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[jmacreations]

I am designing a custom page template using ACF and hoping to be able to embed a youtube video with the [x_video_embed] shortcode. Using an ACF field for the URL part of the shortcode. I currently have this:

<?php 	if( get_field('video_link')) {
		$videoURL = get_field( "video_link" );
		$videoShortcode = '[x_video_embed]<iframe width="1280" height="720" src="'.$videoURL.'" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>[/x_video_embed]';
		echo do_shortcode( $videoShortcode );
	}?>

The code works fine if i don’t use the variable. It’s only when i use the variable does it not work. When I echo the value of the variable to the page, it is exactly what i want in the src=”” section.

I have tried many solutions and wondering why this is not working. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Even a completely different way of embedding a video from a YouTube URL.

[jmacreations]

SOLVED!
replace the $videoShortcode line with:
$videoShortcode = '[video width="1280" height="720" src="'.$videoURL.'"]';

For some reason the [x_video_embed] shortcode does not work well. Maybe because it has opening and closing parts?

I hope this helps someone in the future – maybe devs have a different solution that uses the x shortcode?

[Christian]

Glad you’ve sorted it out and thanks for sharing. 🙂

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