Title: Failed to Embed Error
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Failed to Embed Error

 *  Resolved [Tinjure20](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pauthake015/)
 * (@pauthake015)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/failed-to-embed-error/)
 * Hello!
 * I am trying out the new [Embed feature of WordPress 4.4](https://wordpress.org/news/)
   in my [Twenty Sixteen](https://wordpress.org/themes/twentysixteen/) theme.
 * When I tried to Embed a post from my website, using following code, or directly
   dropping the post URL as suggested [here](https://wordpress.org/news/2015/12/clifford/),
   I get **failure to embed** error.
 * `[embed> Post URL goes here </embed>`
 * I couldn’t figure out why I get that error message. How could I rectify this 
   error?
 * Thank You

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 *  [madivad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madivad/)
 * (@madivad)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/failed-to-embed-error/#post-6830264)
 * Out of curiosity, just enter some text ABOVE the embed line, anything (but more
   than a period ‘.’). Just write a short line, something like “here is a page I
   wrote earlier:” and paste your embed on the next line. Let me know how you go.
 * I think you know this, but what embed tags were you using? Square braces ‘[‘ ‘]’
   or greater/less than signs ‘<‘ ‘>’?
 *  [madivad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madivad/)
 * (@madivad)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/failed-to-embed-error/#post-6830272)
 * I just thought I would add. I didn’t know about this new feature of 4.4, so I
   thought I would go and test it.
 * I have created a dummy page and backdated it a year (to take it from my front
   screen) and linked it to another post and it works as predicted.
 * The test page with embed link:
    [http://dav3.net/2170/](http://dav3.net/2170/)
 * Which shows page:
    [http://dav3.net/519/](http://dav3.net/519/)
 * All I have in the page editor is the url without embed ticks:
    [http://dav3.net/screen-shot-2015-12-10-at-9-40-01-am/](http://dav3.net/screen-shot-2015-12-10-at-9-40-01-am/)
 *  Thread Starter [Tinjure20](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pauthake015/)
 * (@pauthake015)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/failed-to-embed-error/#post-6830288)
 * Thank you very much. I figured out and now it works fine.

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