Don’t know if this is your only issue, but you’re using the_title() to build your URI. This ECHOS the title, which is not what you want. Instead, you should be using get_the_title(). I’d also urlencode the title, as Jan suggested. Your best bet is to print out the YouTube URI after you build it, then … Read more
You have to add the meta og:video tags into your header for it to recognize them. Simple Facebook Connect does this automagically for YouTube content: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-facebook-connect/ More info on OpenGraph tags here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/
The theme determines whether to show excerpts or full content on archive pages (e.g. the cateogry listing), and since you’re on WordPress.com, you’ll probably have to change themes to one that shows the full content on archive pages. There’s a listing here, don’t know how complete it is: http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/full-posts-in-archive-pages/ You might also try putting the … Read more
It is possible, but you’ll have to do a little work on your own (the Plugin is not needed). First, load the Zend GData Class. Second, you’ll have to read trough here.
maybe isn’t the answer to all your issues, but when i do use video i always use: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/vipers-video-quicktags/
Thanks to David Artiss I figured out this was a problem with the Windows Mode setting. By default it’s set to opaque but for it not to conflict with video in a popup
You can try the following plugin for uploading video to YouTube from your WordPress site. YouTube Uploader The plugin description says: This plugin allows you to upload your videos on youtube without leaving wordpress. Useful especially for video blogging sites. Though you need to enter your developer key and choose the method of authentication in … Read more
If working with wp_insert_post and the youtube api is too much work, or too complicated, you may be interested in the plugin called “Automatic Youtube Video Posts” (AYVP). It has been working quite well for us. There are some bugs (nothing critical) and it is not the most efficient plugin, but it does exactly what … Read more
You can use http://ifttt.com to set up a YouTube channel notification.
Something like what you are doing should work but I think you have a couple of things going wrong. First, it sounds like you’ve hacked the plugin. Don’t do that, just remove the callback from the the_content hook. In your theme’s functions.php add: remove_filter(‘the_content’, ‘append_the_video’); The youtube_video() function depends on the $post variable. That means … Read more