Adding Video to your Blog Posts
June 8th, 2006Embedding youtube videos into wordpress blog posts is much more difficult than I thought it would be. I’ve done some digging around and found a solution so you can upload your travel videos to youtube.com and have them located directly in your posts on wordpress blogs in four simple steps anyone can do!
Step one: Sign up for youtube, and upload the videos you want to share. Copy the embed script by right clicking and selecting copy from the Embed box. Here’s a picture to help you locate more easily.
Step two: Go in to your admin area in wordpress and click on the users link, scroll down to the personal options and uncheck “Use the visual rich editor when writing” option.
Step three: In wordpress begin writing a post as you always would, you will notice the area where you type feels a little different (this is the rich text editor being turned off), paste the embed video script you copied from youtube and paste it where you want it in your post.
Step four: Save, publish and voila you now have your own video right in your post.
Here is an example I have embedded. (Note: this is not my video).
Casey
Hey,
Great post. I have a question - what are the copyright rules (if any) about showing other people’s videos on your blog. Is there any problem with that? Thanks!
Hey Kesav,
I would recommend using all your own videos on your blog to steer clear of the copyright police. However I have been reading the YouTube copyright FAQ and it is relating to the posting of videos on YouTube not the sharing from a website.
In my opinion embedding video would be like using quotes in a paper. You must give credit where credit is due.
This is just my opinion though and in no way is it legal advice.
Casey
Thanks for the post. This is exactly what i’ve been looking for.