Trying out a fancy-schmancy new comments plugin, so feel free to let me know how it’s working for ya. Or, y’know, if it is.
Update! Okay, so after a complaint from MrHead about being unable to embed a YouTube vid in a comment, I did some moderate sleuthing and found a couple other 3P plugins that claim to provide that functionality. One I failed to get working, the other…works! Better yet, it seems that our second candidate is a lot less fussy about which code it will allow you to use for the embed; you can either:
- Do as I do to embed ’em on the main page, ie, hit the “Share” button, then the “Embed” link, and C&P that code, OR
- Simply C&P the YouTube link to the page the vid is on from your browser’s (Brave, I hope and insist) URL bar
Both methods seem to do the trick equally well, so with that I think we might be all set here. Note: there are oodles of other file formats you can embed: jpg, gif, png, pdf, mp3, mp4, m4v, and plenty more besides. Enjoy, y’all.
Updated update! Okay, here’s a little random strangeness. After posting several comments myself, I noticed that the User level by my name shows up as Author instead of Admin, which…well, I don’t actually know what might be going on there, honestly. Also, the toolbar at the very bottom which allows for editing, deleting, and suchlike isn’t showing up at all. Within the actual comment box itself, there’s the usual HTML-tag options—B, I, U, and so on—but that’s it. Doesn’t matter all that much, and I can’t think of any reason you guys should care, but weird nonetheless.
As you were, troops.
no comment on this, your most recent posting
Testing. Testing. Rubber Duck Rubber Duck you got yer ears on?
That’s a big 10-4 there, Pigpen. (Ya wanna slide that rig back a few lengths there? Those hogs is about to clear my sinuses.)
Breaker 1-9, is anybody there? Come on back truckers, and talk to Teddy Bear.
And all of a sudden I know what tonight’s Tune Damage embed is gonna be. 😉
Oh, we got a great big convoy, a rockin’ through the night!
🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJPM-M_Z65o
Works for me.
If this posts, it works! Isn’t it great when a plan comes together? 🙂
Seems to. My concern was/is that, according to some of the reviews I read, it might tend to slow the site down somewhat. We’ll see about that, I guess. The added functionality and customization options seem pretty nice, so I figured it was worth a try.
Works okay, so far, Mike.
I know I had a “WTF, over?” moment the first time I went to comments and saw the new comment box, but it seems functional.
I don’t always deal well with change, so I decided to let it sit and play with it for awhile before saying anything.
Hoooo-KAY. Found a free plugin that supposedly, and I quote:
There’s actually another one that does the same thing; if this one doesn’t play nice with everything else I’ll try the other.
Testing testing, one mo’ time ag’in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJAoxTojxN0
Annnd again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJAoxTojxN0
Annnnd AGAIN.
Sounds so nice you had to play it twice…
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