Vertical YouTube videos not playing

Forum|Forum|10 months ago
March 11, 2025
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Hi, another post regarding a new website I have built using a ThemeForest template.

Can anyone tell me how to fix an error I'm getting with my vertical YouTube videos which throw up the following error: An error occurred. Please try again later. (Playback ID: dumNEWodUIUirvWz)

I imagine it's the code as it works fine horizontally.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

FWIW, I can't post Shorts in this forum either. It's a relatively new YT content category that's not supported by all plugins.

My workaround was to edit the code and replace shorts/ with embed/ like this:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Eo8vKXlR-DE

Hope that helps.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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Thanks. However, this still doesn't work for me and I get the same error code. Maybe, I'll just have to edit the video and put it on 16.9 format with bars either side?

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Or say "buh-bye" to the outdated jQuery plugin.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/shorts-video-embedder-for-youtube/\

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

BenPleysier

Community Expert

This error message indicates that the JavaScript code in tbvws.js is attempting to access a property of a null object. Specifically, it is trying to read the property '1' from an object that is null. This typically happens when the code expects a certain element or data to exist but it is not present or initialized correctly.

Edit:

On further inspection, the '/shorts' part in this line is causing the error

<div class="portfolio-overlay"> <a class="popup-youtube stretched-link" href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Eo8vKXlR-DE"></a>

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