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How do you add a You Tube video to your blog?
By Mike | July 23, 2007
Going to start adding in the questions that came fom the call I did on July 5th. This will be the first of a series. You can listen to the whole 1-3/4 hour call at The Call Replay.
Todays question is - How do I add You Tube to my blog?
Adding a video can be quite easy to do for your blog. You can get quite a few plugins that will help you to make this easier. My favorite is Viper’s Video Quicktags.
Getting a plugin though it may make it easier is not necessary (at least for You Tube).
When you find a video at You Tube there are 2 links you can use. See the image below.
You will see that there is one called url and one called embed.
You can just copy and paste the embed url into your post and you will have a video in your post.
One caveat - If you use the visual editor to write your posts you will want to click on the code link before you add the embed code.
Now if you are using things other than You Tube then I would recommend getting a plugin as they can add the code for you to embed a variety of videos including your own.
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August 6th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
Hi, I have a question which may be easily catagorized as a “newbie” question but after days of scouring the net I have yet to find an answer.
If I use Viper Video Quicktags, host my own videos and Wordpress blog do I need any other plug ins to facilitate the playing of videos from Wordpress? Also, how do I ‘write” or post the video’s to the blog?
The videos are in .flv format.
I spent countless hours trying to do this and all I could get to load was the black player on the blog. No video content.
I would really appreciate any information you can provide and I am sure I am not the first (or last) person who needs this info
Thanks again,
Larua