Help You tube videos (plus other things) not showing (jcink)

[Blue Ember 13]

Even after adding the custom BBcode for posting youtube videos to this site for some reason, no matter the browser, they do not show up on it.  How do I fix this?

Also, as certain other things do not show, such as, for example, posts pinned as announcements. I am wondering whether it is actually a glitch or something within the skin itself making this happen?  I have no idea what to do to solve this.  Can anyone help/advise?

[Arceus 1,082]

Well, let's start with, what codes did you use when you added the new BBCode? Most likely, there's a mishap in there somewhere we can fixy on up, so just copy-pasta them in here for me. ♥

 

Now, for pinned announcements, if I had to guess, you're probably missing this:

<% ANNOUNCEMENTS %>

This is from the HTML templates (for god's sake don't tell me you're still using CFS if you are, I don't want to know, p.s. that's a bad idea). By default, they would be placed above the topic rows, you can have a peek at the default HTML for that if you'd like to copy it or get a better idea of how it's supposed to function and where it's theoretically supposed to go. Hopefully this gets you started in the right direction on that.

[Blue Ember 13]

I am the absolute worst when it comes to coding & such apologies haha. So thanks, genuinely. And for being so patient with people like me.

 

Right. The code used at the moment for videos is 

<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/(PARAM1)"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/(PARAM1)" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>

Which I found on the jcink forum.

 

As for the announcements, you'll be pleased to hear that worked perfectly, so that is fixed. (And I'm not using CFS haha 🙂)

Though another thing I've noticed which is not not showing, are the post icons. Probably because I have broken something trying to add new/custom ones :s

[Arceus 1,082]

Alright, so I did some testing and it works fine; how are you using it on the board? It should be set to a 1 Param type in the ACP, and the BBCode, if it's called youtube for instance, it'd be used like [youtube]fMLnYaKadZw[/youtube] (Seven Mary Three. A+. Gods above I'm old.)

 

Glad to hear that's been fixed!

 

And post icon replacements work with just normal img HTML tags. 😃 If you're following the Jcink documentation guide on customising those, just make sure the replacement for it is in HTML, nothing fancy there.

[Blue Ember 13]

11 minutes ago, Arceus said:

Alright, so I did some testing and it works fine; how are you using it on the board? It should be set to a 1 Param type in the ACP, and the BBCode, if it's called youtube for instance, it'd be used like [youtube]fMLnYaKadZw[/youtube] (Seven Mary Three. A+. Gods above I'm old.)

 

Where in the ACP?  in the add new BBCode it is set to 1 Param, do I need to do it somewhere else too?

We are using it on the board just like that, I think. But nothing shows. For example here on any browser, no video shows. But the member has used the code as follows 

[youtube]47IrM5Es25k[/youtube]

 

the original youtube link is here if you need to see it for the video ID.

[Arceus 1,082]

Okay, that link helped more, and I found it.

So what's going on, is you're loading your site on HTTPS, and requesting the YouTube embed over HTTP. HTTPS will not accept insecure (HTTP) data being loaded on its pages and will automatically block it. There looks like there's another script or something loaded over HTTP that is being blocked by HTTPS as well, so you'll want to check everything else, make sure it can and is using https.

 

YouTube does support HTTPS, so change, in the BBCode in the BBC manager in the ACP, to using https instead of the http.

<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube.com/v/(PARAM1)"></param><embed src="https://www.youtube.com/v/(PARAM1)" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>

Like this.