How to Embed a YouTube Video in WordPress

Hi all. In this guide, I will cover how to embed youtube video in wordpress on your website. Sometimes you need to embed video snippets on your site, especially when you need a lot of user engagement. After all, video fragments on the site, this is a huge potential for development.
Let's take a detailed look at how to embed a video in a post or page in WordPress. And in the following articles, we will talk about setting up menus, widgets and controlling the number of entries displayed on the site. Well, let's get started.
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Add YouTube Video to WordPress Post or Page
In the beginning, of course, you need to go to YouTube and find the video you need. I have my own gaming channel on YouTube. And of course I will take an example from him)).
1. On the page with the video that I want to add, click on Share.
2. Then in the window that opens, select the item Embed.
3. You will see a window with video material, on the left side you will see the HTML embed code on the site, copy it.
4. Then I open the page or post I need (this article for example) where I want to embed a YouTube video. Now, you need to go to the Text tab.
5. Next, just paste our HTML code in the right place on the page. Below is an image of what it would look like in my post.
8. After inserting the video into the recording, be sure to save the document by clicking on Refresh.
My congratulations, you added a YouTube video to your post. As you can see, there is nothing complicated about this.
To add a video from YouTube - follow the tips
- Tip one - decide in advance on the optimization of the pages on which the video fragments are located. Video usually loads the page.
- Tip two - after pasting, center the video as an image using class= aligncenter.
- Tip #3 – A standard YouTube video has predefined height and width options. The code is presented below.
width="560" height="315"
You can change these parameters so that the video looks organic in your post or on the page.
Conclusion
I told you how to embed a YouTube video in WordPress. I hope this guide will help you to make your site more informative and interesting for users. Good luck to you.
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Great tutorial, great video. I looked, I didn’t think that you were playing)) An excellent link between the site and the channel. And the content is helpful.