WordPress - How to Add a Video to Your Blog.

First, the easiest way to add a Youtube Clip to your WordPress site is with a plugin. You will find several Youtube plugins at the WP repository, but over the years of using them I always seem to go back to the same one… Smart Youtube.

Login to your WordPress administration

Navigate to the plugins Area and Choose Add New.

Type Smart Youtube into the search box and click on search

Install the Smart Youtube plugin.

Configuring the plugin is stupid-simple.

Go to the Settings > Smart Youtube option screen

Adjust any settings you may want to change (I only change the dimensions and colors to match my site)

I set autoplay to OFF

I Clear the checkbox for video link in rss feed (makes people click to me versus straight to youtube)

ADD a check to the box for video preview image in rss feed.

Save…

This is where it gets really easy and the main reason I have always come back to this plugin. As you write your post or page, you just copy the URL of the Youtube video… paste it into your post, and add the letters below to the url.

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