I am having some issues with my site. The first one, and the most annoying so far, was adding videos to my Blog. I tried adding a link from YouTube to my site, but I was left with a broken site and really bad headache from trying to fix it. Whenever I added the embedded code (from YouTube) within the code section of my page, post it, and then reopen it the layout of my site went weird! Fortunately I was able to solve this problem with the help of Jonathan (my module leader).

There is one reason in particular as to why i think this happened and that may be the version of Wordpress I installed. I have not directly tested this – as I would have to reinstall a newer version - but I’ve managed to work around the problem. What I had failed to notice was that the embedded code added to the post ‘broke’ each time I re-opened it or would add something to that post. Fortunately, with the help of Jonathan who pointed this out to me, we were able to come up with a simple solution – “don’t re-open or edit the page once you’ve post it”. Make sure to do all the editing or writing you need before publishing the post.

A simple way of testing this is to copy a random embedded code from Youtube, create a new post, paste the code and click publish. Now re-open that same post and change the view from Visual to Code a few times. Notice that the code has now changed?

Tip: You could try and install Wordpress 2.3.1 (the newest version at the time of writing) and see if that one works better.

Hope it all made sense.

(Thanks J!)

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