- Find a video you like on YouTube,
- Start a new blog entry, and think up an appropriate title (witty and/or attention-grabbing is better),
- Copy the handy HTML code provided by YouTube and paste it into the HTML editor in your blog,
- Click the "update" button to return to your blog's WYSIWYG view,
- Click the "save entry" button,
- Admire your... Oh bugger, where's my video gone?
- Click the "edit" link to open your blog entry again,
- Click the "HTML" button to see what's happened to your HTML,
- Wonder why your HTML code seems to have turned itself into a random jumble of code that makes no sense to anyone,
- Repeat steps 3 to 6 at least 5 times,
- Google for an answer to the problem,
- Try 15 different permutations of your Google search. Still nothing,
- Google for a plugin to work around the problem,
- Find a plugin but not too sure if it'll work, so off we go to take a database back-up before anything else is done...
So, far from being able to upload a video about a floating dog, I'm now looking for a way of putting YouTube videos into blogs without breaking everything. Oh, happy days...
/al - trying once again not to break anything...
