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Hi Marko,

One sidenote. Messing around with this a little more during our exhanges (and thanks for the prompt and thorough exchanges), it seemed that the FIRST save worked OK. It was when the post would either auto-save, or when I'd save it again, that the asset would go bad.

The workaround I found was to put in the [youtube= . . .] just before publishing, and letting the Publish event act as the save. Then it worked. I just won't edit the post again!

;-)

Good luck. You do have a great service with Zemanta. Keep it awesome!

I put in [youtube= . . .] and when I save it, it gets saved as a thumbnail of the video, but not as the player. It gets jammed out to the right, under the Zemanta Reblog logo at the bottom. It's a mess.

Hi Marko,

Great to have your ear! The main problem is that this is violating my blogging. Every other Zemanta feature is a suggestion, not an intrusion -- tags, links, pictures, stories. This is the first time I've seen Zemanta appropriate part of my post without my permission, do something that messes it up, and leave me no option.

Frankly, it's very clear what the option is -- suggest, and let me insert it. Don't insert it yourselves. It doesn't work, and it has me on the verge of uninstalling a tool that I find otherwise incredibly valuable and of which I've been a huge fan and public advocate when I speak on these topics.

I think you chose poorly. You should leave the links as custom links. Obviously, the author has inserted the media asset and knows what he/she wants. You shouldn't intrude.

I think you guessed dead wrong.

Please fix!

Thanks.

By the way, I've been a huge fan of Zemanta. This is the first mistake I've seen you guys make. Don't cop a plea. Don't shift the blame. You've messed up, please now fix it.

Why does Zemanta even replace a URL entry with an image? With anything? This is a native WordPress command string, and you're messing with it!

This worked fine until recently. This is the first I've experienced it, and there seems to be no way to stop Zemanta from appropriating my explicit entry. I've tried it in the HTML editor, and your program still zaps it.

I wouldn't shift the blame to WordPress. I'll uninstall Zemanta if I have to get this to work. Your plug-in is causing the problem.

Also, why is Zemanta FORCING itself into my post in this way? Usually, it suggests. Now, I can't make it STOP!!