Title: Embedded videos not working with https
Last modified: July 10, 2017

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# Embedded videos not working with https

 *  [Theonecloned](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theonecloned/)
 * (@theonecloned)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedded-videos-not-working-with-https/)
 * Before I go into the details I want to let you know that the site I’m having 
   problems with is an adult site so I won’t post a link publicly.
 * Basically what I am seeing is when going to my site with https the embedded videos
   do not display the preview thumbnail and the video won’t play. Since I have the
   301 redirects set to https this is a bit of a problem. There is an issue with
   some ads not displaying as well but I think if I solve the problem with the videos
   the rest will fall into place.
 * Everything seemed to be working fine last week. A few days ago I noticed some
   of the ads and several of the thumbnail preview images were not displaying while
   I was updating the site. I checked it on a couple other PC’s and other browsers
   and it seemed to be limited to Firefox on my main PC. Today is a different story.
 * I’ve got a support ticket in with my host to see if they can find anything out
   of the ordinary. WordPress and all plugins are up to date.
 * I’ve tried the SSL Insecure Content Fixer plugin with no luck. Any suggests? 
   What else can I check?
 * If anyone needs to look at my site to help diagnose the problem I can email the
   URL.

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 *  [Drew Westcott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drewwestcott/)
 * (@drewwestcott)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedded-videos-not-working-with-https/#post-9305466)
 * Hi Theonecloned,
 * How are you adding the videos to the site? Using the default WordPress ‘Add Media’
   button or are you using a particular plugin to support the video aspect of the
   site?
 * Drew
 *  Thread Starter [Theonecloned](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theonecloned/)
 * (@theonecloned)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedded-videos-not-working-with-https/#post-9305771)
 * Hello Drew,
    I purchased a theme that has the import functionality built in. 
   I haven’t dug around too deep to see exactly how the developer added the import
   functionality. On the admin bar there is an import button with 6 choices for 
   with sponsor to import from. Each sponsor has a search page where I can enter
   keywords and choose categories. When I hit search it displays a list with a thumbnail
   preview than I can either select individually or select all. I then have the 
   option to pick a category and either post immediately or import as a draft. If
   would help diagnose things I could dig around the functions but my php knowledge
   is….lets say, limited.
 *  [Drew Westcott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drewwestcott/)
 * (@drewwestcott)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedded-videos-not-working-with-https/#post-9308845)
 * So silly question but has that theme been updated recently and did the problem
   start then?
 * It could be quicker to ask the theme author if they are aware of any issues with
   SSL.
 * If you are still having issues let me know what the theme name is and i’ll see
   if I can find anything online for you.
 * Drew
 *  Thread Starter [Theonecloned](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theonecloned/)
 * (@theonecloned)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedded-videos-not-working-with-https/#post-9309271)
 * No recent update on the theme. The latest update was about 5 months ago.
 * I emailed him and am still waiting to hear back. I did chat with another guy 
   who uses this theme and he hasn’t noticed any issues on his sites.
 * I rolled things back a bit and removed a couple plugins and got rid of the redirects
   for now and have things back to working for the most part. I’m back to having
   the content warning when accessing the https but at least it’s there and working.
 * Any suggestions for updating my existing links to https? I think updating rather
   than forcing is going to be the key to solving this.
 *  [Drew Westcott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drewwestcott/)
 * (@drewwestcott)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedded-videos-not-working-with-https/#post-9315444)
 * It is starting to sound a lot like the theme you are using is hard coding links
   using non-SSL. If that is the case, then you will need to theme author to update
   the theme or a developer to look at amending the code for you.
 * It’s obviously a little hard to suggest other things without being able to see
   the site/theme, but I quite understand why you do not post them.
 * Good luck, let me know how you get on.

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 * [embedded video](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/embedded-video/)
 * [HTTPS](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/https/)

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 * 5 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Drew Westcott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drewwestcott/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedded-videos-not-working-with-https/#post-9315444)
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