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What would you rather do: Read a long article, or watch a video? Watching a video can be more informative, entertaining and easier than reading. Many people do not know how to get the video into their web page or blog. In this article, I will show you how easy it can be to add a video to your blog.
First though, we should discuss where to get the video you will use. If you create your own, then you are ahead of the game. What if you are camera shy or do not know how to create a video? What if you want to update your blog, but ran out of ideas? In either case, YouTube is your friend.
The idea is to search YouTube for a video that is related to the topic of interest. When watching it, there will be two links on the side: one to link directly to the video and one to embed it into your web page or blog.
The most common way to embed the video is to copy the code to embed the video, create a new article or page in WordPress, click the Source button (or HTML depending on which editor you use) and paste the code in. Save your settings and preview the page.
An easier method is to download a WordPress plugin named Smart YouTube.
Smart Youtube is a WordPress Youtube Plugin that allows you to easily insert Youtube videos in your post, comments and in RSS feed. The main purpose of the plugin is to correctly embed youtube videos into your blog post. The video will be shown in full in your RSS feed as well.
Once you activate the plugin and setup the basic options, adding videos is so easy, you may never use the embed code again. Instead, you will get the link, paste it into your page where you want the video to show, change http:// to httpv:// (add a “v” to it) and publish the page. Using this plugin you will not even have to mess with the source code.
Oh yeah, you can even delay the auto-start so the video will play automatically after a set time delay that you choose. To activate that option, add a simply add &start=10 to the end of the video link. Change 10 to the number of seconds to delay.
- Easily embeds YouTube videos into your WordPress blog
- Supports latest high quality video protocols (360p and HD quality 720p)
- Allows full YouTube customization (colors, border, full screen…)
- Supports video deep linking (starting at desired point with &start=time parameter)
- Works on iPod and iPhone
- Provides a sidebar widget for videos
- Produces xHTML valid code
- Very fast and light, with no extra scripts needed
Install Smart YouTube and start adding videos to your posts today.
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4 Responses to “Smart YouTube Makes Adding Videos Easy”
I’ve recently been a passionate lover of your website for a while and not really provided something back, I hope to change that in the future with an increase of debate.Thanks for another great addition on the web site.
Fine work, I need to hear more from you.Are you working in a Group that you can make such a good Blog?
Thanks for the feedback. There was no link to your site so I searched Google and found another comment by you that is linked to your site and added it to your comment.
I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future. Feel free to check out my blog on the 36 Best WordPress plugins for 2009.