For the Frog especially

If you’re going to do a music video-centered post, and don’t want to screw up the design and give me a headache, please do one or more of the following:

  1. Write an “Excerpt” and place it in the “Excerpt” box you’ll see on the post edit screen, right below where you do the post. This is the preferred method, and is good practice for all posts that you don’t want just to have auto-excerpted;
  2. Format your post as an Aside AND put it in the “Asides” Category (very top of the list) – which will exclude it from the featured posts “widget”;
  3. Use the “embed HTML” option on the music videos instead of just putting up the raw links to let the blog embed them for you.

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    • Just write a little excerpt for the excerpt box if you can’t be bothered to copy-paste the embed code.

      The good think about copy-pasting the embed code from the YouTube site is that you can frequently adjust it specifically to size. You have up to 740 pixels to exploit in the current layout, tho 640 is generally considered wide enough before switching to fullscreen view.

  1. Try this:

    All you have to do to add a list [youtube video gallery] to your post is to add a line like this: [myyoutubeplaylist LO3n67BQvh0, WGOohBytKTU, iwY5o2fsG7Y, PyKNxUThW4E, 1cX4t5-YpHQ, SJ183htYl-8, eWwoHPrrJYY, bja2ttzGOFM]

    The id’s like “LO3n67BQvh0” for instace is youtube-clip id’s. LO3n67BQvh0 is the clip found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO3n67BQvh0, so to show a youtube-clip simply take part of the url after “v=”. Then simply add more id’s separated by “, “.

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