Embed a video from YouTube on Wordpress

As mentioned in the previous article on how to "Embed a Video from YouTube" you can post video content on your site or blog. If you are a user of wordpress things have gotten a little easier.

The embed code can seem a little confusing to those of us who don't understand how websites work. Wordpress has tweaked their back end to recognize a video from YouTube with just a simple line of code. If you use Wordpress and are running the most up to date version - 2.2 - then you will be able easily post videos on your blog. If you do not have the most up to date version you can download it here.

Once you have found the video you want to blog simply copy the URL from either your browsers address bar or from the URL provided in Google Video 'Email Blog Post to Myspace' info section.

Once you have the URL code copied open up your blog and begin to create a post. Anyone who has posted a video on their blog has run into problems when you submit your posting. I know I have. Most of the time the video does not show and when you edit the posting all the embed code you entered is gone. Thanks to the great people at Wordpress your code will go from this

<embed style="width:400px; height:326px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-2968298090955842775&hl=en" flashvars=""> </embed>

To this

[googlevideo=http://video.google.com/
videoplay?docid=-2968298090955842775&q=slam+dunk]


Seems simple, huh? Well it is. This simple line of code, when inputted correctly, will save you some time if you are an avid video blogger. Wordpress has stripped the need for all that embed code and has made it easier to blog about your favourite videos.

Below is a screen shot of how this will look in edit mode



Thanks Wordpress