I am posting this on Vanillaforums.org and this is regarding the Open Source download version, not the company-run pimped up commercial version of the forum which is running here.
Let me ask clearer, perhaps I will be more successful in getting an answer:
In the open source version of Vanillaforums, not the commercial version, how can I get it to automatically embed youtube and vimeo videos when users post the URL?
And by the way, flagged as TROLL wtf: How was my previous message a troll message. I am trying to communicate that I am not a commercial customer, but a user of the open source script. Therefore it makes little sense to "show that it works" in that post above, because god knows how different/heavily modified this commercial version is to the open version.
You were flagged as troll for your snarky comment, poking a dig at Vanilla and commercial version. This entire forum is dedicated to the free open src version.
Your remark:
not the company-run pimped up commercial version of the forum which is running here
If you have the inability to post a youtube link, perhaps running forums isnt your thing. However there could be something more sinister afoot... like your version of Vanilla, are you using custom theme, are you using embed, are you using wordpress, have you got any runtime js errors, .....
Lol thanks =) Well sorry about snarkyness, didn't mean for it to come across that way.
Uhm. I have been running forums since 2004, and trying to switch to Vanilla now.
Since I am running everything as default with the latest version. I can only conclude that
either the WYSIWYG editor i messing it up, or that it perhaps isn't working in the current version.
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I have been running forums since 2004, and trying to switch to Vanilla now.
Ok, good, we're getting somewhere. Which WYSIWYG editor are you using? From which forum system did you switch?(lol, nevermind, it's phpBB3) Look in the 'Discussions' and 'Comment' table. What do you see in the columns for 'Format'
Small tip: If you'd like to change the size of those auto-embedded videos in the comments this line in your CSS will do it (especially those who changed their template might need this).
.Video embed {width: 520px;}
It also seems to me that for example you have a discussion with a lot of videos embedded, a smaller size seems to speed up the loading time. Don't know why, usually i wouldn't count that in if you do a simple CSS resize.
Links that are pasted into the wysiwyg editor may not be converted to video embeds. We convert naked links, but not links that have already been posted as an anchor tag.
I'm also not sure that links should be expanded with the wysiwyg editor. It's not a wysiwyguial (what you see is what you get unless it's a link) editor.
As @Todd says, this is a common misunderstanding with the WYSIWYG editor. Paste the URL as plain text, don't use the 'Link' button.
Also, the only feature difference between open source Vanilla and hosted Vanilla is that there are about 8 more addons on the hosted version. Basic stuff like embedding videos is precisely the same.
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1 • Off Topic Insightful Awesome 1LOL •Doesn't do anything else than post the raw url. Running vanilla forums latest, everything set to default & default theme.
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0 • Off Topic Insightful Awesome LOL •I am posting this on Vanillaforums.org and this is regarding the Open Source download version, not the company-run pimped up commercial version of the forum which is running here.
But the Youtube vid was indeed funny :-)
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2 • Off Topic Insightful 1Awesome 1LOL •No this does not work.
Let me ask clearer, perhaps I will be more successful in getting an answer: In the open source version of Vanillaforums, not the commercial version, how can I get it to automatically embed youtube and vimeo videos when users post the URL?
And by the way, flagged as TROLL wtf: How was my previous message a troll message. I am trying to communicate that I am not a commercial customer, but a user of the open source script. Therefore it makes little sense to "show that it works" in that post above, because god knows how different/heavily modified this commercial version is to the open version.
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0 • Off Topic Insightful Awesome LOL •WHAT VERSION OF VANILLA ARE YOU USING !
You were flagged as troll for your snarky comment, poking a dig at Vanilla and commercial version. This entire forum is dedicated to the free open src version.
Your remark:
If you have the inability to post a youtube link, perhaps running forums isnt your thing. However there could be something more sinister afoot... like your version of Vanilla, are you using custom theme, are you using embed, are you using wordpress, have you got any runtime js errors, .....
I managed to do this by posting the actual link
p.s. changed FLAG to LOL not TROLL
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1 • Off Topic Insightful 1Awesome LOL •Lol thanks =) Well sorry about snarkyness, didn't mean for it to come across that way.
Uhm. I have been running forums since 2004, and trying to switch to Vanilla now. Since I am running everything as default with the latest version. I can only conclude that either the WYSIWYG editor i messing it up, or that it perhaps isn't working in the current version.
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1 • Off Topic Insightful 1Awesome LOL •so what is your version ?
View src code and look at the css file link should have something like:
/design/style.css?v=2.1a24.1
Usually the easiest way to figure it out.
If you provide link we can test, but I agree could be the editor you are using.
Try disabling all plugins, and then use the buttonbar editor. You can find it in addons section
If you have firefox and firebug open the web inspector, click console, refresh page and see what errors you have
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1 • Off Topic 1Insightful Awesome LOL •Ok, good, we're getting somewhere. Which WYSIWYG editor are you using?
From which forum system did you switch?(lol, nevermind, it's phpBB3)
Look in the 'Discussions' and 'Comment' table. What do you see in the columns for 'Format'
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0 • Off Topic Insightful Awesome LOL •The plot thinkens. I converted from SMF to PHPBB3 to Vanilla. That's how much I wanted to try Vanilla.
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0 • Off Topic Insightful Awesome LOL •Ah, gotit, now it's only to solve the problem (probably easy once the details are known)
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0 • Off Topic Insightful Awesome LOL •Small tip: If you'd like to change the size of those auto-embedded videos in the comments this line in your CSS will do it (especially those who changed their template might need this).
.Video embed {width: 520px;}It also seems to me that for example you have a discussion with a lot of videos embedded, a smaller size seems to speed up the loading time. Don't know why, usually i wouldn't count that in if you do a simple CSS resize.
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0 • Off Topic Insightful Awesome LOL •just copy the embed code from youtube, and paste it in the editor on the html side but use embed instead of iframe
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0 • Off Topic Insightful Awesome LOL •Links that are pasted into the wysiwyg editor may not be converted to video embeds. We convert naked links, but not links that have already been posted as an anchor tag.
I'm also not sure that links should be expanded with the wysiwyg editor. It's not a wysiwyguial (what you see is what you get unless it's a link) editor.
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5 • Off Topic Insightful Awesome LOL •Sorry, but that's not entirely evident or really stated anywhere from what I can see.
There was a great post a while ago on the Vanilla blog about injecting humor into a discussion.
I hope you all make a lot of money and ease up a bit!
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-1 • 1Off Topic Insightful Awesome LOL •As @Todd says, this is a common misunderstanding with the WYSIWYG editor. Paste the URL as plain text, don't use the 'Link' button.
Also, the only feature difference between open source Vanilla and hosted Vanilla is that there are about 8 more addons on the hosted version. Basic stuff like embedding videos is precisely the same.
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