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ThatPercussionGuy

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• May 9, 2020

• #1

I've done this before but dangummit i can't get it to work again.

I'm trying to post a youtube clip in the songs of the 80s thread but when i enter the embed code i get from youtube just code shows up in the post.

Feel like a dunce...please help.

Thank you

 

TMF Jeff

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• May 10, 2020

• #2

To do this, you take the video's ID from the URL, and put it in between "youtube" tags like so:

PHP:

[youtube]e-7UbU45a1U[/youtube]

 

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• May 10, 2020

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[ YouTube ] video id [ / YouTube ]

No spaces

The video ID is the part in bold below. Sometimes, it appears after "v=" in the YouTube url

https://youtu.be/m9We2XsVZfc



You can also quote this post to see the html

 

ThatPercussionGuy

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• May 11, 2020

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Thank you both so much....worked great