Autoplay in SiteOrigin Video Widget not working for YouTube Video
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7Hi Rishi
Thanks for your support. So sorry for the hassle. I do see the same issue locally. I’ll log a bug report for the team to attend to ASAP.
In the mean time you could perhaps embed using a Visual Editor widget. It’s possible, I believe, to set auto-play to true in the URL. Let me know if you need a hand with that.
That’s a parameter in the YouTube options when using EMBED code right?
This is it I think. I’ll try and see if it works.
To make an embedded video play automatically, add “&autoplay=1” to the video’s embed code, straight after the video ID (the series of letters that follows “v/”).
Here’s an example:
So I tried it, but it’s not working
Here is the code I embedded in the text editor
Using the HELP available on YouTube – https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/171780?hl=en-GB
But when I go to the page – http://techydudes.com/test-video/
It shows as white screen only.
Almost there:
should be used when adding additional parameters but the first parameter needs a query:
For example:
Hi Rishi
Just letting you know that I’ve managed to fix this autoplay issue. You should see an update for the Widgets Bundle coming (version 1.3.1) coming soon.
Win :)
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