Update!
After posting to the WordPress.org forums, I was offered a few solutions on YouTube video embeds with WordPress 4.4:
Two work-arounds offered by Jeremy Herve:
These solutions were originally posted on this forum by Jeremy.
Alternatively, you can wait for the Jetpack update and follow the progress here. In the mean time, I will be using the second work-around offered by Jeremy.
Thank you Jetpack developers and Jeremy for all the work you do!
Original Post
WordPress 4.4 “Clifford” has just been released! I am very excited about it, but I wanted to take a moment and document an issue I am experiencing with YouTube video embed shortcodes:
A simple YouTube video embed uses the video URL in a WordPress Post:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24_gZA6tsuQ
Yields (Working):
Alternatively, you can use the embed shortcode to embed a YouTube video:
Yields (Working):
However, using YouTube video embed shortcodes does not seem to be working:
Yields (Not originally working):
Update!
There are two work-arounds to make this work. Please see the beginning Update! section of this blog post for more information!
I am a heavy user of YouTube video embed shortcodes since they allow me to customize the video player to match my WordPress theme and disable the suggested videos that normally appear when a video ends. Thus, I am hoping this will be remedied in a future update!
Don’t get me wrong. I am very excited about WordPress 4.4! With this update comes the notable additions of REST API and the ability to embed WordPress posts:
Both of these features are extremely important additions to WordPress. With the recent release of the Calypso App from WordPress.com the development of WordPress, as a whole, has been phenomenal in the last few months!
This WordPress future looks extremely bright!
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