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WordPress video embedding for the lose

July 7th, 2008 by Phil

Anyone care to explain why the video embedded in my last post destroys my weblog formatting? Or rather, why WordPress’ parsing of the HTML seems to have gone on an insane rampage?

Let me guess, there’s a plugin for that, right?

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4 Responses

  1. Because kses sucks for cleaning HTML?

    Posted by Mike Nolan on July 7th, 2008 at 11:27 pm

  2. I don’t know why sites make their embed codes so complicated; all you need is

    <object type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”432″ height=”285″ data=”http://static.videoegg.com/ted2/flash/loader.swf?Quality=High&file=http://static.videoegg.com/ted/movies/MarkBittman_2007P_high.flv&allowFullscreen=true”/>

    Posted by alf on July 8th, 2008 at 11:55 am

  3. Without the smart quotes…

    Posted by alf on July 8th, 2008 at 11:55 am

  4. Thanks alf, you’re right, that did the trick. Genius.

    Posted by Phil on July 8th, 2008 at 12:05 pm

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