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YouTube Old Embed Conversion Fix

Upgrade your Embedded YouTube Code

YouTube Updated Their Embed Code

Prior to 2015, embedded YouTube videos used to rely on Adobe’s Flash software to play. Since then Flash has been determined to be a security problem, browsers have stopped supporting it, and Adobe itself is going to kill it off completely in 2020.

In most cases, the old way still works, so you may not even realize you still have it on your site.

This fix will convert the old style embeds to the new, future proof code.

Before:

<object width="425" height="344" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/EET2c8DKBzg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/v/EET2c8DKBzg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" allowscriptaccess="always"allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" /></object>

After:

<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EET2c8DKBzg" width="425" height="344" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" data-mce-fragment="1"></iframe>

The Blog Fixer ® to the Rescue

This fix will…

  • Convert any old Flash YouTube embeds you may still have in your content into the modern <iframe> style embeds YouTube now uses.
  • The size and appearance of the videos will remain the same.

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“With hundreds and hundreds of blog posts on multiple sites, it was a daunting task to try to keep up with Google requirements, affiliate rules and more! Thankfully the Blog Fixer came to the rescue and saved my team an insurmountable amount of hours trying to fix “all the things”.”

Ruth Soukup

Ruth Soukup
Elite Blogging Academy

The Blog Fixer to the Rescue!

Convert outdated YouTube embed code to the modern, fully supported equivalent.

 

As always, all of our fixes are provided as 100% done-for-you services without any software for you to learn.