{"id":1138,"date":"2009-04-20T22:54:38","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T02:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iomaire.com\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2009-04-20T22:54:44","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T02:54:44","slug":"getting-rid-of-youtube-ratings-and-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/20\/getting-rid-of-youtube-ratings-and-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Rid of YouTube Ratings and Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When YouTube started making the star ratings and titles the default for the videos available from its site, I quit posting the videos on my blog.   I also wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/07\/youtube-annotation-feature\/\">post<\/a> in protest, not that that did any good.  Being an artist, I couldn&#8217;t tolerate the visual crudeness that the clutter added to my blog.  I vowed never to use YouTube videos again.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ve found out how to get rid of the clutter!  For WordPress users, there is a plugin called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.viper007bond.com\/wordpress-plugins\/vipers-video-quicktags\/\">Viper&#8217;s Video Quicktags<\/a> that gives you the option to eliminate the stars and titles, but the plugin can&#8217;t be used with an off-line editor, to the best of my knowledge.  You have to write your post from the admin panel of WordPress, though you could probably create a post with an off-line editor, post it, and then edit the post from the admin panel.  I haven&#8217;t tried that yet &#8211; it might work.<\/p>\n<p>There is another way to get rid of the clutter: edit the embed code for the video.  If this seems difficult, it really isn&#8217;t.  Mike Abundo offers simple instructions on how to do it on his <a href=\"http:\/\/mikeabundo.com\/2009\/02\/08\/how-to-remove-titles-and-ratings-from-youtube-embeds\/\">website<\/a>.  All you have to do is insert <strong>&#038;showinfo=0<\/strong> in two places in the embed code.<\/p>\n<p>For blogs on other platforms (TypePad, Joomla, Blogger, etc.), do an internet search for a solution.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m real happy with the results!  I just <em>hated<\/em> what the clutter did to the eye appeal of my blog!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When YouTube started making the star ratings and titles the default for the videos available from its site, I quit posting the videos on my blog. I also wrote a post in protest, not that that did any good. Being <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/20\/getting-rid-of-youtube-ratings-and-titles\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1139,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions\/1139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}