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How to Embed Video from Youtube to your WordPress site

Aaron Manfull 4427 Views , , , ,

Unable to display content. Adobe Flash is required.While your WordPress site allows you to host video there, I’m a fan of uploading my videos to other hosts and using the embed code to place the videos in WordPress. There are a lot of great options for hosting your video like Schooltube, Youtube and Vimeo. Each have their benefits. This tutorial will show you how to take a video you’ve already uploaded to Youtube and embed it into a WordPress post. While I am not getting into the other sites here, the process is much the same once you find the embed code.

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Aaron Manfull

Aaron is in his 26th year of advising student media. He is currently the Director of Student Media at Francis Howell North High School in St. Charles, Missouri. He is the Journalism Education Association Digital Media Chair and co-Director of Media Now. He is the 2023 JEA Teacher Inspiration Award Winner and is a former Dow Jones News Fund National Journalism Teacher of the Year. He is one of the authors of the textbook "Student Journalism and Media Literacy." You can find him on X and Instagram @manfull. He's a proud father. A transplanted Iowan. And an avid Hawkeye Fan.

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2 thoughts on “How to Embed Video from Youtube to your WordPress site”

  • Chris
    December 30, 2011 at 10:04 am
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    Another option is to go under Settings > Media in your WordPress dashboard. Click on “Auto-embeds” and then set the max width to the max width of your posts.

    Then all you need to do is copy and past the YouTube URL into your post and it will embed the video.

  • Aaron ManfullPost author
    December 30, 2011 at 10:19 am
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    Thanks for the tip, Chris. Just tried it and it’s slick as can be. It’s a great, simple solution that is even easier than what I posted above.

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