Balls and Walnuts
more than you ever wanted to know
Computer me literate not
I had to laugh when, in a recent email, Eugie Foster rejoiced over me being a WordPress blogger. She thought I might be able to bail her out of certain problems she’s having with The Fix’s reviewer interface.
But if you had a moment, I’d appreciate any insight you had that would keep me from having to wade into the code and hack it up from scratch.
And a moment later she’s talking about tweaking Stylesheets, like that’s something I know how to do. I guess I’m flattered. And I guess this makes me more sympathetic to my patients who greet me with blank looks when I lapse into Medicalese.
Anyway, I’m wondering whether to upgrade to WordPress 2.3, but I don’t understand what any of the improvements mean. Not a single one. How can I appreciate native tagging support when I don’t know what a tag is? What are canonical URLs? And what is TinyMCE? It sounds like a midget rapper.
And I’m sure this post of Dean’s is funny, but I don’t even have the knowledge base to make a mistake like that, let alone understand why it’s so moronic.
Bottom line? All I want from WordPress is the ability to post videos. Lyvvie figured it out. Time for me to try, too.
D.
I’m waiting on upgrading until all the plugins I use are compatible.
Is this the video you want to display?
Never mind, guess I can’t post a video in a comment.
But, this would be the code if you wanted to do it in a post:
Never mind. Guess I can’t post the code either.
I tried to help ya, really, I did!
For what it’s worth, the code I tried to paste does work.
Can I post more than 4 times? Testing…
Either WordPress doesn’t like my attempts to post example code, or it went into moderation. Hopefully the latter, since, of my multiple attempts, WordPress can’t dislike all of them!
Nope, nothing went into moderation. But no, WP doesn’t appear to take kindly to your code.
As for video uploading, I followed all the directions (at YouTube), and it still won’t upload. Drat! Or perhaps I should be patient and see if the video shows up after a while.
Okay. The easy way?
1) Find the video you want on YouTube.
2) Copy the code that’s in the text field labeled “Embed”.
3) Paste the code into your WordPress post.
4) Publish!
You’re not putting the code between “code” tags in WordPress, are you?
Ok, following all the code talk: Doug, my post was pained. I was in genuine pain. How do I, gently, explain to someone who considers himself (and is considered by management to be) a senior developer that saying something like that means he doesn’t know what he is doing? How do I explain this without sounding condescending?
It would be like you trying to explain to, oh, a charge nurse why we need to have this stupid liquid red stuff in our veins.
Dan: I’ve tried that before, but I suppose I can try it again. And no, I don’t do anything funky, I just cut and paste and it yields gibberish.
Dean, I understood that much of it. I didn’t comprehend the details well enough to know why it was such an appalling question.
Ooo! Ooo! Me, too!
I can’t embed YouTube vids, either, even following the directions explicitly, so I’ve given up.
*sigh*
If you ever figger it out, Douglas, please let me know, ‘k?
Will do, Kris. But it seems impossible 🙁