Posting Online Videos to WP – So Easy it’s Hard

July 17, 2010 – 11:38 am |

I spent several hours trying to figure out how to post a YouTube video to WordPress just to find out that it’s so EASY it actually becomes difficult.  Here’s the basics:

Post just the web address that the video is at in the Visual Editor on WordPress, it does the rest of the work for you!  Check it out:

WP Video Upload Posting Online Videos to WP   So Easy its Hard

It works the same with YouTube, Vimeo and Viddler.  you can check out the post on my personal blog here: tjkimberly Star Wars Video

Or just look at this:

Still not working for you?  Try this:

Sometimes, and we aren’t sure why, but sometimes WordPress requires the HTML embed tags around a link.  Like this:

WP Relief YouTube Embed Posting Online Videos to WP   So Easy its Hard

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