How to put Videos into WordPress Blogs

1) User Profile1) Go into your WordPress Dashboard and look for ‘Users’ click on this and then go to ‘Your Profile’

2) When you are in ‘Your Profile’ you need to tick the first box you see which says “Disable the visual editor when writing”. Click ‘Update Profile’.
Tick for Videos
3) Go to You Tube to get the code for your video. When you have found the video, you need to select ‘Embed Code’ and copy it.
3) You Tube Embed Code

4) Paste the code into your draft post, in the position where you want the video to show.

5) In your draft post you will only see the code, so click ‘Preview’ to check that the Video works.

Check Preview

6) Make sure you ‘untick’ the ‘disable visual editor’ in ‘Your Profile’. Click ‘Update Profile’.

UnTick

7) OK  that’s it! ….you’ve done it. The video will now look like this:

Hope this helps provide your blog with videos. I enjoyed writing this because it was a good excuse to insert a Beatles song into my post. :-)  Happy blogging.

John McNally

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2 Responses to “How to put Videos into WordPress Blogs”

  1. Hi John,

    Your techie blog posts are always so helpful. I will definitely return when I want to insert the new World of Whispers video into my blog post!

    Enjoy the journey.

    Mandy
    .-= Mandy Allen´s last blog ..Does sex equal more hits? =-.
    These posts help me as well Mandy! I keep forgetting how I do things, so now I record it on my blog as a reminder. :-) John

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  2. Hi John,

    You are way ahead of me!!!!! :mrgreen: I have only just mastered inserting the images and editing them! OK I will venture to video soon ;) Just got to work up the courage. :lol:

    See you back here soon! :P

    Jacinta :D
    .-= Jacinta Dean´s last blog ..John Thornhill’s Internet Marketing Master Class Coaching Program Week 6! =-.
    There are also plugins for video Jacinta, but I found the above method easier, and gives more control.
    Good luck with your image editing. Your blog is already lively, so images and video will take it to the top level.
    John

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