May 3, 2007

Add YouTube Videos to Your WordPress Blogs

I've received a number of questions about how to add YouTube videos to your WordPress blogs.

The reason why this is a problem is because when WordPress users try to embed a video, the video does not display properly and the pages that blog visitors see are all messed-up.

How to solve problem:

- Log-on to your WordPress blog.

- Click "Users" in top horizontal bar.

- Go to your user profile and scroll down to bottom of page.

- The box next to "Use the visual editor" is almost definitely checked. So remove the check.

- Save your updated user profile.

- Now create a new post - you may notice that you are no longer using a visual editor but a plain html editor.

- Go to any YouTube video page.

- To the right of video, you'll see a box after the word "Embed". Copy the code in this box.

- Go back to your new post in WordPress and paste the "Embed" code.

- Save and publish your post. Your video will now be visible to your blog visitors.

Actually, to back-up a bit:

Once you paste video code in to your post, you can enter text before and after the video. But what you might want to do is paste the video code and save your post. Then, follow instructions above to go back to your user profile and add a check mark back to the box before "Use the visual editor." You will now be able to edit your posts as you did before - in visual mode.

Hope this helps.

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