Title: Creating API Key
Last modified: June 9, 2020
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# Creating API Key
* Resolved [michaelmartin73](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelmartin73/)
* (@michaelmartin73)
* [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-api-key/)
* Hello Frank!
* I’ve just downloaded another of your awesome plugins 😉 I’m a bit stuck regarding
the API key part of the install and wanted to ask for your help please.
* I’m very ignorant of all things Google – I created an API by sheer luck and lots
of trial and error for the index indexing of RankMath plugin, could I enter that
API or is that not a possibility? I cannot remember how I created the key at
all, and have been trying to make a new one without success.
* Thank you for your assistance.
* Michael.
* The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fcreating-api-key%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
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* Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
* (@optimizingmatters)
* [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-api-key/#post-12959711)
* Might work, might not work Michael, depends on how you created the API key ..
* Creating the key can be … challenging indeed :-/
* Thread Starter [michaelmartin73](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelmartin73/)
* (@michaelmartin73)
* [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-api-key/#post-12959958)
* You’re not wrong!
* I’ve made a new project for the plugin and got as far as creating the key:
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/8f3wz2mhwjdhw28/api-key.jpg?dl=0](https://www.dropbox.com/s/8f3wz2mhwjdhw28/api-key.jpg?dl=0)
* For some reason though when I copy and paste into the WP YouTube Lyte dashboard
and test, it says:
* ```
Checking your key ...
API key not OK, your key seems to be invalid.
```
* Do you have any idea why that might be or how I might fix that?
* Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
* (@optimizingmatters)
* [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-api-key/#post-12960094)
* Did you create that key on [https://console.developers.google.com/apis](https://console.developers.google.com/apis)
Michael? Because the screenshot seems to indicate you were elsewhere?
* Thread Starter [michaelmartin73](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelmartin73/)
* (@michaelmartin73)
* [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-api-key/#post-12960211)
* Hi Frank, you’re right! I was in the wrong place. I have the correct API key
and it is testing OK in the Lyte dashboard 🙂
* I am using this code to embed video in our blog pages (in a custom html block):
* ``
* Here’s the page – [https://reclaimdesign.org/diy-trellis-ideas](https://reclaimdesign.org/diy-trellis-ideas)
* Is there anything I need to add to this? Or will it work as is?
* The Lyte settings I have are:
* Player size: 640X360 (YouTube default for 16:9-ratio video)
Add links below
embedded videos: No Player position: Centre Force HD: No Add microdata: Yes Cache
thumbnails locally: Yes
* I noticed that selecting cache thumbnails creates what looks like a broken YouTube
video image:
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/2cagu4u03xwom3i/broken-video-image.jpg?dl=0](https://www.dropbox.com/s/2cagu4u03xwom3i/broken-video-image.jpg?dl=0)
* Is there a way I can change this to be something more user-friendly? Or have
I set it up wrong?
* One last thing – might there be any issues including this code:
* ```
add_filter('lyte_do_mobile','lyte_on_mobile',10,0);
function lyte_on_mobile(){
return true;
}
```
* And if I add it should the local cache be turned off?
* Thank you very much for your help 🙂
- This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by [michaelmartin73](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelmartin73/).
* Thread Starter [michaelmartin73](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelmartin73/)
* (@michaelmartin73)
* [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-api-key/#post-12960269)
* I’ve just seen this browser console error in the web dev test, not sure if this
is related to the broken video image?
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/bbohxega88tfmx5/thumbnail-error.jpg?dl=0](https://www.dropbox.com/s/bbohxega88tfmx5/thumbnail-error.jpg?dl=0)
* Thread Starter [michaelmartin73](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelmartin73/)
* (@michaelmartin73)
* [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-api-key/#post-12960283)
* And on mobile the video is not shrinking to fit the width of the screen (previously
it did)
* Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
* (@optimizingmatters)
* [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-api-key/#post-12960879)
* can you link to the page where this is happening so I can have look?
* Thread Starter [michaelmartin73](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelmartin73/)
* (@michaelmartin73)
* [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-api-key/#post-12960897)
* Hi Frank,
* Here you go:
* [https://reclaimdesign.org/diy-trellis-ideas](https://reclaimdesign.org/diy-trellis-ideas)
* Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
* (@optimizingmatters)
* [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-api-key/#post-12960982)
* the thumbnail is getting blocked by Sucuri firewall Michael;
* 
* you’ll have to check Sucuri settings to get this unblocked.
* Thread Starter [michaelmartin73](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelmartin73/)
* (@michaelmartin73)
* [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-api-key/#post-12961027)
* Thanks a lot Frank. I’ll get on to them.
* Why is it that the video is not responsive on mobile any longer? It retains the
large size for some reason.
* Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
* (@optimizingmatters)
* [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-api-key/#post-12961082)
* LYTE uses the width it gets and looks like the parent node(s) don’t have (max-)
width set correctly. You’ll need some CSS to set that straight I guess 🙂
* Thread Starter [michaelmartin73](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelmartin73/)
* (@michaelmartin73)
* [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-api-key/#post-12961103)
* Hi Frank, thanks a lot for looking into it for me. Can I please confirm I’ve
got the right parent node and then I’ll get on to the CSS 😉 Would it be the
table I’ve added it to `
` or higher up the ladder? If it’s
the table I have set that to be:
* ```
table.text {
border-collapse: collapse;
border-spacing: 0;
border-width: 0;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
width: 100%;
}
```
* Thank you very much for your help
* Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
* (@optimizingmatters)
* [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-api-key/#post-12961126)
* That was what I thought yes, but for reasons I don’t understand the width does
not “take”. Guess you’ll need to experiment some more .. 😀
* Thread Starter [michaelmartin73](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelmartin73/)
* (@michaelmartin73)
* [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-api-key/#post-12961169)
* It’s odd because if I disable the plugin the video becomes mobile responsive
again.
* Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
* (@optimizingmatters)
* [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-api-key/#post-12961450)
* odd indeed, but it’s related to the use of the table somehow; when dragging/dropping
the LYTE div outside the table, it is responsive;
* 
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