Writing a blog post shouldn’t be all texts. Sometimes you want to add some spices to the article by adding some related images or videos. With WordPress, that can easily be done.
Today I’m going to teach you how to embed Youtube videos on your WordPress site. For advanced users, this is something you already know. For beginners, you might get shocked knowing how easy it is to embed Youtube videos on your website. All you need to do are:
1. Copy the link of the video.
2. Paste the video link on the post editor. Here’s an example for a video from Piano Guys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO7ySn-Swwc
3. Click the Preview button if you want to preview it first, then hit the Publish button once you have done finish writing the article.
Wow. That’s so easy! WordPress have a make the process easy. Before this, you need to copy the long iframe code and now a link is only what you need.
Here’s what you’ll get after pasting the video URL inside your post editor. Enjoy!
If you want to use the video as featured image, you can read my article on Automatically Add Video Thumbnail in WordPress.
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