# Youtube Hugo-Shortcode workaround - when {{< youtube >}} won´t work
Inspired by a recent post from my friend, (Go)Hugo and Git mentor Michael Gasch :wink:, where he describes how he fixed the Hugo Shortcode for Twitter to suppress the default thread view, it came to my mind immediately that I faced a similar issue when I started blogging with the Shortcode which embeds a Youtube-Video into your post.
See how Michael fixed the normal behavior for the Twitter Shortcode `{{* tweet */>}}` here...
...and add it to your Shortcode folder to make advantages from.
## *When `{{* youtube */>}}` won´t work for your theme*
{{< admonition warning "Attention" true >}}
*This applies only to the `singleViewStyle = "casper"` configuration in your config.toml.*
*With `singleViewStyle = "caspertwo"` the shortcode `{{* youtube */>}}` works.*
{{< /admonition >}}
Besides embedding a tweet into your post e.g. to give a statement more expression/ more emphasis, or to comment a topic related tweet, or simply because it´s pretty cool, a Youtube-Video is also a good alternative.
I´m running the *Casper-Two* Theme for my Blog and back when I wrote "*Sometimes you gotta run before you can walk*", I absolutely wanted to have the *IRON MAN I First Armor test* Video included and it didn´t work straight from the start.
### Let me show you what I mean
I´ll add the video "Shortcodes | Hugo - Static Site Generator | Tutorial 9" here at this point of the post by using `{{* youtube 2xkNJL4gJ9E */>}}` in my post `*.md` file. :point_down:
Normally you would see the mentioned Youtube video here :point_up: but it seems that the Shortcode won´t work for my chosen theme.
## You are not alone
The best thing to do first, from my point of view, is not to google the (mis-)behavior, but rather go to the Github-Repo from your theme and have a look at the *Issues*. If there exists one, comment...if not...raise one.
So I had a look at the issues for Casper-Two and indeed, there´s already one open which covers this issue. I commented this as well and a really short period of time later, Salar Rahmanian had the code snippet for it.
This is simply great and one of thousands of things I´m really impressed with regarding Github and the Community.
## The Code
As Michael already described it in his post, we have to create a new empty file and this time we´ll call it `yt.html`.
```shell
cd
touch layouts/shortcodes/yt.html
```
Put the following lines of code into the `yt.html` file and save it.
```html
```
This time I´ll make use of our new Shortcode `{{* yt */>}}` instead of `{{* youtube */>}}` *et voilà*...
{{< youtube 2xkNJL4gJ9E >}}
...here we go :thumbsup:. Thanks again Salar!
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