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Hi all I've created a function that basically allows the user to input the embed code for youtube into a custom field called youtube and this will then be styled on a wordpress post. Now I can get it to work perfectly until I want to wrap some CSS around it. Could you have a look where I'm going wrong. I think it's because I'm closing and opening PHP code? Thanks

 <?php
    function youtube(){
        $ytvalue = get_post_custom_values("youtube");
        $youtube = $ytvalue[0]; 
        return '<div class="youtubeVideoWrapper">
                <div class="youtubeVideoHeader"></div>
                <div style="clear:both"></div>  
                <div class="youtubeVideoOuterContainer">
                <div class="youtubeVideoInnerContainer">';

        return $youtube;

        return '</div>
                </div>
                </div>
                <div style="clear:both"></div>';

                    }
        add_shortcode('youtube', 'youtube');

    ?>
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Your function is going to hit the end of that first return and stop. Concatenate the strings and it should start working.

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Update - Ignore the comment below sorted it with google and your help thanks very much :)Hi thanks yeh I just read the code will stop executing after the first return. Any chance you could show me how to concatenate the strings? It's a term im very unfamiliar with. – Mark Jan 28 '12 at 17:50
Concatenation is as simple as using the concatenation operator, which is just .. So say that I have two strings $foo = 'string' and $bar = 'concatenation', $foo . $bar would be stringconcatenation and $foo . ' ' . $bar would be string concatenation – m0r7if3r Jan 28 '12 at 17:59

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