How to link to a Youtube video or embed the actual video on your WordPress / Blog site.
OPTION ONE – CREATING A LINK TO THE YOUTUBE VIDEO
- Go to the Youtube video you want to embed
- Choose “Share”
- Copy the http://…. Link in the field
Go to your post where you want the video
- Click Upload/Insert – the small icon above the content field on your post (WordPress). A popup appears.
- Click “From URL” at the top
- Check the button “Audio, Video, or Other File”
- Paste the URL you copied from YouTube (http://…) into the first field
- Type in a Title of the video– this will be your text link.
- Click “insert into Post”
- This will make a “LINK” to the video on Youtube
OPTION TWO – EMBEDDING THE VIDEO ON YOUR PAGE
Go to the Youtube video you want to embed
- Choose “Share”
- Click “Embed”
- Scroll down to choose the size you want
- Copy the entire code <iframe…. Etc
Then on your post,
- Switch to HTML View (top right of the content field)
- Paste the code where you want it.
This embeds the file into the post.
