How To Embed Video into Articles in WordPress 2.6 – Screencast Tutorial

Posted by on Aug 20, 2008 in Wordpress Tutorials | No Comments

youtube-movie-iconThis tutorial will show you how to embed videos from YouTube and other sharing sites into your WordPress blog posts and pages.

For information on how to maximize your video sharing efforts click here.

Here is the process summarized:

  • Go to the page on YouTube (or other video sharing site) where the video displays.
  • look for the EMBED: text and Copy the code (Command+C on a MAC and ALT+C on Windows)
  • You can in some cases do some customizing of the player before you copy the code.
  • Open a page or post in WordPress and type PASTE CODE where you want the player to appear.
  • two-modes-wpSwitch from the Visual mode to HTML mode in the WordPress Post window.
  • Find the PASTE CODE text within the HTML and Paste the Video embed code here. (Command+V on a Mac and ALT+V on Windows.)
  • Press Publish or View This Post to see how it looks!

First, a YouTube.com video.

And now a video from www.Revver.com.

And now a Playlist from YouTube.

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