2 Steps To Add Youtube Video to WordPress
Perhaps it will not be a huge discovery to anyone using WordPress for while but if it helps even one single person I will consider my mission accomplished.
Videos add great value and interaction to your Web 2.0 blog but it might not be as easy as I have discovered yesterday. New version of [tag-tec]Wordpress[/tag-tec] includes 2 tabs in create new post or page area with one of them being the “Code” tab. Youtube provides you with a complete html code to embed it on your site and to me it seemed like logical step to simply click on Code tab, add the html for video and then save post.
As I have discovered yesterday – it don’t work that way. So here is a simple 2-steps process to add [tag-tec]Youtube[/tag-tec] [tag-tec]video[/tag-tec] to your WordPress blog.
By default WordPress enables visual editor for every user to make writing and posting to your blog as simple and painless as possible. Addition of “Code” tab made it also very easy to paste html code into your post or new page and have additional customization if you so desire. But that doesn’t work with embedding videos. If you would like to add video you will have to follow this simple process and then revert it to normal when done.
This process assumes that you are trying to add video to Already existing post or page. If you don’t have it yet, create your content, do all the formatting as you want to appear but don’t publish it yet. Basically set everything to the point where the only thing that is left – add video to a location in post you have defined.
Step 1. Disable Visual Editor on your user profile.
This one is required if you want to add videos as I have learned but it’s a simple process. Open your WP-Admin and then go to Users –> Your Profile (Step 1 in picture below). Simply remove check mark from “Use the visual editor …” (Step 2) and then click Update Profile (Step 3). Now you are done and ready to embed video into your post.
Step 2. Embed The Youtube Video into post or page.
Once you have disabled visual editor in your profile got to Manage menu in WP-Admin and choose “edit” for the post that video goes into. Your post will appear without visual editor, just like you see in picture below. Simply add yourtube video code (Step 1) and then Save (Step 2) your post. If post hasn’t been published yet – your option might be publish instead of save.
Once all steps completed and your post published simply return to your profile and re-enable visual editor. Please remember you will have to disable it every time you decide to edit content with embedded video. So there you have it – 2 simple steps to add youtube video to your [tag-tec]web 2.0[/tag-tec] WordPress blog.
And when you are ready to take it to next level and making a really copy/paste process that helps you dominate search engines, have a look at Video Utility Poster!
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Alex Sysoef is an IT Consultant, Internet Marketer and ProBlogger who shares his passion and knowledge of WordPress, SEO, Social Media and traffic strategies on his blog WordPress Howto Spotter. Connect on Twitter or Facebook
thanks for the great work
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Thanks…I too have a host wordpress account and was not able to use the embedded You Tube link without doing what you recommended. Thanks for the help!!!
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Very Good Article..Found it really very useful…I would love to see more such articles
on this blog.
Hey Alex, great post, thanks alot! It really helped me. I did have one question, do we have to go back and turn the visual editor back on, or can’t we just leave it off? Does it matter? Ok, thanks!
regards,
Cori
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well m not the host of that site but when i post the video with embedded code given @ youtube site…the code goes miss n the page appears 2 b blank…. wat 2 do?
Even with the visual editor enabled, YouTube videos seem to be iffy with my blog since the latest update. Sometimes it’ll shift a column underneath the main column, or the video will appear in the bottom corner of the page and all text in the post will be centered. Odd.
I used wordpress both 2.6 and 2.3.2 but the RSS can not display in my blog.
Could you help me to solve this.
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thanks,
THANK YOU FOR YOUR KIND ATTENTION ON LETTING US KNOW HOW TO PUBLISH VIDEOS ON WORDPRESS. Please take a look ate the post WE THINK at the URL given above, to see that this kind of action like you did – “sharing a usefull information” – is being recognized as THE most important cognitive change of this century. Sharing!!
thanks a bunch! it worked at first!
kind regards,
Roberta
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Thank you very much for your help.. i tried for hours on how to put you tube video’s to my new site..
now i can put some nice anime in my blog.. thx
You are AWESOME. I’m HTML-challenged to begin with, so this post was much needed.
Thanks!
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Whilst it may be a slightly dated post I still would like to send a little thank-you for the info and subsequesnt discussion. As a WordPress newbie, nice clear instructions like this really do help and are appreciated.
After trying a few other dud instructions, this worked like a charm! Thank you!!
Hey thanks for the tutorial.
But i used a plugin in my website for embedding youtube video.
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I used wordpress both 2.6 and 2.3.2 but the RSS can not display in my blog.
Could you help me to solve this.
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Stumbled upon your blog and I’m glad I did. I love finding fellow video evangelist. I’m sure your post helped more than one or two people. I’ll be coming back to see more of your WP tips. Thank you.
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