How to embed a youtube video into a word press blog
I’ve been attempting to embed a video tutorial for a couple of days but each time I tried the formatting of the blog got broken up. After some research, here is what I discovered.
You do it differently depending upon whether you have a wordpress.com blog or a wordpress.org one.
For Word Press.org (this type) you get the embed code from Youtube of the tutorial you wish to display. You go to Users> Profile on your Word press dashboard. You unclick ‘Use visual editor’ You paste the embed code into your post. After completing any other video embedding go back to Users>Profile and click on ‘Use Visual editor’ again.
You cannot Edit any of these posts later.
For Wordpress.com try this.
Get the URL link to the video. Paste the following into your post.
[ youtube=http://youtube.com/w/?v=_dIya1aJJKA]
Alter to suit the video you want to display.
March 7th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
[...] My You tube video embeds had distorted the format again so I had to re-insert them. To do this I followed my own instructions [...]
March 18th, 2008 at 12:56 am
I rarely use the Visual Editor.
I’m unused to word programmes and feel clumsy when I use them so it’s not a matter of me turning me it off here.
Must be my actual theme that makes the embedded video push out the structure
March 18th, 2008 at 8:22 am
You can use this plugin
http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/smart-youtube-plugin-released
I note as I scrolled down here that my own You Tube video has distorted the format here.