It’s super easy to insert videos into your WordPress site.
Simply post the URL to the video into the page or post content area. Make sure that the URL is on its own line and not hyperlinked (clickable when viewing the post).
For example:
Check out this cool video: http://youtu.be/KshLPLDvdWk~ That was a cool video.
WordPress will automatically turn that into a YouTube embed. In case it fails to embed the video there will be a link to the URL. This will work not only with video but also with other content like photos from Flickr etc.
Can you use any URL?
Not by default. For security reasons we only embed URLs matching an internal whitelist:
| Service | Embed Type |
|---|---|
| Animoto | Videos |
| Blip | Videos |
| CollegeHumor | Videos |
| DailyMotion | Videos |
| Flickr | Videos & Images |
| FunnyOrDie.com | Videos |
| Imgur | Images |
| Images | |
| iSnare | Articles |
| Issuu | Documents |
| Meetup.com | Various |
| EmbedArticles | Various |
| Mixcloud | Music |
| Photobucket | Images |
| PollDaddy | Polls & Surveys |
| Scribd | Documents |
| SlideShare | Presentation slideshows |
| SmugMug | Various |
| SoundCloud | Music |
| Spotify | Music |
| TED | Videos |
| Tumblr | Social media |
| Social media | |
| Vimeo | Video |
| Vine | Video |
| WordPress.tv | Videos |
| YouTube | Videos |
Troubleshoot
YouTube link is showing as plan text
Make sure if you’re uploading your video to YouTube you don’t disable embedding as this will result in WordPress not being able to do his embed trick.
admin setting: check the ‘Auto-embeds’ check box in Admin > Settings > Media SubPanel. Leaving the width value for Embeds blank, embeds will default to the max width of your theme (set in the ‘content_width’ in function.php).