OMG!! What a pile of sh*t! The Joomla police are at it again, deciding what content we should have on our websites! Are the developers writing Joomla for the public or just as a toy for themselves?
How many people embed [[youtube]] videos in their websites? A lot!! Including me! My wife asked me to add a short video to her website and I replied "sure, it will take me about 5 minutes"! Two hours later I was still scratching my head! A different website using the same version of Joomla and with TinyMCE plug in settings identical was fine. The site I was trying to add the video to was not fine. I copied working videos from site 1 to site 2 and they didn't work. I copied site 2 video to site 1 and it didn't work. Yet site 1 videos already present were working. I created a subdomain and just entered the iframe code straight into a blank "index.html" and it worked. All this fault finding and still no answer until I search the Joomla forum (thank you guys for your help).
However, having to amend a file which will be over-written at the next upgrade, all because Joomla decide that we shouldn't embed [[youtube]] videos and doesn't even tell us, is ludicrous. I agree that I can't move over to Joomla from Wordpress for exactly that reason. As somebody said, we just need a toggle to turn this "protection" on or off. However, if the devs did that we would then spend hours looking for it! Makes me soooo angry. So much time wasted...I imagine the devs are laughing at all the wasted time they have caused people.
My solution for now is to convert my Joomla site to Wordpress as I need to add embedded [[youtube]] videos often.
Hey, Joomla Devs! Why not create a "facility" whereby all Joomla sites return 404 errors and see if we can solve the problem by re-writing your code? Or, alternatively, you could concentrate of Joomla facilities that were actually easy to use and useful for websites! No? Sorry, I'm being naive!
How many people embed [[youtube]] videos in their websites? A lot!! Including me! My wife asked me to add a short video to her website and I replied "sure, it will take me about 5 minutes"! Two hours later I was still scratching my head! A different website using the same version of Joomla and with TinyMCE plug in settings identical was fine. The site I was trying to add the video to was not fine. I copied working videos from site 1 to site 2 and they didn't work. I copied site 2 video to site 1 and it didn't work. Yet site 1 videos already present were working. I created a subdomain and just entered the iframe code straight into a blank "index.html" and it worked. All this fault finding and still no answer until I search the Joomla forum (thank you guys for your help).
However, having to amend a file which will be over-written at the next upgrade, all because Joomla decide that we shouldn't embed [[youtube]] videos and doesn't even tell us, is ludicrous. I agree that I can't move over to Joomla from Wordpress for exactly that reason. As somebody said, we just need a toggle to turn this "protection" on or off. However, if the devs did that we would then spend hours looking for it! Makes me soooo angry. So much time wasted...I imagine the devs are laughing at all the wasted time they have caused people.
My solution for now is to convert my Joomla site to Wordpress as I need to add embedded [[youtube]] videos often.
Hey, Joomla Devs! Why not create a "facility" whereby all Joomla sites return 404 errors and see if we can solve the problem by re-writing your code? Or, alternatively, you could concentrate of Joomla facilities that were actually easy to use and useful for websites! No? Sorry, I'm being naive!
Statistics: Posted by snowgoose — Sun May 26, 2024 10:28 am