Videos » YouTube

Contents

• Embedding
• Additional Options
• Video
• Comment Embeds

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Embedding

Visit a video page on YouTube. Copy the URL from the address bar.

In your blog’s Dashboard, go to Posts->Add New or Pages->Add New. Click on the Add Video button on the Upload toolbar.

Select the From URL tab. Paste the YouTube video’s URL into the URL field. Then click the Insert into Post button.

The YouTube video shortcode will then be inserted into your post. Publish the post and the video will look like the one below.

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Additional Options

You can specify the width and height of the embedded video by appending &w=...

or &w=...&h=...to the shortcode. It will automatically adapt to your theme’s content length and give you preferred dimensions.

You can obtain a high quality version of the video by appending &fmt=18

You can disable related videos by appending &rel=0

You can turn on the search box by appending &showsearch=1

Examples:

To embed the video with default width and height adapted to your theme:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Ncxw1xfck]

To specify the width and height explicitly:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Ncxw1xfck&w=320&h=240]

To specify the width only:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Ncxw1xfck&w=320]

To play the high quality video:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Ncxw1xfck&fmt=18]

To play the high quality video with specific width and height:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Ncxw1xfck&w=480&h=360&fmt=18]

To hide the related videos from appearing after the video is done:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Ncxw1xfck&rel=0]

To show the Youtube search box:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Ncxw1xfck&showsearch=1]

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Video

Watch the “Embedding YouTube videos into your WordPress.com posts” video from WordPress.tv.

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Comment Embeds

You are able to embed actual YouTube videos into comments that you leave on any WordPress.com blog.

To embed a YouTube video in your comments, simply grab the URL of any YouTube video and paste it directly into your comment:

Once your comment is posted/approved, you will see the YouTube video and be able to watch it directly from there.

Last modified: December 30, 2009