and sharing.

    Ciao
    LuViWeb.it

  67. isaac 04.08.09 / 4am

    Thanks i have been looking for a plug in like smart tube.Thanks for the development of one.Now let me get down to tune it for my sites.
    Again thanks

  68. Jim 04.08.09 / 4am

    Vladimir,
    This is a GREAT plug-in! Thank you for creating something so simple, AND customizable, to add videos. Two things I'd like to do with the plugin in the sidebar:

    1. Have it automatically link to the latest video post. (That's why I'm using it for the sidebar so far.)

    2. Be able to customize a title for the sidebar version.

    I don't know if this is something that's customizable at the moment. If not, perhaps something you could consider for a later release.

    Either way, GREAT job!

    Jim
    filmscoreclicktrack.com

  69. Ed 04.07.09 / 8pm

    Vladimir, I love the plug-in! Working great, and I like the ability to set 3 different display sizes for clips. I'm trying to do the same with the playlist, but it doesn't look like that's possible.

    I want to insert a playlist, but have it be 750x465 pixels, to more closely fit my layout. Is that possible?

  70. A. Jordanovic 04.06.09 / 10am

    Just updated newest version.
    Thank you for distributing wonderful tool!
    Pls visit my site, you can see a familiar sight though it's written in Japanse.
    Thank you!

  71. Adrian Hayter 04.06.09 / 6am

    This is by far the best plugin, however the dimension settings do not work. Due to my blog layout, I set videos to a width of 600 and a height of 361, but the changes are not shown on the blog, even though in the settings page they seem to save.

    I end up having to go directly into the plugin file and hardcoding in the values for $width and $height respectively.

    Not sure if I'm the only person having this problem, but it is rather annoying!

    -Adrian

  72. Stefan 04.05.09 / 7am

    The Widget uses only the half of my sidebar width so I could put two videos side by side. How come?

  73. Daniel 04.04.09 / 8pm

    i to have a problem like joel...my content is hidden behind youtube video. i have researched to no avail.

  74. Joel 04.04.09 / 7pm

    I noticed the comment from 'gt' on March 19,2009 about finding a way to prevent the navigation drop down from being hidden by the video. I looked through the plugin code and saw where wmode=transparent was implemented, but my drop down is still being hidden. Any suggestions? I appreciate any input.

    Thank you,
    Joel

  75. Joe 04.04.09 / 3pm

    Thanks for the update to 3.0 Vladimir! Any chance of you being able to get rid of the URL YouTube now displays when you play a video that has a border on it? I like using borders, but have had to remove them from my videos now because of this.

  76. Kaiser The Great 04.03.09 / 5pm

    How about W3C compliance? That would be cool. I know I know, nothing is ever good enough. We are ungrateful. ;)

  77. Vladimir 04.03.09 / 3pm

    Version 3.0 out
    - Added video template, option to set sidebar video size, fixed sidebar widget code, fixed video syntax issue

  78. Ezequiel 04.02.09 / 4pm

    I love this plug-in! Thank you for all the hard work on it.
    It seems it does not play well with the Feedburner plug-in or with feeburner in itself. Videos won't show up when using my feedburner feed.

    Anybody knows a work around to make this work on a feedburner feed?

  79. Joe 03.27.09 / 2am

    It looks like Google/YouTube are up to their antics again. This time, if you use borders, when you press the Play button, under the play bar the URL of the clip makers YouTube page is displayed. Can you put in code to stop that? Thanks again for all of your excellent work with this plugin!

    joe

  80. parasew 03.25.09 / 5pm

    there seem to be various problems with the current version (2.8.1)

    1) even though i use the httpv string to define high-quality, the videos are played in normal quality.

    2) videos are not included in the rss feed. they should be, according to the readme of this plugin.

    some suggestions:

    - please add a "best available" option, so the hd-version in high quality is played, with fallback to sd high to sd low (could be named 'httpb')

    - please ensure that localized video embeds are also working. httpvh://de.youtube.com?blah was not recognized on some embeds on a wordpress site. also make sure, that extra options are still recognized, such as http://de.youtube.com/watch?gl=DE&hl=de&v=YCYZYa2tsFc which is a youtube valid link but is not recognized correctly by smart youtube.

    - please add an option in the options screen on which version (high, normal, hd, best) is to be embedded in the rss feed.

    regards,
    parasew

  81. Paolo Sordi 03.25.09 / 2pm

    This is a very smart plugin. I'm using for a project of mine and I would like to add a title in the widget use: it seems that you can add text before the Youtube link but it doesn't accept HTML tag (they're stripped down). Any plan to include a 'title' field in the widget? Thank you.

  82. asti 03.24.09 / 11am

    It is a really cool plugin. I have only one question or feature wish: Is it possible to play playlist entries randomly?
    Thx a lot for any hints!

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    If you'd like to watch movies on your Iphone, you've come to the right place. In order to do this, you have a few different choices and ways to go about it. This is due to the Iphone needing the movies to be stored as MP4s. If you'd like to find out exactly how it's done, check out this article.

  84. gt 03.19.09 / 11am

    i m using smart youtube.

    but my dropdown menus were hidded by youtube video

    the solution is present incode but not working fine.

    i have make some changes and now working fine

    update smartyoutube.php

    line 489 & 493 has embed tag

    inert one more attribute in these tags

    wmode="transparent"

  85. gt 03.19.09 / 11am

    i m using smart youtube.

    but my dropdown menus were hidded by youtube video

    the solution is present incode but not working fine.

    i have make some changes and now working fine

    on line no 489

    to

  86. Don 03.18.09 / 3am

    @ Omer

    Have not used viper's video quick tags for a couple of months now.

    I have modified the plugin for my personal use, but prefer it as is over viper's plugin. The only bug I know of which rarely happens is if the youtube url has two consecutive hyphens, "--", in it, the video will not load.

    Happy Trails, ...

  87. Jarrod 03.17.09 / 5am

    I am running the plugin on my new blog and it works perfectly but for some strange reason the video gest dragged onto the front page of the blog in Firefox only. In IE is looks fine but in Firefox the summary is included to the right of a picture in each post but dumped below is the video links, anyone tell me what might be happening here ?

  88. Omer 03.16.09 / 6am

    Is this better than vipers quick video tags? Anyone upgrade to this from Vipers notice a difference?

  89. star trek 03.10.09 / 8am

    Have read your article, write pretty good. To assist my very large, a thank you.

  90. Benjamin 03.09.09 / 10am

    Hi, what i done wrong?

    http://www.lolrofl.net/2009/03/schildkrote-fail/#more-749

    i added it with this adress:

    httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDiR7UxI8Ow

    but its only in normal, and i can click on HQ if i start the video. :(

  91. Ray 03.04.09 / 8pm

    Can we have an option to enable/disable autoplay?

    It can be a letter appended to the beginning of the YouTube URL like:

    httpvha://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxx

    This would enable autoplay with high quality enabled as well.

    What do you think?
    -Ray

  92. Don 03.04.09 / 12am

    Using version 2.8.1 on two blogs and am not having any problems viewing videos in IE7 on either one, just checked although I usually use firefox.

  93. Go 4 Apple 03.03.09 / 11pm

    Interesting read, thanks :o)

  94. julia 03.03.09 / 10pm

    Indeed it does not work with IE7 so that would mean useless :) I think it's a bug or something. Any help would be appreciated.

  95. Aouni 03.01.09 / 9pm

    Hello, after updgrade the plugin is causing the known "Operation Aborted" error with IE6 & 7.

    Plz do solve it. I checked my blog, when activation and deactivating the plugin in and it turned out the Smart Youtube is causing the error.

    Thank you.

  96. ingy_dust 02.28.09 / 2pm

    Hi! Display videos in comments isn't working good. When I put the link to a youtube movie httpv:// , after submit the video is appear twice widh an extra > sign between. Why? Thanks!

  97. cineva 02.28.09 / 1pm

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfGrriXEmoM

  98. chicago web design 02.24.09 / 12am

    Just wondering, what advantage does this offer over using the embed code that YouTube provides?

  99. kisyrua 02.22.09 / 7pm

    This way, i don't depend on youtube at all. That greater.

  100. VickyH 02.22.09 / 5pm

    The plugin is great, my question is

    Can the rating (1 starto 5 stars) be displayed on the video? The rating is displayed on the YouTube site, but when I import it into my WP BLog (Smart YouTube is activated) the rating doesn't display.

    Am I doing something wrong? Please send reply to entered email address. THanks.

  101. Philip 02.21.09 / 10pm

    Yes, I checked on my other computer with IE6 and it does work with IE6.

    I also tried putting a video on an almost new Wordpress 2.7.0 blog with no plugins or customisations and it still didn't work there in IE7.

    If you'd like me to be your tester while you play with the plugin code, that's fine by me.

  102. Vladimir 02.21.09 / 10pm

    I don't have IE7, but those videos on your site work in IE6.

  103. Philip 02.21.09 / 9pm

    Sorry, I messed up my first attempt at posting.

    I've just updated Smart Youtube to 2.8 in wordpress 2.7.1 and checked <a href="my post with videos. The videos show up in Firefox (and Opera) but not IE7 in Windows XP. I don't know whether this is a long-standing or new bug because I rarely touch Internet Explorer.

  104. Philip 02.21.09 / 9pm

    I've just updated smart youtube to 2.8 in wordpress 2.7.1 and checked <a href="" title="These videos don't work in ie">my post with videos. The videos show up in Firefox (and Opera) but not IE7 in Windows XP. I don't know whether this is a long-standing or new bug because I rarely touch Internet Explorer.

  105. Ewan 02.20.09 / 5pm

    Appreciate the effort that went into producing a great plugin. Works a treat and has saved me lots of time having to manually delete and enter code.

    Here's a working example on my website.

  106. Onos 02.19.09 / 12pm

    Is it possible to use this plugin with our own hosted videos?

    For example, if i create some of my own Flash videos (.flv) and host them on my web site and display them by using a youtube-clone flash player.

    This way, i don't depend on youtube at all.

    Thank you.

  107. Morten 02.19.09 / 8am

    Hi, i have the plugin on my sidebar, and if i make it smaller it is not centered anymore :(( How do i set it to be centered no matter waht size i choose, it must be set somewhere to either left or right....please help

  108. BPNoel 02.18.09 / 10pm

    I see it does work on pages, as well. Just make sure to enter the correct url:) Great plugin!

  109. BPNoel 02.18.09 / 10pm

    Can it work on a page, as well as a post?

  110. Vladimir 02.18.09 / 11am

    Thanks for the tip Ray. Included in version 2.7.5.

  111. Ray 02.18.09 / 4am

    Just trying out your plugin and I like it so far!

    One suggestion:

    We are using a customized "wp-content" directory, so it might be best to use WP_PLUGIN_URL for $wp_yte_plugin_url, instead of get_bloginfo('wpurl')/PLUGINDIR.

  112. SNYpod 02.18.09 / 1am

    I love the plugin, but there is one (simple) thing keeping me from using it full time.

    There should be at least one more width/height option so that HD and high quality videos can have separate sizes.

    While that would basically do the trick, I should point out that to cover all bases you'd actually need five size options...

    4:3
    httpv:// - standard quality - size 1
    httpvh:// - high quality - size 2

    16:9
    httpvv:// - standard quality - size 3
    httpvhh:// - high quality - size 4
    httpvhd:// - high def - size 5

  113. Bear 02.14.09 / 3am

    I haven't had time to go through enough of the code to see where to change it yet, but the picture in the RSS feed that replaces the embedded video links to the HQ video even when it's set to HD. I think it's just an overlooked if-statement to make it 'fmt=22'.

  114. brent 02.12.09 / 6am

    great plugin vlad!

    keep up the good work!
    also really like your wordpress 2.7 themes: blue grace and amazing grace

  115. Scottie 02.12.09 / 2am

    OK, solved my problem: Just put the httpv:... URL into a post rather than by going through the "add media" process. No link line.

    Now if only I can find that Options page!

  116. Scottie 02.11.09 / 10pm

    I can put a YouTube video in a post, but a red line of code is visible beneath it. How to eliminate that?

    My sidebar widget isn't cooperating at all. Where, exactly, can this fabled "Options" page be found? I sweat I don't have it.

  117. Techalites 02.10.09 / 6pm

    Great plugin. Quite easy to handle youtube videos and configure the youtube player. Using for my technology blog.

    Would like to know if is there any way to add adsense for video unit functionality along with this.

  118. Vladimir 02.07.09 / 6pm

    Version 2.7.4 adds an option to remove info & ratings.

  119. Joe 02.06.09 / 3am

    Your plugin is the best. I'm hoping you can fix the problem with those ugly white titles and ratings now showing up on embedded YouTube videos. An option on your plugin to get rid of it would be great.

    For those hand coding, you can remove it by adding "&showinfo=0" to the embed code.

    Vladimir, having it as an option to select in the plugin would be great. And I'm sending you a paypal donation (small, but it's something) to thank you for your time and great work. Thanks Again! - Joe

  120. Don 02.06.09 / 2am

    Like the plugin, have been using it for quite a while.

    Just wanted to let you know of something I noticed recently.

    A youtube link with one hyphen like this works fine,
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5W9H-JtE7E

    A youtube link with two hyphens like this works fine I think,
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5-9H-JtE7E

    But a youtube link with two concurrent hyphens like this won't work,
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5W9--JtE7E

    Also hope you can strip this new rating crap that youtube instituted yesterday.

    Thanks!

  121. Erlend 02.03.09 / 10pm

    Thanks for making a great plugin. I find it a lot better than "Viper's Video Quicktags", and thats where my problem starts.

    In VVQ the tags look like [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI-nkmwHNrc&feature=related[/youtube]. Is it possible to make SY support this tags (by switching a boolean in the PHP-file?) so I faster can force my users to use the httpv-kind?

  122. Navjot Singh 02.03.09 / 6am

    Two suggestions:

    One is regarding this plugin: Instead of linking back to video link in youtube in feed, can you pls add option of linking back to the post so that traffic does not get diverted from feeds out of the blog?

    Second suggestion is regarding your blog: I can only see main comments on any of your post and rest of your comments and pages are hidden unless I submit a comment. Pls fix this bug too.

  123. Oxize 01.31.09 / 10pm

    Vladimir is it possible to create a button on the add new post page when you are in visual mode? So when my users click the button they only have to put in the Youtube link and all code get posted into the post. My users are totally noob at html. They mostly work in the visual mode.

    Let me know if its possible.

    p.s: With visual buttons i mean the buttons like align,spellchecker,Insert / edit embedded media, etc.

  124. Oxize 01.31.09 / 10pm

    Vladimir is it possible to create a button on the add new post page when you are in visual mode? So when my users click the button they only have to put in the Youtube link and all code get posted into the post. My users are totally noob at html. They mostly work in the visual mode.

    Let me know if its possible

  125. Itzme 01.31.09 / 2am

    This plugin is really great. Is there any possibility of using it not only in posts/pages/sidebar widget? For example in a wp template to show random videos from a playlist?

  126. Jamie 01.30.09 / 11pm

    Hello,

    Great plugin! How can I turn off "related videos" in embedded players

    http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=75301

    Is there a way to set '&rel=0'

    Thanks!

  127. Vladimir 01.30.09 / 12pm

    That sounds like a good idea, stay tuned.

  128. Josh~ 01.30.09 / 10am

    Hey :) Could you add support for disabling annotations? That would be great :) (http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=92712)

  129. navyvet48 01.29.09 / 9pm

    Maybe I am just technically challenged but I can't figure out how to use Smart youtube. I have activated the plug-in. Can anyone help?

  130. Caldo 01.28.09 / 10pm

    The videos seem to upload and play perfectly when I place the plugin as a widget in the sidebar, but when I try to embed the video in the post I get a comment within the player that states the following:

    The video you have requested is not available.

    If you have recently uploaded this video, you may need to wait a few minutes for the video to process.

    Any thoughts on why this happens when placing it in the post?

    Caldo

  131. Otis Collier 01.28.09 / 8pm

    I love your plugin. I would like to make a suggestion on a upgrade that I have not seen in any plugin for YouTube video. I would like to be able to do a word wrap around my video.

    For example, left or right align the video and then have my text wrap around the video.

    Another beautiful feature would be to have Google Adsense show directly below my video.

    Just two thoughts. Otherwise, great plugin!

  132. glb 01.24.09 / 8pm

    I had trouble with this plugin too when I first tried it. It would work perfectly in Firefox but IE wouldn't load the page. I discovered that the culprit, in my case, was Lightbox. I deactivated Lightbox and have not had any problems since then.

  133. James B Esq 01.22.09 / 12pm

    Hey there looks like a great plugin, I just tested it and it works perfectly in firefox, being on a mac I used a plugin to test render it in ie 7 and it doesn't show up, can anyone tell me from a PC point of view does this work in ie 6/7 and above?
    Thanks and great work!

  134. jackie sheeler 01.20.09 / 1pm

    smart youtube is the plugin that saves me the most time -- and formats the video quite nicely. it is a godsend, saving me from all that youtube crappy embed code.

    THANK YOU! i am going to visit your donation page right now.

  135. Daniel Cameron 01.18.09 / 2pm

    For my iNove theme the side bar option would be great and also to have 'x' amount down the side bar. But the standard iNove theme is not wide enough. I tried the embed code from youtube but that dont work. Seems can only put the httpv// links in so i won't be able to use it. Need a small youtube side bar thing that when you click it takes you to the big blog post, don't necessarily need to be able to play small utubes in the side bar. It will just be luring and look nice!

    Also for feedback it would be really great if it could put a small vid in the sidebar of the later blog vid posts. I'm going to be doing hundreds of them.

    As usual if you want to experiment with my site go right ahead. I will give you an admin login.

  136. video 01.18.09 / 1pm

    it looks great, i will give it a try on videoimmagini.com !
    if it will work as you say on rssfeeds it would be really smashing.

  137. elliott 01.18.09 / 9am

    Will this work with the YouTube Custom Player? We have several videos grouped together in playlist and then set in YouTube Custom Player becuase we need to be able to play all. You can see a sample on a page at the old website at http://www.tomjacksonproductions.com/products/allroads.php for a sample. The link looks like this http://www.youtube.com/cp/vjVQa1PpcFNcs_Sg7RQux604L_Zxu_TR81kf7T4NJfI=

    I tried using this but can't get it to work. Any suggestions?

  138. Ross 01.16.09 / 12am

    @Fritz
    I thought about that, but if I make the hi-res version bigger, it will mess up my other vids that look good at that size.
    I think we need a widescreen parameter in addition to the HD parameter.

    Thanks

  139. Fritz 01.15.09 / 8pm

    sorry, I meant @Ross

  140. Fritz 01.15.09 / 8pm

    @Vladimir
    in your wordpress back-end under settings and smartyoutube you can set the size of the video displayed . . .
    Did you try/mean that?

  141. Fritz 01.15.09 / 11am

    Hey there!
    First of all, thnaks for that great plugin, I use it a lot.
    One feature I´m missing though and this could also be useful to all this problems with IE6 and so on.
    As I found out users need to have Adobe Flash Player and Java installed. If not either videos cannot be played or videos don´t show up at all.
    A fix to that problem would be to show users who don´t meet the above requirements that they need to install a current version of Adobe Flash Player and/or get Java.
    Does anybody know how to do that?

    Best, Fritz

  142. Ross 01.15.09 / 3am

    Hi Vladimir,

    How do I properly embed this video with high-quality?:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn9-y-wOFiA

    If I do httpvh, and play in window, it looks too small.
    If I do httpvhd, and play in window, it says the video is no longer available.

    Thanks,
    Ross

  143. James 01.13.09 / 9am

    Thanks for all!!!

  144. glbuzz 01.12.09 / 2am

    BTW, the demo on this page works in IE7 but my vid did not.

  145. glbuzz 01.12.09 / 2am

    When I used this, it worked great in Firefox but I could not load the page in IE 7. As soon as I took the post with the vid off, IE 7 loads the page again. Has anyone else run into this problem and if so, how can it be fixed. I LOVED how it worked when viewing from Firefox.

  146. adam 01.08.09 / 3pm

    Hi!
    I really like that this plugin is very easy to use. Still, the reason I tried to use it was to get a valid embed, unfortunately this is not the case. Are there any settings i need to alter to get a valid xhtml code or is it just not... OK now i see! It actually works.
    Thank you very much for this plugin. Love it!!!

  147. steve 01.07.09 / 1am

    Thanks for the input Vladimir. Maybe its my ie6.

  148. Vladimir 01.06.09 / 5pm

    Works fine in IE6 for me.

  149. steve 01.06.09 / 5pm

    Hello...I'm using your youtube plugin...one problem....it does not work with ie6. It works fine with firefox, but I still have many users who use ie6 (mostly asian countries).

    I notice that your demo on this page does not display in ie6 either. If you have ie6, you can check it out. When using ie6, it displays on your page, just like it does on my page....a big square with a small red x in it. Is there a fix or a way to get the video to dislay when using ie6

    Thanks

  150. Asif 01.04.09 / 8pm

    Thnx for creating this wonderful plugin. Everything works fine but I see extra link right below my videos.
    Like this :
    onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview ('/outbound/www.youtube.com');">Metal Gear Solid Mobile

    When I click on it it takes me to "http://mysite/smarttube...span class"

    Pls tell me why am I getting this and how can I remove it?

  151. 微笑の迪妮莎 01.02.09 / 11pm

    THX U !
    I love it !

  152. nafasku.com 01.01.09 / 3am

    oh yeah! its a great plugin ! its works!!! thanks a lot

  153. Joe 12.30.08 / 7am

    A good addition to the plugin (which I love) would be to add the option to remove annotations from videos.

  154. AlexT 12.27.08 / 3pm

    Also getting the Call to undefined function register_sidebar_widget() fatal error in WP 2.7!

  155. Gobala Krishnan 12.27.08 / 5am

    I dont think this works quite right in WP 2.7 yet. I get duplicate of the same videos with broken codes and links.

  156. Vladimir 12.25.08 / 7pm

    You are most welcome :)

  157. Tracy Phaup 12.25.08 / 7pm

    I had already subscribed to your blog but as soon as I saw that you were featuring one of Where In the Hell is Matt?'s videos I knew you had won a fan for life! (smile)

    Thanks for all the great info -
    Tracy Phaup

  158. Aaron 12.24.08 / 11am

    Funny, but the clip I tried to upload works fine in Youtube, but won't when I tried to use in on the blog. When I put in a different clip, that one loaded right up.

  159. Aaron 12.24.08 / 11am

    I've tried to load a video into my blog using this. I've been at it for 3 hours. No matter what I do, it just shows it as a link in the message. Doesn't matter if I use IE or Firefox.

  160. parimal 12.23.08 / 12am

    How the heck can I add youtube video into my post.
    I have installed the plugins and now what. How do I display the video on my post.
    Do I have to post the youtube video manually or it will do do automatically using rss feed.
    If rss feed, how do I go about setting it.

    Thanks

  161. HotForWords 12.21.08 / 4pm

    Vladimir!

    Great job on keeping up with YouTube's changes!!

    I got really excited and started embedding my videos in HD, but now I find that a LOT of my users have difficulty viewing HD on their computers... so I am going to go back to embedding at just high quality, not high def.

    I was wondering.. do you think it would be possible to create some kind of javascript that would allow a viewer to click an HD link below the video and start watching in HD if they had the ability? Similar to what YouTube does?

    That would be so awesome! I just don't know Javascript well enough to hack together something like that.

    What do you think? Is it doable?

    Thanks again!

    Marina

  162. Sopi 12.21.08 / 11am

    thanks for the great plugin
    everything works great on my site except when i tried the HD version it wont start the clip. i have to change back to High Quality version in order for it to play, any idea?

    thanks!

  163. Aouni 12.16.08 / 1am

    I am getting the same error which the guys below has stated. I am using wp 2.7, this only happened after I upgraded to the latest version of the plugin yesterday.

  164. Storm 12.15.08 / 10pm

    I get the same error message as below. Plugin seems to be working fine, however.

  165. Tim 12.15.08 / 11am

    v2.7 gives fatal error on line 542 when trying to activate any plugin.

    It reads: "Fatal error: Call to undefined function register_sidebar_widget() in /wp-content/plugins/smart-youtube/smartyoutube.php on line 542"

  166. fog 12.15.08 / 10am

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function register_sidebar_widget() in /wp-content/plugins/smart-youtube/smartyoutube.php on line 542

    I have this error every time I activate a plugin. Also is there a way to resize videos in sidebar?

    Thanx.

  167. Navjot Singh 12.15.08 / 7am

    Call to undefined function register_sidebar_widget() in /home/navjot/public_html/downloadvideos/wp-content/plugins/smart-youtube/smartyoutube.php on line 542

    This error comes in 2.7 version.

  168. JonnieCrunch 12.15.08 / 1am

    This plugin is awesome! I only wish there were a way to turn-off the annotations, as most of them become superfluous when on another website other than youtube...

  169. Vladimir 12.14.08 / 9pm

    SmartYoutube version 2.7 is out today with support for sidebar widget videos.

  170. Jeff 12.14.08 / 8pm

    Do you know a way to make this work in the sidebar widgets? It doesn't work in the text widget or the php exec widget.
    thanks

  171. coffee 12.14.08 / 9am

    Easily embeds YouTube videos to BLOG

  172. Thong Tran 12.14.08 / 3am

    Cool plugsin I love it. Just wondering if the same concept can be done for other file format, for example I have url for a wma file format, what do I need to change so that the wma url httm:// something like that to pull in the window media player instead of youtube? Thanks, sorry this might be off topic, please direct me to where I can get help.

  173. Eduardo 12.09.08 / 2am

    Hello thanks for the great product,

    Just wondering though is there away to display youtube thumbnails using this system?

  174. ingy 12.06.08 / 9pm

    Hi!

    I have your Smart YouTube 2.6 version but allways parameter showsearch=0 even if I check to Show Search in settings panel. Can you help me with this? Thanks!

  175. Alper Iseri 12.05.08 / 3pm

    Thank you very much for the plugin. I use it for several months now and it works perfectly!! Thanks again for you work :-)

    Many greetings from Germany
    Alper

  176. Vladimir 12.05.08 / 12am

    Roy thanks for the tip. Version 2.6 with search box removal added.

  177. Roy 12.04.08 / 9pm

    With the new YouTube "search bar" in the embedded videos, is there a way to remove that via this plug in itself?

    http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/player_parameters.html#showsearch

    Maybe a plugin update is in order? Thanks!

  178. Navjot Singh 12.04.08 / 12pm

    Does it support the Widescreen embed feature of Youtube?

  179. Mark 11.28.08 / 5pm

    Hi,

    I really like this little plug-in. I'm using it with 2.7 Beta 3 but I can't find the options page you show in the screenshots above so I can change the sizes and stuff.

    Can anyone help?

    Cheers, Mark.

  180. cyberfunk 11.27.08 / 10pm

    **please disregard**

    It turns out that the link was automatically generated while I was editing the date post.

    Thanks for a great plugin! :)

  181. cyberfunk 11.27.08 / 10pm

    Hey Vladimir, I really dig your plugin but I noticed earlier today that it randomly stopped working. It simply won't read the code, do you know what it could be? The code was used on: http://liliumbosnacium.com/2008/11/24/adi-lukovac-creative-music-pioneer-of-the-bosnian-electronica-scene/

    hvala unaprijed,
    lijep pozdrav!

  182. Sirena 11.24.08 / 2am

    Just popping in to say that I love Smart Youtube. My site couldn't exist without it! I've been using it for some time now and it's still simple, straightforward and reliable.

    Actually I'd been using it for some time before I realised that it was by Vladimir - who also designed the theme I use, Amazing Grace.

  183. David Millar 11.23.08 / 12am

    Well i tried you plugin in my Godaddy word press account http://www.bobspicklepopsblog.com and i am getting HTML code showing up in my blog surrounding the video and i cannot get the video to size properly even though i changed the size values.

  184. kerre 11.21.08 / 8pm

    Love this plugin. At first it did not show up in my Plugins page. I realized when I unzipped it, it made 2 folders. I just uploaded it again but opened the 1st folder and then uploaded. That way you do not have 2 folders with same name. Then I saw it on my Plugins page.

  185. Vladimir 11.21.08 / 5pm

    Added support for HD (high definition, 720p) videos! Download version 2.5 today.

  186. Anna 11.21.08 / 9am

    Looking forward to using this plugin. So far I have not been able to get it to work. I entered the URL into the editor, with the 'v" included and the URL just shows up in my post, not the video. What am I doing wrong?

  187. fred.cat 11.18.08 / 4am

    Funciona. Gràcies.

  188. James 11.17.08 / 3pm

    Hi Vladimir,

    I am getting the following error when I Enable xHTML Validation, I am running Firefox

    Not Found
    The requested URL /<span class= was not found on this server.

    Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

  189. MadHyde 11.17.08 / 12pm

    Just now, "fmt=22" option has come. Cool stuff!:)

    Watch YouTube Videos in 720p by Adding "&fmt=22" to the Link

  190. Adria Richards, Butyoureagirl.com 11.14.08 / 7am

    Vladimir,

    This plugin is much better than entering in the YouTube path manually. I tried another YouTube plugin but went back to hand coding because it's easier to remember.

    I will head over to Wordpress and give a thumbs up for this Smart YouTube plugin. Now to recode all my previous blog posts :)

  191. alexander 11.11.08 / 11am

    Good plagin long been looking for him very much

  192. Caleb 11.08.08 / 8pm

    @Vladimir - Hi, the smart youtube plugin is not showing up in my plugin page to activate it on my wordpress blog. What do I need to do?

    Thanks,
    Caleb

  193. Mike 11.07.08 / 3pm

    Originally Posted By MikeVladimir, what a great plugin!!! btw, what new in the latest update dated today 7/nov? I can't find any info about it.

    greetings!

    mike

    reply was in the comments... thanks Vladimir! Sorry I can't delete my post :(

  194. Mike 11.07.08 / 3pm

    Vladimir, what a great plugin!!! btw, what new in the latest update dated today 7/nov? I can't find any info about it.

    greetings!

    mike

  195. Vladimir 11.07.08 / 10am

    Released a small update today to address the rss feed issue as well the issue Marina mentioned.

  196. Caleb 11.06.08 / 10pm

    @Jon - have you figured it out yet? I too have the same problem of it not showing up in my activate plugin page.

  197. Vinnie Vegas 11.06.08 / 9pm

    Can more than one video be featured in the same pane? For example, have one box for the video and have several videos accessible from that one interface?

  198. Bear 11.04.08 / 2am

    First of all, this is a great plugin, especially when I use my RSS to import into other apps, like Facebook.

    I needed to add a few things in order to get high quality videos to work properly. First the default height of the video is 360px, but the embedded player has a height of 385px, which I just changed in the settings in WP.

    The other bigger issue was the link in the RSS feed pointing to the wrong URL. the property at the end of the URL needed to be "&fmt=18" instead it was going to "&ap=%2526fmt%3D18". That requires a separate variable in the PHP code for the URL and the embedded code. I would've included my changes below, but your spam filter won't let my comment through even with code

  199. Vijay 11.03.08 / 7pm

    Thanks Vladimr for the update. This is really a much needed feature.

    Thanks again.

    Cheers,
    Vijay
    http://www.vijayforvictory.com

  200. Vladimir 11.02.08 / 7pm

    Released version 2.4 with support for video deep linking. More information in this post: http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/embedding-youtube-video-deep-linking-with-smart-youtube-plugin

  201. Vladimir 10.28.08 / 12am

    @HotForWords - Marina please send me the code you change for HQ thumbs. When did you learn to code ? ;)

  202. HotForWords 10.20.08 / 6am

    YouTube now has HIGH QUALITY thumbnails (still images)... but I had to change the code of your plugin to show them. Oh.. and YouTube now shows ADS on embedded videos (which is good for producers of content, obviously)

    Anyway... Vladimir, go to my website and check out my latest videos.. you see the HQ Thumbs and the ads. It's pretty cool.

    I removed: rel=0 and the color stuff from the plugin to make them work.. the second I put rel=0 in and it goes back to low quality thumbs and no ads.

    Marina
    http://www.hotforwords.com

  203. dams92210 10.18.08 / 10am
  204. Jason Hansen 10.17.08 / 3pm

    I just did what HotForWords did & my iPod Touch is now showing the YouTube previews. Thanks HotForWords!

  205. Jason Hansen 10.17.08 / 6am

    YouTube videos are showing up as blue lego blocks on my iPod Touch again. Not sure what update caused this. Can you help Vladimir? Thanks.

  206. John 10.14.08 / 4am

    thanks for the plugin, works great with youtube videos. Only issue that I notice is that when I select a lightbox picture on the same page as the video box it open behind the box.
    not an issues, just for you to note.

  207. Siete Coyote 10.11.08 / 10pm

    Thanks for this excelent and very easy-to-use plugin.
    We made a spanish lenguage translation of the "readme" file, you can find it here:
    http://blog.sietecoyote.com/2008/10/11/smart-youtube-plugin-para-wordpress/

    maybe soon, we can continue with the translation of the plugin's admin panel.

    please check it and let us know your suggestions.

  208. Brad 10.07.08 / 11pm

    I'm having the same issue as Jon. I've uploaded the plugin but it doesn't show up on the Plugin management page to activate it. It works fine on another site that I use it on.

  209. HotForWords 09.30.08 / 4pm

    Actually.. never mind... I turned ON XHTML validation and then turned it back off... and now it appears to work.. maybe it had to reset itself?

    I think it works now.

  210. HotForWords 09.30.08 / 4pm

    Vladimir,
    My iPhone preview does not work anymore.. it worked on earlier versions but no longer works. I turned off the Xhtml validation.. but still no luck.

    Can you see what is wrong? http://www.hotforwords.com

    Thanks!
    Marina

  211. Jon 09.25.08 / 8pm

    I just did a fresh install of Wordpress and this is the second plugin I was going to add but it doesn't show up in the Plugin management area to active.

    Any idea why it wouldn't show up?

    Thanks
    Jon

  212. k 09.22.08 / 8pm

    for some videos it works alright but for some I have issues.
    For example... Lenka - The Show :
    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nTSU-mFWGs
    The preview image is working on my blog but when you click on play, it says video is not available (something you get when the video does not exist usually).
    Am I doing something wrong?

  213. Sadie 09.20.08 / 8pm

    Gosh Vladimir...I just can't 'thank you enough'...this was just so easy to install. One less headache, and it's working great...I have a bunch of video's I have to move over from my old blogging platform, and I am so happy with the simplicity of this tool...I am just beaming...8o)

  214. Ariel - We Are All One 09.16.08 / 3am

    Great plugin. Thank you very much!!

  215. fog 09.15.08 / 3pm

    @Oriol You can find the solution here.

  216. Baron 09.14.08 / 7pm

    hi. Thanks for plugin

    perfect.

    Best Regards

  217. Bandit 09.14.08 / 3pm

    Plugin was working great but all of a sudden this morning it no longer works. Since I don't know when it broke I don't have any idea what broke it.

  218. 10-nice 09.10.08 / 10am

    Great plugin !!

    But why does it not works with the excerpt of a post ? Because the pictures are display in the excerpt.

    It will be great if it does, and if we also can choose to display in excerpt or not !!

    Cheers.

  219. Bogdan Radu 09.07.08 / 2pm

    Great plugin, thank you man!

  220. Steven 09.04.08 / 11pm

    Plugin works BUT when click on it I go to youtube.com instead of playing the video in line with my post/page. I use latest version 2.2.1 and tried FF, IE and Chrome, all the same.

    When clicked you see the video start playing but before start I jump to Youtube.com.

    Only when I use autoplay the video plays in line?! But this won't works for multiple vids in one post/page.

    Please, can anyone help me with this? Thanks a lot!

  221. Oriol 09.03.08 / 10pm

    Dear Friend,
    First to congratulate him on this great utility that I am using with WordPress and that is a real luxury to make videos.
    Secondly, I wanted to discuss the problem that I have met and that only happens to me the "Internet Explorer", in contrast with the other not.
    Using WordPress with a theme called "Mandigo" and what happens is that in this particular browser width of the sale of the video is reduced to 25% of what it should be, while any other browser does not occur.
    It said it because I've been looking at the forums and I have not found anything like this and I wonder if any inconsistency, and so incidentally, help improve your product.

    Sincerely, Oriol.

  222. valkia d silv . 09.02.08 / 6pm

    wo falow ak est akem espciel est in all ,bok ,baibai.....

  223. avtorentacar 09.02.08 / 2pm

    Good plugin.
    Thank you.

  224. Theo 08.29.08 / 1pm

    Jason, can you pls send me the url of your site so as to chack it with my iphone?

  225. Jason Hansen 08.29.08 / 12pm

    I upgraded to 2.2.1 and the YouTube videos work fine on my regular site and my iPhone/iPod Touch site.

  226. Theo 08.29.08 / 11am

    still nothing. I used the 2.2.1 version. Have you tried yourself and it's ok, or not? Do i have to make any adjustments?

  227. Vladimir 08.29.08 / 10am

    Let's try with 2.2.1 I have added two different codes for normal sites and iPhone

  228. Theo 08.29.08 / 10am

    I upgraded the plugin, but i cannot see any changes to my iphone. I cannot see the video from the youtube...

  229. Vladimir 08.29.08 / 9am

    I fixed the validation problem in today's version. Can someone confirm if the video show on Iphone now?

  230. Mitch 08.29.08 / 1am

    Unfortunately my website fails to validate the HTML. I am using the most up-to-date version, does anyone know why it will not validate?

    http://www.bananasontoast.org/

  231. bryan ashbaugh 08.22.08 / 7pm

    I must be the only one who can't get your plug in to work. The plug in is says it is activated in the plugins admin.

    http://www.liveleanblog.com/2008/08/22/animal-pak-zero-side-effects-complete-multivitamin-review/

    You can see I added the v. Any help would be appreciated.

  232. Pete 08.21.08 / 6am

    Can you have this plugin display youtube videos by keyword or tags?
    Kinda like this plugin (which doesn't seem to work):

    http://blog.ubrio.us/php/youtube-wordpress-plugin-with-technorati-tags/

  233. Vladimir 08.18.08 / 6pm

    Please discuss all Smart Youtube related issues in plugin forum.

  234. Vladimir 08.18.08 / 6pm

    Works well when I take a look at your site both in FF and IE ;)

  235. Harvard 08.18.08 / 3pm

    Vladimir, I use several of your plugins on my site. Great job! Thanks!

    One question. I upgraded Smartyoutube to 2.1.4 today and now when I am on a single post page the sidebar is way down on the right side instead beside the post where it was before. Do you know what could have caused that and/or how I can fix that.

    Thanks!

    -Harv

  236. fog 08.18.08 / 8am

    I like this plugin very much. Thanx

  237. HotForWords 08.17.08 / 11pm

    Works great! Thanks for that!

    Jejune is such a pretty sounding word.. but what it means is not so pretty! Comes from the Latin Jejunus which means "fasting" and as such.. the word means barren, poor, empty.. as well as dull, uninteresting, lacking substance.
    But it also means naïve, but that's the result of a false etymology.. where people thought that the origin of the word was a similar sounding Latin word juvenis, where juvenile comes from.. meaning young.

    I'll put it in my list of words to do.. maybe I'll make a video about it.

    :-)

    Marina

  238. Vladimir 08.17.08 / 10pm

    Thanks to your persistence I've been able to find the problem and the updated version 2.1.4 is available now.

    Btw I've always wanted to learn more about english word 'jejune', have you featured it? It is one of the most beautiful words to me too.

  239. HotForWords 08.17.08 / 7pm

    Wow.. your website won't let me post my comment that I wrote before. (maybe I can't post links?)

    With wordtube I am able to make the width and height 500x400.. an example can be found on my website... I guess I can't post links... arggghhh!!!!!

    Go to my website and then go here: /2008/07/25/mums-the-word/

    But when I make your settings 500x400 it gets stuck at 349 height but 500 width works: /2008/08/16/nickname/

    So your plugin used to allow me to make my videos taller than 349 (your options page above even shows t a 360 height) yet the plugin won't output a height larger than 349 for me all of a sudden. I even looked at the numbers in the database and it shows that they larger number is going into the database.. but the plugin is just refusing to output the larger height for some reason.

  240. Vladimir 08.17.08 / 9am

    Marina, new Wordpress or smart youtube itself does not have anything to do with the height of the video - the height value is only printed out and sent to Youtube. So it can only be a limit from Youtube side which you can verify by embedding a video directly.

  241. HotForWords 08.17.08 / 4am

    Weird.. all of a sudden I cannot make the height any larger than 439 for HQ videos. I don't know what happened.

    do you have any suggestions? I upgraded to 2.6.1 Wordpress.. rebooted my server.. then all my videos had weird dimensions.. so I tried to change the HQ settings but they are stuck at 439.

    Can I delete a table in mysql or something?

    Thanks!
    Marina

  242. Stephen 08.11.08 / 1am

    Just installed the new version and now it's not XHTML valid :(
    http://www.photolulu.com/shutterbug/

  243. Johnny 08.03.08 / 1pm

    Great plugin, I think it also solves a problem with user roles - ie. from what I can gather you need to be an editor or above to embed a video. Of course, I'm a bit of noob, but either way it now works. Thanks for the plugin again.

  244. Liam Brooks 08.02.08 / 7pm

    Works great, thanks :D

  245. theo0221 08.01.08 / 11am

    Videos does not shown to iphone. I have only placed smarttube to this post http://menz.gr/site/?p=527 but i cannot see any difference. I still cannot see youtube videos. Pls help

  246. baron 07.31.08 / 1am

    hi. Thanks for plugin

    perfect.

    Regards

  247. HotForWords 07.30.08 / 10pm

    Oh.. didn't realize there was an update.. it didn't show in the plugin update notification thing in my backend.

    Thanks for the compliments.. you can always email me if you want to try things out.. I upload a video every day to YouTube and they get seen about a half a million to a million times a day.. so I am a HEAVY user of embedding YouTube vids. :-)

    Marina

  248. Vladimir 07.30.08 / 9pm

    hotforwords: Thanks for the feedback! I am constantly working on improving the plugin and the object tag error has actually been addressed in the latest update today (v2.1.2). Nice site btw ;)

  249. HotForWords 07.30.08 / 9pm

    LOVE your plugin.. I have 230 videos on my website so I will be switching all my videos over to your plugin! I DID notice a coding error.. you forgot to put the close bracket on the first object tag.. the result is that the videos play for most people but not everyone.

    I fixed it on my website... it's line 416 in your smartyoutube.php file.. I noticed that your old commented out code is also missing the close bracket so it's a problem you have had for a while I presume.

    Thanks for making this!

    Marina

  250. Vladimir 07.30.08 / 9pm

    peter: thanks!
    melain: yes please do send the code to my email (found on the contact page)

  251. atlanta wedding photographer 07.30.08 / 9pm

    vlad....just downloaded the plugin again since it is compatible with 2.6. Very easy to use and the modification are awesome. Thanks again and keep up with the great and most awesome work

  252. Melain Michel 07.30.08 / 4pm

    Hello Vladimir
    great plugin again - thanks.

    I have (as always with me) modified the html code in the plugin to make it fully xhtml1.1 compliant.
    You can see it running on my page http://www.melain.be/wordpress and check for validity with the links in the footer.

    xhtml1.1 - ok
    html4.01 - ok
    section 508 - ok

    I can send you the modified code if you are interested in it because I don't know if it's possible to put it in this comment without breaking something.

    Regards,
    Michel.

  253. Vijay 07.30.08 / 12pm

    Hi Vladimir,

    My sincere thanks for your efforts.

    I just installed 2.1.1. And still I am getting the related videos at the end of play.

    You can check here.
    http://www.vijayforvictory.com/2008/07/brilliant-performance/

    I double checked on the settings page and confirmed on "Don't Include Related Videos" check.

    Could you please advice me to fix this?

    Cheers,
    Vijay

  254. Vladimir 07.30.08 / 7am

    Relevant video fixed in v2.1.1

  255. Vijay 07.29.08 / 11pm

    Vladimir, thanks for the full screen feature. It is amazing.

    I have two observations -

    1. I could not set "Include Releated Videos". Even if I select it is being saved as "Don't include Releated videos". I don't know whether is it a wordpress issue or not.

    2. Even if I set "Don't Include Related Videos", all related videos are being shown.

    Out of these two, I would appreciate if you fix atleast the second one.

    I am giving a sample video in my blog for your reference.

    http://www.vijayforvictory.com/2008/07/brilliant-performance/

    Thanks for your effort.

    Cheers,
    Vijay

  256. Jason Hansen 07.29.08 / 8pm

    Installed 2.1 and love the iPhone/iPod Touch compatibility! Thank you!

  257. Vladimir 07.29.08 / 7pm

    Version 2.1 out today. Changes:
    - Compatible with iPhone
    - Allows full screen display

  258. Craig 07.27.08 / 8pm

    I can confirm it's working fine with WPMU 2.6RC1. Thanks again sir!

  259. Jason Hansen 07.27.08 / 8pm

    Is there a way to have the plugin display YouTube videos to display the “box” instead of the link via iPod Touch or iPhone. If you aren’t sure what I am talking about & have time (I would highly appreciate it), please email me and I’ll send you two screenshots I took using my iPod Touch. One is using your plugin and the other is using the embed code directly from YouTube. Thank you in advance for any help you can give me.

  260. Vijay 07.27.08 / 4pm

    Hi,

    Just now I installed 2.0.1. Is there any way to hide the related videos?

    That would be really helpful.

    Vijay

  261. Vijay 07.27.08 / 2pm

    Hi Vladimir,

    First of all, a big thanks for your Smart Youtube plugin. It is very simple and powerful.

    I have a small suggestion,

    It would be better if this plugin supports the allow maximizing option. Most of the users want to see the video in full screen without going to youtube site.

    If this feature is configurable in the settings page, that would be really great.

  262. Stephen 07.26.08 / 2pm

    One one the best YouTube plugin. It's so easy to use. Mahalo.

  263. Atlanta wedding photographer 07.25.08 / 6pm

    I have the same question about wordpress 2.6. The plugin doesn't show up in my plugin list. Are there going to be anymore updates with it. This plugin has worked absolute wonders for my blog. Thankyou for your work.

  264. Richard 07.23.08 / 12pm

    This is exactly what i was looking for many thanks!

  265. Jared Evans 07.23.08 / 3am

    Seems to be compatible with WP 2.6... disregard my previous comment.

  266. Jared Evans 07.23.08 / 3am

    Any chance it'll be updated for WP 2.6 that just came out?

  267. Vladimir 07.22.08 / 11pm

    i don't see why it wouldn't work with MU, but then again I haven't tried it.

  268. Craig 07.22.08 / 9pm

    Is there any reason this plugin wouldn't work as a MU plugin? I'd like to offer it to all blogs, but not allow users to edit the settings.

    Thanks in advance.

  269. Vladimir 07.20.08 / 11pm

    High quality video (httpvh) issue sorted out in v2.0.1

  270. Rodrigo 07.20.08 / 4pm

    I post a video and when i try to view, shows me a message "this video is no longer available" and the video still is there in youtube. Maybe i have a problem with my hosting or maybe is the plugin?

  271. MadHyde 07.19.08 / 6am

    I wrote two "httpvh" link in one post.
    This plugin did not affected.
    httpv is OK.

  272. Darrell 07.17.08 / 12pm

    Hey Vlad, is there any setting or tweek for adjusting the buffer size to help people out with slow connections?

    Thanks - Darrell

    FYI - Works great in Opera 9.51

  273. Marc 07.15.08 / 11pm

    Same thing happens to me, it just shows the link

  274. Chris Cantrell 07.14.08 / 9pm

    Hmmm....updated a video link that has HQ and all it does is post the link text (non linked) in the post. Am I missing something?

  275. Chris Cantrell 07.14.08 / 8pm

    Uhhh..wow. Now that's service. :D

  276. Vladimir 07.14.08 / 8pm

    I guess you all are going to looove version 2.0 then ;)

  277. Chris Cantrell 07.14.08 / 5pm

    Fantastic plugin, Vladimir. I'd like to add to the chorus of voices about adding support for high quality vids in the next release please.

  278. Dopefish 07.14.08 / 4pm

    This plugin is simply great, I had a look at a few, and none offered the configuration options this one does. Nice work. Could you maybe add the fmt= option in a future version? I know that not all youtube videos support it, but the ones that do have way better video quality.

    http://www.baekdal.com/notes/personal/youtube-high-video-quality/

  279. Marc 07.14.08 / 2pm

    Hi, it would be nice to be able to configure the plugin to play hi-quality video. I only seem to be able to get low-quality playback.

  280. Marc 07.14.08 / 2pm

    Hi, it would be nice to be able to embed high-quality video. I only seem to be able to see the low quality one when I

  281. Les 07.14.08 / 1pm

    Awesome - This is just too simple. Works like a charm for me!

  282. Tanya 07.10.08 / 11pm

    Hi again Vladimir, the problem with the view of the videos when using Firefox emerged again.

    It was fixed for a while, but now I have it again - when I watch the videos in my blog with IE - no problem, when I use FF - it redirects me to the YouTube site and cannot be watched in my blog.

  283. bohora 07.10.08 / 8pm

    Hi vlad, goood work as like others said :)

    but i really would like to give you idea about... ehem wondering if its possible to make this plugin, somewhat REALLy smart plugin which can read blog title, search on youtube on that topic and automatically post it in that blog. you know somewaht it can save alot of times for some busy bloggers ;)

    Cheers
    http://www.bohora.com

    ps: oh by the way, bookmarking your blog :) i love peace colors!!!

  284. Vladimir 07.07.08 / 9am

    Version 1.91 is out with minor tweaks.

  285. Vladimir 07.03.08 / 9pm

    Gotcha MadHyde, thanks for that.

  286. MadHyde 07.03.08 / 8pm

    Hello Vladimir!
    I noticed 404 error.
    Line 365 in smartyoutube.php v1.9.
    x src="img/preview_embed_blank_sm.gif"
    o src="../wp-content/plugins/smart-youtube/img/preview_embed_blank_sm.gif"

  287. Vladimir 07.03.08 / 10am

    Guys, you need to paste the text directly into the post, not create a link of it.

  288. corey james 07.03.08 / 12am

    Hey Vladimir,

    I'm having the same issue on http://www.bigorangebox.com. Everything worked fine until earlier this week...

    Upgraded to version 1.9 but when YouTube videos are clicked they start playing for a second then I get a 404 error (this is only when using Firefox 2.x on Windows XP).

    Love the plugin -- are you working on this issue?

    Thanks!

  289. Vladimir 06.30.08 / 4pm

    Have you guys installed a plugin the changes the post content somehow?

    I've tested Smart YouTube 1.9 on both this and another blog and it still works fine.

  290. the digitante 06.30.08 / 3pm

    Darn - my YouTube videos appear to be broken as well. Using the Thesis theme, but also tried switching to others with the same result. This is bumming me out because this was my favorite WP plug-in - please help!

  291. Peter 06.30.08 / 8am

    this is weird. all my videos just disappeared. the embed code still shows up, but no videos.

    not sure if the youtube api changed or what.

    after realizing the videos were not showing up, i ugraged to 1.9, but the videos still don't show up.

    not sure what's going on.

  292. Nicolas. 06.30.08 / 5am

    Hello!

    Now the weird thing with the template is that when a post is made and it's on the homepage, an error messages shows where the video should be saying:
    You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

    But when you click to go to the actual post, the YouTube video shows fine. I'm not switching browsers or anything either. How can it say I need flashplayer enabled on the homepage, but then when I go to the actual post the video works fine?

    Thanks.

  293. Skywalker 06.29.08 / 1am

    It did not work for me. It shows only Title text, as text link.
    I am using FireFox 2. Someone below here had the same problem, seems...

  294. Bent Loophole 06.28.08 / 11am

    Hey, the autoplay feature works globaly.

    Is there a way of selectively turning it on? I want it to auto play on the front page but I also have a video page with more than 1 video and I don't want them to all play at once. If not I will put them on separate pages to solve the problem.

    Thanks again

  295. Bent Loophole 06.28.08 / 5am

    Thanks Vlad,

    I'll download the plugin and install it tomorrow.

    Bruce

  296. Rod 06.27.08 / 10pm

    I would like to have the same thing, without the "V" in http ...

  297. Vladimir 06.27.08 / 12pm

    Autoplay option added in the newest version 1.9. Enjoy!

  298. Bent Loophole 06.27.08 / 1am

    Vladimir,

    You saved the day again. I was trying to get YouTube videos on my posts for 2 days on my clients blog with no luck, after installing your pluging 2 minutes later my problem is solved. I appreciate all your efforts.
    I would like the option of having the video auto start when the page opens and saw the code "&autoplay=1" used successfully elsewhere.

    Do you know of an option to have a YouTube video auto start while using your plugin? Thanks again.

    Bruce Jones

    DesignAndPromote.com

  299. Rob 06.25.08 / 8am

    Hi, am using your plugin and it worked great so far (v 1.6). Tried to update to v 1.8 bu that caused problems. After the upgrade (tried automatic and manual) it doesn't show on the plugin page anymore. It is in the top menu now, but still works ok. Only the dashboard cannot be used anymore, for example to change color schemes. Uninstalled and installed several times, but that didn't help. Back to 1.6 now. Any idea?

  300. Vladimir 06.25.08 / 12am

    Reinstalling macromedia flash worked for me and solved firefox 3 issues. What spam plugin, I dont have one?

  301. Alex W. 06.24.08 / 11pm

    It's not just KeepingYouAwake who's having trouble with Firefox 3 and this plugin. Your plugin works awesome with every other browser I've tried, but shows nothing for Firefox 3 browsers -- no link, no anything.

    UPDATE: OK, I can now see KeepingYouAwake's follow-up -- and I also use AdBlock so that must be the problem (although I never changed any configuration...) Feel free to delete this comment.

    Anyway -- thanks for the great plugin! Keep up the good work!

  302. Steven 06.23.08 / 9pm

    How about a built in search link for movies right from the Post? Just as http://www.hyves.net/ is using for their members. Works great and very handy. Not everyone nows how to C&P an url and place this (+ http "v") in a post..

    Also a lightbox feature (on/off) would be a great and neat feature. Extra advantage would be the movie centers horizontal and vertical, no mores scrolling :D

    Thanks,
    Steven

  303. KeepingYouAwake 06.20.08 / 8pm

    My apologies, I found the problem. I use adblock on all the machines I use and, pending an update to the adblock plugin, the plugin is disrupting the dynamic insertion of flash components even if it's in disabled mode. The plugin itself must be disabled for proper functionality.

    Note: most users will not be able to use adblock until the next release comes out anyway, mine was only working due to a configuration specification I made to make the exception, leading to the failure. ;)

    Thanks anyway, and sorry for any confusion. Excellent work!

  304. Vladimir 06.20.08 / 7pm

    It seems I rushed a bit with the decision. I can confirm bloglines supports embedded youtube but I can also confirm google reader does not at the moment. I think it is a matter of days before they start doing it.

    Thanks for the notification though.

  305. Matheus Zeuch 06.20.08 / 6pm

    Hi there, I cannot see the RSS settings anymore. You said the it's not necessary anymore because version 1.8 put the video automatically into the RSS. This is valid for google reader as well? Can you confirm this?

    Thanks,
    Matheus Zeuch
    http://surfeio.com.br

  306. Vladimir 06.19.08 / 9pm

    Installing latest version of Flash from Macromedia site fixes issues with Firefox 3 freezing on youtube videos.

  307. KeepingYouAwake 06.19.08 / 7pm

    Yes, the normal embedding still works, but the plugin doesn't work with the released Firefox 3 for me at all either. Seems like a substantial problem with "record" downloads yesterday. hehe

    I wish I could help, but I would be glad to test for you.

    post using Smart Youtube: http://jonscottdesign.com/?p=157

    post using YouTube code: http://jonscottdesign.com/?p=131

    Any ideas?

  308. Vladimir 06.17.08 / 4pm

    From version 1.8 the video is automatically inserted into the RSS feed, so this panel is not necessary anymore..

  309. sa 06.17.08 / 3pm

    Hi there,

    Thanks for this great plugin it certainly makes my clients life a lot easier.

    In your last screen shot on this page, your admin section shows options to show the video in RSS.

    Everything is working fine for me apart from the fact that the RSS options aren't showing in my admin section.

    I'm using version 1.8 on a fresh install of the latest wordpress.

    Am I doing something wrong?

    Thanks again,

    S

  310. Vladimir 06.13.08 / 11pm

    Does normal youtube embed code work in FF3? If not then the problem is with FF3 beta.

  311. KeepingYouAwake 06.13.08 / 10pm

    I'm beta testing Firefox 3 which will release next week and the videos won't display. Could this be similar to the swfobject.js not working in FF3 either?

    Just a heads-up, but this will require a fast fix because the FF team is trying to set a record number of downloads that day, which is great news for web dev people. :) On the other hand it means major problems to your users unless it's just me, somehow...

  312. Vladimir 06.09.08 / 11am

    It wouldn't show because the redears were stripping off embedded code, therefore I had to make at least a screenshot appear which was much better then nothing.

    The next version of youtube will have full video in rss.

  313. Ira 06.09.08 / 11am

    I'm not sure what you meant about "would not show", it's not a living entity, it either embeds or not :-)

    what I do appreciate is the simplicity of the embedding, just giving the URL and the plug in with resize it, I like that, I just want it embedded in the RSS as well. can you at least have that as an option? that would make this plug-in a better choice for me.

  314. Vladimir 06.09.08 / 11am

    Before not too long, the video would not show in the reader so having a screenshot was a plus. Many people including me find it easier to paste the url then the embed code, because that is what someone would be sending to you if they wanted to show you the video.

  315. Ira 06.09.08 / 4am

    umm... today I just plop in the embedding code from YT and maybe edit for size. It even gives the full code in the RSS so my readers can watch the vid right there in Google Reader and probably other readers, instead of getting just a screenshot, so what am I missing really? sounds like this plugin give me _less_ than a copy and a paste from yuoutube does... what am I missing?

  316. CW 06.08.08 / 5pm

    Outstanding plugin ..running wp2.5 thanks for a really neat, simple plugin that does what it claims! A+++

  317. Vladimir 06.06.08 / 11pm

    What video sites you would like to see for next version? I plan on adding support for other popular sites for version 2.0

  318. Vladimir 06.06.08 / 11pm

    I addressed this issue in a next release which should be up tomorrow. Thanks for the feedback.

  319. Alex Leonard 06.06.08 / 2pm

    I seem to be returning a lot of validation errors - mostly due to additional parameters being specified after the object location, eg:

    data="http://www.youtube.com/v/E37qiafjT4E&rel=1&color1=3a3a3a&color2=999999&border=0"

    It's all the &border &color stuff..

    Here's my validation fail page:

    http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Falex.leonard.ie%2F2008%2F06%2F06%2Fbeing-fellated-by-a-groupie%2F

  320. rufus 06.04.08 / 3am

    Just realised why this is happening, you have to make sure the line
    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blah...
    is unformatted in the visual editor in wordpress, the visual editor could turn it into a link which is the cause of the problem...

  321. rufus 06.04.08 / 2am

    Hi,
    I am having the same issue as Tanya, when i view the embedded video in firefox it all looks good until I press play, then I am taken to the Youtube page rather than it playing within the browser?

  322. Ross 06.03.08 / 2am

    Vladimir,

    I added the "v" to the uTube citation and I get a small "block" tab in my blog article where the video should appear. I'm not terribly tech savy, so would appreciate your help & guidance.

    ross

  323. Dievochka 06.01.08 / 5pm

    Hi.. me again
    to pass the validation DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN
    I had to change the & into & in the code.

    For the WAI A1 because of the missing alternativ text in the I added a general text before the as
    " the Youtube video,as presented on this blogpost".
    It's ok now

  324. Dievochka 06.01.08 / 10am

    Hi Vladimir... it's great and usefull.. but isn't possible to have the same for our " dailymotion" http://www.dailymotion.com ? I think no, as there is no public API :(

  325. james 06.01.08 / 8am

    the effin best plug in ever. the rest can eat a load of crap.
    keep up the great work

    http://www.jamestran.net/

  326. Dius San 06.01.08 / 2am

    Great plugin, easy to use. Thanks to you, its make a wonderfull video blogging so easy to create now.

    More question: can it works to insert video sharing from another site ?

    Does not work for this site:

    http://www.videoku.tv
    http://www.seleb.tv

    since those two site are new video sharing site for my country.

    Cheers ! :)

  327. Brenda 05.30.08 / 11am

    Worked perfectly, right out of the box. Up and running in less than 3 minutes. This plugin rocks! Thanks so much.

  328. abiyotmulu 05.29.08 / 8am

    What a great plugin! Thank you Vladimir! A little help please!

    I want to embed part of the video on the front view of my video not the video Icon. Would you help?

  329. YouTubeUser 05.29.08 / 4am

    Installed am happy.

    Would like to be able to wrap text properly and completely around the video box instead of in line from the bottom - a la proper use of whitespace.

    Any thoughts?

  330. Vladimir 05.27.08 / 1pm

    Radi se na tome.. ;)

  331. Sasha 05.27.08 / 1pm

    Super ;) aj sad napravi isto za Google Videos sa pretrazivacem i ja te platim u nebrusenim dijamantima

  332. Tanya 05.26.08 / 2pm

    Hi, thanks for the cool plugin :-)

    Today I discovered that when I open my blog with Firefox and want to watch the youtube videos and press play, I am transferred to the youtube site to watch them there. This is not that problem when I am using IE.

  333. Vladimir 05.24.08 / 11am

    Jane, it seems to be a problem with WordPress. Namely Wordpress replaces all x surrounded by numbers into multiplication character (ouch!). Really strange why they decided to do that.

    Anyways I am releasing today a new version addressing this problem, let me know if that works for you.

  334. Bill Cecchini 05.24.08 / 7am

    Fantastic job. I'm impressed and grateful.

    Bill

  335. jane 05.22.08 / 2pm

    love your plugin. normally it works fine but when i tried to add this particular video, the letter x in the id is changed to '×' in the html source:

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1x8DJC8ZZY

    any ideas why? i tried disabling all other plugins, but that didn't solve the problem

  336. Adrienne 05.19.08 / 2am

    Aha!
    I was using a second plugin that was "helping." All better now!

  337. Vladimir 05.18.08 / 5pm

    I still see a link on your site. You should just copy the text do not make a link out of it.

    I released a new version of Smart Youtube plugin today it brings some very cool features.

  338. Adrienne 05.18.08 / 4pm

    Thanks for the quick reply! But all I'm adding is this:

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2EQiVHqQqQ

    And I get two of them...
    Of course, it works great here! What's wrong with my Wordpress?...

  339. Vladimir 05.17.08 / 7pm

    Adrienne,

    Just past the url to the video, do not make a link of it and it will work fine.

  340. Adrienne 05.17.08 / 6pm

    Hi Vladimir-

    Thank you for the great plugin. I've gotten it to work before, but this morning adding a video produces two embeds with random code.
    http://pacificchurch.com/index.php/women/
    (at the bottom)

    Any ideas?
    Thanks!
    Adrienne

  341. BruceA 05.16.08 / 6pm

    I found the problem: These videos have embedding disabled.

  342. BruceA 05.16.08 / 5pm

    I'm running into the same problem as eXpressions above: The videos show up in the posts, but when you press play it just says, "We're sorry, this video is no longer available." The videos do work if I try to play them directly from YouTube.

    I'm using WordPress MU, version 1.3.3 (equivalent to WP 2.3.3) and viewing with IE7.

  343. nomiso 05.14.08 / 9am

    my mistake.
    as steve said, just enter the url of the youtube video in your post, and add a V.
    too easy. dont think too much.
    thanks alot

  344. nomiso 05.14.08 / 5am

    have just installed it on 2.5.1 and working fine.
    when i press play on the video in firefox, it says that firefox doesnt know what to do with httpv.

  345. baron 05.10.08 / 5pm

    hi there .thanks for plugin:

    Does anybody know if tis script is compatible with Wordpress 2.5.1 ?

    Thanks in advance for any help on this!

    best regards

  346. Mario 05.08.08 / 10pm

    I love this you tube plugin...thanks for your effort.

  347. Kevin 05.07.08 / 2pm

    I'm just thinking, perhaps it would be easier for the users if we could have the "V" put in automatically? IE: if there was a button on the editor to add a youtube video which bought up a dialog box which you can then paste the youtube code in, and when you press ok it will put it in your post, but with the "V" ..?

  348. eXpressions 05.06.08 / 7pm

    A few of our videos that we have put on our blog using smart you-tube
    no longer work, the image is there but when you press play you get
    the message "We're sorry that video is no longer available."
    I've upgraded smart you-tube from 1.22 to 1.4, but that hasn't helped the
    videos to work. I also have trouble pasting the link from you-tube to the 'write
    post' window, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't, so then I
    type it in directly with the 'v' included in httpv........so what could
    be the problem where some videos work on blog and others do not?

    Thank you for your assistance.

  349. Charlie 05.05.08 / 8pm

    @ Tanya

    I also seem to having a problem in IE6 and 7 (XP on Parallels on an OSX 10.5 host). I'm just getting a blank space where the video should be (http://spacerdotgif.com). Strangely enough when I look at this site I also see blank spaces in the comments where videos have been embedded. I believe I am using the latest version of the plugin at 1.4. Everything is fine in Firefox and Safari.

    Not sure yet whether this is something strange with my set up, but it would seem I am not the only one having it.

  350. Toni 05.03.08 / 5pm

    Good day, I´ve used this Plugin in my blog http://www.blogwmp.com wordpress in portuguese in version 2.5 but I haver some problems, when I inserted the url of youtube with httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzzc38BcSW4 and then i my post apeards the video but with a word of the title with a link notfound, could you help me please

    Regards, António

  351. Vladimir 04.29.08 / 11pm

    Roddy, I released new version today that will take care of that issue and allow Smart Youtube to play a video from any youtube site.

  352. Roddy 04.29.08 / 10pm

    Thanks Vladimir,

    But I want to add www and es to the coding so I don't have to switch all the time I want to put a http://www.youtube.com or a es.youtube.com.

    Is it possible to make it more dynamic with youtube servers in the coding, maybe by adding all possible languages servers there not just www.

    Thanks

  353. Vladimir 04.29.08 / 8pm

    Tanya, videos on your site work fine for me. Everything seems to be in order.

  354. Tanya 04.29.08 / 3pm

    Hi,
    I used your plugin but it takes ages for the video to download on my page in Firefox 2.0. There is nothing to indicate that there is a video there. So my readers might think - what video? In I.E. I get the white outline of the video and then nothing plays.

    My code I placed in the post: Mercan Dede (name of post) is:

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7aIdw-drtM

    Can you help?

    Thanks very much if you can.

  355. Vladimir 04.29.08 / 7am

    Just replace es with www in your video link - the videos are always with the same name just across different youtube servers.

    Regards,
    Vladimir

  356. Roddy 04.29.08 / 3am

    Can someone help me out fixing the coding so it can work with other youtube languages videos as well. for example: httpv://es.youtube.com
    as for now it only applies to http://www.youtube.com videos.

    I know the should be changed on this section:

    function yte_check($the_content) {
    if(strpos($the_content, "httpv://")!==FALSE) {
    preg_match_all("/httpv://(www.|)youtube.com/watch(?v=|/v/)([a-zA-Z0-9-_]{11})([^<s]*)/", $the_content, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);
    foreach($matches as $match) {
    $the_content = preg_replace("/httpv://(www.|)youtube.com/watch(?v=|/v/)([a-zA-Z0-9-_]{11})([^s<]*)/", yte_tag($match[3]), $the_content, 1);
    }
    }
    return $the_content;
    }

    Thanks

  357. Steve 04.26.08 / 12pm

    G'day Vladmir,

    Thank you for your help. Yep the problem was that I was inserting the YouTube URL address as a link.

    When I just copy and paste it into the post it works fine in all browsers.

    Cheers,
    Steve.

  358. Vladimir 04.23.08 / 1pm

    Hi guys,

    I use Firefox 2.0 and the video works perfectly. There is no reason for it not to work. I can guess only that it is a conflict with some other plugin you use on the blog (or even some FF plugin) which I both use quite a lot of.

    If you have more details on the issue let me know adn 'l see what I can do.

  359. Steve 04.23.08 / 2am

    Is there a fix for the video not working in Firefox browsers (only get blank space and 404 error message)? Works fine in I.E.

  360. Mike 04.21.08 / 4pm

    Is it possible to get the plugin to work in user comments as well?

  361. lucia 04.21.08 / 11am

    would it be possible to embed the videos in a custom field of the post? when i do only the code appears :S

  362. Vazze 04.20.08 / 1am

    Have the same problem as a few others.
    In FF 2.x and 3.x (BETA) the movie only links out to the youtube homepage, but in IE 6 and 7 it works like a charm.
    Any fix for this??

  363. AI 04.16.08 / 6am

    like a few other users, having issues centering the videos - using 2.1.3 and the align-center button doesn't work..any thoughts?

  364. mertada 04.12.08 / 10pm

    It's fine work for me.
    Thanks.

  365. Anonymous 04.11.08 / 10pm

    I'm having problems with Firefox also. With IE it works fine, but in Firefox, when I click the play button, the player disappears and shows "Error 404 - Not Found".

    I disabled all Firefox extensions.

  366. Anonymous 04.07.08 / 8pm

    This works well with IE but not Mozilla Firefox... just shows whitespace

    Any fix for this?

  367. kareen 04.05.08 / 8pm

    ok I finally got it...

    when you go to write a new post
    start writing and when you get to the place where you want to add your video, I say video here, you can say anything you want, I select the text and click the create link icon from the text tool bar at the top and a window opens for me to place the code into. when you do that be sure it looks like this

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00000000
    be sure to make sure the 0000000 part is YOUR VIDEO REF#

    and it works
    GREAT
    but this took me several tries before my brain unfroze
    hope it works out for you...

  368. Vladimir 04.05.08 / 6pm

    When the plugin does not work it is usually some kind of mis-typing or using http://uk.youtube.com instead of http://www.youtube.com

    The correct format to type it in your post is this:

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWfksMD4PAg

    if it still does not work you probably have some post alternating plugin that is messing the embed video code. Try disabling plugins one by one until you find which one is it.

  369. jack 04.05.08 / 9am

    Doesn't work for me.
    I am using wordpress 2.5 (on my own web server, not wordpress)
    and the latest version of your pluging 1.22.

    It puts in the following code in my html

    <a title="guano" href="

    It shows the preview, but when I click on play I get:
    The requested URL /jack/<span class= was not found on this server.

    I don't see the class "youtube" defined anywhere.

    Am I missing a piece of something

  370. Belzoni 04.04.08 / 4pm

    I installed Smart Youtube and it works fine on the front page, but when I go to view the post int the category, the embedded video doesn't show up.

    any thoughts. thanks

  371. Jill 04.03.08 / 6pm

    Could you post an example of what the code is supposed to look like please?

    Just pick any YouTube video and paste the html. Are we supposed to use the standard YouTube code and just add the "v" ?
    Jill

  372. kareen 04.02.08 / 10am

    OK... got the video in but its throwing off the template, I'm a newbee with WP not sure what to do webaddress

    http://www.beasmiletoday.com

    i pasted the code in the code window,
    tried centering
    and making it smaller

    still off pls help

    also, i was going to suggest maybe putting in the zip some screen shots of what this all look like in the posting boxes when it's done correctly code and such

  373. jose 03.31.08 / 10am

    hey i updated to wordpress 2.5 and all videos become with the default size, and when I update the width and height on plugin options nothing happend...

    please help, is broking all my layout :S

  374. Vladimir 03.28.08 / 11am

    @Jessica: Yep, hit the align center button while on the link

  375. Mathieu 03.28.08 / 10am

    good job man !!

  376. Jessica 03.28.08 / 5am

    Great plugin, Vladimir! Tell me, is it possible to center the video in my post. Currently it only displays on the left, and I was hoping to have it centered. Any suggestions?

  377. idelsonar 03.25.08 / 3pm

    i have problem with firefox, when click to play video on firefox it redirect me to youtube page, but no problem with IE

    please help thx

  378. Vladimir 03.23.08 / 11pm

    Thanks Jeff for those points.

    Yes just center the link in order for video to be centered.

  379. concert reviews 03.23.08 / 8am

    I had the same issue as many above.

    The Fix -

    Do not copy exact link, make sure it starts with www.
    My video started with http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=BqkMV4xg0LA
    I changed it to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqkMV4xg0LA and it worked and still forwarded to the proper video?
    adding in the "v" of course

    It was the www missing in the "link" area on youtube

    Hope this helps someone?

    what about centering? Do I just center the link?

    thanks

    Jeff

  380. Surf Blog Spot 03.22.08 / 7pm

    This code and plugin are awesome!! So user friendly to use! Thanks again.

    Surf Blog Spot . com!

  381. Volker 03.21.08 / 4pm

    Thanks a lot, version 1.21 works again.

    Nice plugin. :)

  382. Vladimir 03.21.08 / 8am

    Just update the options on the options screen, no matter if there stay the correct values.

    You paste the code to visual editor.

  383. Glenn Twiddle 03.20.08 / 11pm

    Yeah it is set at that by default. Still no go. Am I supposed to be putting the link in the 'code' or the 'visual' box? I really really apologise but I am a blog rookie so I'm still learning.

    Thanks again ,
    Glenn Twiddle

  384. Vladimir 03.20.08 / 4pm

    Try setting width and height to 425 and 355 in the plugin options screen.

  385. Glenn Twiddle 03.20.08 / 3pm

    Same deal as the above guys, and only plug in I have running is akismet and ultimate tag warrior. Type in link and no youtube. Is there anything else that has to be turned on or off for it to work?

    Thanks for the help in advance.

    Glenn Twiddle

  386. Volker 03.20.08 / 2pm

    I'm having the same issues as described above: After upgrading from v1.1 to the latest version (1.2 by the time of this post) all my videos disappeared from my blog. Since I cannot find any hints on how to fix this error I hope that it's going to be fixed any time soon. Except for one SEO plugin I don't have any other third party plugin running.

  387. himem 03.20.08 / 2pm

    very nice plugin.

    keep up the good work.

  388. Vladimir 03.20.08 / 11am

    I see videos on your blog, can you confirm the problem?

  389. Desertbrat 03.20.08 / 1am

    Hi there!

    I have a little problem and hope you can help. I did as instructed per your instructions. For example:

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izPyK8506X4

    When I went to preview my video, it shows exactly what I typed above exactly as you see it...no video, just the typing. Is there something else I need to do?

  390. Editor at Select2008 03.20.08 / 1am

    Thanks a lot. This is a great plugin and it's filling a much needed gap.

  391. Vladimir 03.19.08 / 9pm

    It can be some other plugin but it isn't akismet since I also use it together with some 20-30 other plugins. It is something else.

    Can anyone post a link to a post which was working well before but does not work anymore with latest smart youtube?

  392. Lissa 03.19.08 / 8pm

    You should check out all your plugins, deactivate them one by one if necessary. I think my akismet plugin was interfering with the smart you tube... I deactivated it and the youtube videos played just fine.

  393. João P. Amaral 03.19.08 / 8pm

    Hi! I'm having the same problems issued before. I have my blog loaded with youtube videos and I embeded them with the 'v' and now they won't appear! It's really annoying! Can someone please send me a link with the previous version?

  394. Smik 03.19.08 / 10am

    problem solved for me:

    was a conflict with the plugin ImageScaler Modded 1.0
    deactivate this and SY 1.2 work perfectly !

  395. Smik 03.19.08 / 10am

    Same for me version 1.2 didn't work.

    installed plugins:

    Audio player 1.2.3
    ImageScaler Modded 1.0
    New Tag Cloud 0.3
    PhotoXhibit 2.0.10
    Smart Youtube 1.2
    StatPress 1.2.9
    Sticky Post

    Waiting for the fix where I can find the previous version?
    thanx

  396. Vladimir 03.19.08 / 3am

    Hi guys

    The link should be pasted to your post directly (visual editor). This is the proper format of the link

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRjaZsVRtgc

  397. Lissa 03.19.08 / 1am

    I'm having the same problem. Nothing happens when I paste the youtube link (with the V) into the page. I don't have very many plugins in wordpress... stats, akismet, all in one seo, seo friendly images, and smart youtube. And as far as I know, I don't have any firefox plug ins, as I've never downloaded any.
    And, to make sure that I have the basic idea: when you say "paste into the page" do you mean using the "insert/edit image" helper box or pasting the code directly into the non-wysiwyg page? Or both?
    Thanks!

  398. David Henningham 03.18.08 / 10am

    Tolwyn, what happens with your embed tags? Is there another way of embedding the clips that you use?

  399. RealityTVFan 03.18.08 / 2am

    Same problem as Tolwyn and David Hennigham here, it doesn't work and just shows the text (httpv://www.youube....) on the page.

  400. Tolwyn 03.17.08 / 9pm

    Having the same problem as David Hennigham.

    I either get text httpv://www.youtube... (etc) or nothing at all.

    embed tags of course work as expected.

  401. David Henningham 03.17.08 / 3pm

    Understood. Well at least now I know I haven't made a basic error. I'll see what I can do.

  402. Vladimir 03.17.08 / 12pm

    It may be a conflict with some of your existing wordpress plugins, or your browser and/or it's plugins. It's really hard to tell from this standpoint.

  403. David Henningham 03.17.08 / 12pm

    yes, that's what i did but it didn't work. Any ideas as to why? It just left a blank space, no window.

  404. Vladimir 03.17.08 / 11am

    Thats the correct way to do it. Just paste it like that in the post.

  405. David Henningham 03.17.08 / 9am

    So I was doing the right thing by adding the 'v' to the URL I got but still it doesn't show up, just white space. This is what I put in the post:

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEUOnNLlB8U

  406. dungan 03.17.08 / 12am

    Thanks! I just downgraded to the previous version, and it works again, so it's a lot less of an emergency now. I can't figure out what the problem is exactly, but with the newest version installed and activated, the youtube windows just disappear from the blog, even though the links are still in the post code, unchanged. Something's conflicting, not sure what.

  407. Vladimir 03.16.08 / 11pm

    Hey, can you discern what is not working? The plugin is used all over my blog and seems to be fine.

  408. dungan 03.16.08 / 10pm

    Hi! Incredible work. But: I just updated to the latest version, and now video links which worked with the older version are not showing up. I'm using WP 2.3.3. Should I backtrack to the older version? Thanks!!

  409. toni_acca 03.16.08 / 10pm

    Could you please write down an exact example of how it's gonna be written?
    Usually in a WP blog we use the mode [youtube=http://youtube.com/w/?v=_dIya1aJJKA]

    Now, I've tried the form
    httpv://youtube.com/w/?v=_dIya1aJJKA

    but tothing happens ... :-(
    And I've correctly installed on my blog your plug-in.
    Where am I making errors?

  410. Vladimir 03.16.08 / 6pm

    You should literally add 'v' to the youtube link you get.

  411. David Henningham 03.16.08 / 3pm

    Thanks for the new plugin. It's just what we need, but I uploaded your plugin to my plugin folder and activated it and I can't get it to work yet. I'm not sure what I need to do to my RSS feed options, and also I'm not sure what to do with the 'v'. Am I pasting in the 'embed' or the 'URL' from youtube? Do I literally add a 'v' to the link I'm given? Or am I looking for a link with httpv:// already in it?

  412. Vladimir 03.16.08 / 11am

    Released v1.2 today with validation fix and also added video width and height in the options menu.

  413. Todd Scott 03.16.08 / 4am

    Thanks for the plugin. I have one request for future releases. Could you put the tag's width and height in double quotes? (v1.1, line 143 of smartyoutube.php). That would help remove a couple XHTML validation errors. I made this modification to my site and it now validates for XHTML 1.0 Transitional.

  414. LiveQueens 03.16.08 / 4am

    thx, this is awesome !

  415. Coos 03.14.08 / 10pm

    Finally a youtube plugin that really works. No more raw code!

  416. African safari 03.10.08 / 5pm

    I'm looking for a wordpress plugin for my African safari blog that will open a video like the one on http://woodlandparkzblog.blogspot.com/ Any suggestion on where i could find it?

  417. Vladimir 03.07.08 / 11pm

    Pressing thumbnail in feed brings you to YouTube site. You can try that with my feed. The links you quote do not have to do anything with nor are produced by my plugin.

  418. cartmanxxl 03.07.08 / 2pm

    I hope it's on the plugin side; after all I can do without watching in Firefox and hope everybody else doesn't have the problem
    I found another way to embed YouTube in Wordpres but I would have to give up on visual editor in WordPress and it doesn't seem to work in IE7 so I stick with Smart Youtube; but hey here is another question - what happens if you press the thumbnail in rss feed? do you go to YouTube site? 'cause I get another failure and this time in every browser:
    Opera:http://img511.imageshack.us/my.php?image=operaio2.jpg
    IE7;http://img511.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ie7mv2.jpg

  419. Vladimir 03.07.08 / 2pm

    Firefox is my browser of choice too and the plugin of course works with it. If I am to make a guess what went wrong by looking at your picture I would say that it would be one of (many) firefox plugins you use.

  420. cartmanxxl 03.07.08 / 2pm

    firstly it's really cool plugin; thanks
    but here is a problem; it works perfectly in Opera and IE7 but fails in Firefox; I hope you can help me as Firefox is my primary browser
    here is the screenshot of the failure: http://img443.imageshack.us/my.php?image=firefoxfailpx5.jpg
    here is the site: http://www.fulham.pl

  421. Amy 03.06.08 / 7pm

    That worked, love it! Thank you!

  422. Vladimir 03.06.08 / 5pm

    You are not doing anything wrong, the youtube video window is just that size. However you can change the size and make them smaller. If you edit the plugin you can find code looking like this width="425" height="355", and you can change this to any size you need.

  423. Amy 03.06.08 / 5pm

    Is there a way for me to change the size the YouTube video appears in my post? I just installed it and it's bleeding over to my right column... http://www.amyschan.com/blog/

    I know I'm doing something wrong but not sure what. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

  424. Ross 03.03.08 / 2pm

    This plugin is great! And much easier than the other plugins available in wordpress. Thank you! Already tagged you in my bookmarks. :)

  425. BSI 03.01.08 / 12am

    Great plugin! Works straight out of the box.

    it has made my formatting life so much easier!

    Cheers for this.

  426. Vladimir 02.25.08 / 8pm

    This is not an issue with the plugin as I use it in Firefox and has probably something to do with the way your firefox is setup.

  427. Vikki 02.25.08 / 8pm

    Very helpful plugin and very easy to use. I have a question though. When I play the video on Internet Explorer, the video plays directly on my website. When I switch over to Mozilla Firefox, it opens up youtube website where I took the link from. How do I fix this in Mozilla Firefox to make it play on my website instead.

    Thank you.

  428. Vladimir 02.24.08 / 10pm

    Thanks Bryan, that is what I wanted to hear ;)

  429. Bryan White 02.24.08 / 10pm

    Good looking out on this plugin! I run a movie-themed blog and this really makes the entire process of embedding Youtube clips extraordinarily simple.

  430. Vladimir 02.07.08 / 3pm

    Not at present but I will look into this functionality for next version.

  431. craig 02.07.08 / 2pm

    can you embed a youtube video OUTSIDE of a post or the RSS feed ..?

    i wanna put a youtube clip in my sidebar ..?

  432. OwlBoy 02.06.08 / 11pm

    Thank you for this plugin. I am using it because I needed a way to show an icon in by feed instead of an embedded player. This allows it to be more apparent that there is a video in my post when something like Facebook aggregates by feed, and does not allow in-line embed, but allows img tags.

    I hope you can keep it up to date as wordpress evolves.

    -Owl

  433. Gad 01.26.08 / 4pm

    Just wondering if this will work for videos from other sites like googlevideo, metacafe if i just used the httpv:// when I paste the video link

  434. Vladimir 01.22.08 / 12am

    Thanks for the feedback it means a lot to me!

  435. Adrian 01.21.08 / 9pm

    Thanks for the plugin!! Appreciate it.I will also keep you posted on how it works

  436. Gary Hudson 01.15.08 / 12am

    This looks like a very useful plugin. I will be using it a lot. I will also keep you posted on how it works

  437. Agent EOS 12.21.07 / 12am

    Thanks for the plugin!! Appreciate it.

  438. Vladimir 12.14.07 / 12pm

    If you a look at the photo above in the post, you will see preview image of videos directly injected in the rss feed. You can also select to only inject video links.

  439. Mike Olbinski 12.14.07 / 4am

    How does your plugin help it get into the RSS feed? I have a theme that does the Youtube embedding on it's own, by using a custom field, but I'd like to get it into my RSS feeds.

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