How to Add a YouTube Video to Your Wordpress Blog
Steps to Add A YouTube Video to Your Wordpress Blog
Have you ever wanted to include a YouTube Video on your Wordpress Blog? I’ll explain how easy it is to do. Have you seen some of the great book trailers that have been uploaded to YouTube? We’re going to use one by author Sydney Croft in our explanation of how to add a YouTube Video to your Wordpress post.
Go to YouTube and find the video you want to include in your post.
Highlight the text in the box to the right of the video, where it says embed. Copy the highlighted code.
Go back to the post you are writing in the Wordpress admin panel.
Make sure your tab on the write post page is set to Code
Paste in the code where you want it to appear in your post. Save the post. You’re finished.
If you have any problems with a specific browser & operating system:
1)Go to your admin panel on Wordpress.
2)Click on Users
3)Click on edit by by your user name
4)On the page it brings up, uncheck Use Visual Editor in the upper left corner
5)Click on Update User
Now try adding the video to your blog.
To see another embedded video on a Wordpress blog, I have the trailer to the new Sex in the City movie in my post on WineontheKeyboard.
Here are some links to other book trailers on YouTube to give you an idea of what authors are doing with their book trailers:
Merline Lovelace — Stranded with a Spy (she said she made it with iMovie on her Mac)
Marianne Arkins — Don’t Fence Me In (she has it embedded on her blog)
Deborah Smith’s — A Gentle Rain (some great photos in this one)
Diana Duncan — Lethal Attraction (she has it on the front page of her website)
Warning on Embedding YouTube Videos on Your Wordpress Blog
Heads up…if your content section of your Wordpress theme is too narrow, adding a YouTube video to your Wordpress blog post will break the theme and mess up your page layout.
