How To Place YouTube Videos on WordPress Blogs
ADVERTISEMENTSPlacing videos from YouTube, Google Video, Metacafe, etc on a blog post can be hard at times. I have been asked a few times on how to add YouTube Videos on WordPress Blogs by some readers, so I would like to mention some WordPress plugins that will make it easier for you to add videos to your blog post.
Viper’s Video Quicktags is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to easily insert videos from YouTube, , IFILM, Metacafe, and by just clicking one of the buttons that the plugin adds to the write screen and then paste the video URL into the prompt box. You can also fully configure how the videos are displayed (width, height, alignment on the page) and much more.
WPvideo is another plugin for WordPress that allow you to insert flash videos in your own post in an easy way.
Using these plugins you can share cool videos with your readers 
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Posted on May 20th, 2007 | Category: WordPress Plugins |
Online Technology
May 20, 2007 at 10:46 pm
Thanks a lot John. I was looking for it.
Roberta
May 20, 2007 at 11:57 pm
I just add the video with the youtube code and center align it…..I didn’t know you needed a plugin for that.
Roberta
May 20, 2007 at 11:59 pm
I’m sorry, not that I was trying to be a snark about it, I just didn’t see the need to go through the trouble of putting a plugin in for videos….have people had problems with them displaying incorrectly?
Rhys
May 21, 2007 at 1:41 am
Roberta: Yes, wordpress doesn’t like the default code, which is why plugins are needed. My personal favourite is Youtube Brackets, which is quick and simple.
Robert Irizarry
May 21, 2007 at 1:58 am
I’m curious Roberta - are you using the Visual Editor? When I try to embed video with the Visual Editor on, it breaks the embed code provided by Youtube. I’ve disabled it and experienced zero issues since then but a plugin that would let me avoid this would certainly be welcome.
Roberta
May 21, 2007 at 4:10 am
Robert: No, I don’t use the Visual Editor. I just copy and paste the code in from either Google or YouTube and center align the video and it doesn’t seem to give me any issue. What I was curious about, too, is how this plugin would make it easier, when it’s already just a simple copy/paste? Again, I’m not trying to be a pain, but I just wanna know
Grace
May 21, 2007 at 4:30 am
This is very useful! Thanks for sharing!
Dan and Jennfer
May 21, 2007 at 7:15 am
Since our Dating & Relationship advice column blog has become largely a video blog lately, this has been an important issue for us.
Wordpress is a really awesome blog / content management platform, the best and most flexible / powerful one by a long shot. But the included WYSIWYG editor is seriously lacking. It’s not in what it can’t do, but what it DOES do without telling you or asking your permission.
It silently strips out (deletes) video embed code you insert, inline styles, and various other things. Pretty cool, huh?
So. We found a better editor - WYSYIWYG Pro - which installs as a regular wordpress plugin. It looks and works just like the editor in TypePad (which is one of the highlights over at TypePad). It has a great “paste from MS Word” feature, but most importantly - it leaves my code MOSTLY alone the way I put it in. Here’s the site: http://www.wysiwygpro.com/index.asp
SO I don’t need special plugins to embed a video or whatever. I just copy the embed code and put it where I’d like to see it.
I’m still waiting for Adobe or someone like that who gets usability to come out with a REALLY GOOD blog editor. But in the meantime, WYSIWYG Pro is the best we’ve seen.
Have an awesome day!
Dan
Ravi
May 21, 2007 at 8:58 am
You can check out this link too
http://blogmines.com/blog/2006.....og-post-2/
Clara
May 21, 2007 at 10:41 am
Thanks for introducing the WPvideo plugin! I was wondering if there was one such plugin available.
Vince Cordic
May 21, 2007 at 10:46 am
I just recently started using Vipers’ Video Quicktags and it’s been working good so far. I also use the Video Blogger plugin on occasion.
BTW, you can embed videos into WP without a plugin, you just have to turn the rich editor off.
Dave Forde
May 21, 2007 at 11:11 am
Any idea on how to add video to the sidebar, without a widget?
Pallab
May 21, 2007 at 11:29 am
I have used youtube and veoh videos in my blog. I just put the code that these websites provide. Never had a problem with it.
But, yeah I dont use the rich text editor. It sucks.
And to center the video put it in div align=”center” tag.
I like to use as few plugins as possible. Over time these plugins can add up and affect the performance. Thats why I dont use the feedburner feed plugin but I have manually replaced the feed url in header file.
Chee Kui
May 21, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Nice plugin. I was using offline blog editor so I rarely write any entry directly using the wordpress rich text editor.
Madhur Kapoor
May 21, 2007 at 3:45 pm
Viper’s Video quicktags is good . The only problem is that you have to disable the Rich Text Editor before using it .
Roberta
May 21, 2007 at 4:29 pm
The only plugins I’ve found useful to date, are the comment-related ones. If I had any video-related issues, though, I’d be happy to try this one…. thanks for the info on the plugin, just the same.
Nirmal
May 21, 2007 at 6:41 pm
These plugins are useful when your blog has quite a number of Videos, otherwise I just disable my rich text editor and save directly from the code section without going to the preview.
BTW I have not tried the plugins
tech blog
May 21, 2007 at 7:42 pm
the flash one sounds interesting, ive been wondering if i could integrate flash into my posts.
Robert Irizarry
May 21, 2007 at 7:53 pm
Roberta - It sounds like these are most useful for those using the Visual Editor. In order to use the normal embed code, I have to disable the Visual Editor. Otherwise, the code is corrupted.
Roberta
May 21, 2007 at 8:12 pm
Thanks for that info, Robert, I didn’t know that
listikal
May 21, 2007 at 11:36 pm
I’m another one of those just disabling the Rich Text Editor and embedding the code right onto the site, which is very useful.
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May 22, 2007 at 8:52 am
Well ..it sounds like adding youtube videos in blogger is much more easy …:D
Nirmal
May 22, 2007 at 10:38 am
Latest technology news,
You are right, adding videos in blogger is more easy than in Wordpress..
DotNetNuke
May 22, 2007 at 10:51 am
Thanks for plugins, i don’t use Wordpress and i have a News articles module (ASP.NET) it supports HTML how can i publish Youtube videos with this mod?
Five point someone
May 22, 2007 at 10:57 am
I wrote something similar to this on how to embed youtube videos in blogger….
http://fivepointsome1.blogspot.....l#comments
I think im going to give you a link for this post john….
Ron
May 23, 2007 at 1:03 am
Thank’s John. I’ve download and used for part of my blog
James
May 25, 2007 at 11:24 am
Great info, something everyone needs.
Kyle Eslick
June 1, 2007 at 6:24 pm
John,
Thanks for posting this! I was getting frustrated trying to get videos to show up on my site.
JP Russel
August 28, 2007 at 11:07 pm
There’s also a great video tutorial about this over on Awakened Learning Center
http://learn.awakenedvoice.com.....wordpress/
ICanEarn
March 20, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Youtube Disabled Embed Plugin - WordPress plugins that Embed Youtube “Embedding disabled by request” Videos.
http://icanearn.com/plugins/yo.....wordpress/
steveking
June 3, 2008 at 12:22 pm
YouTubeRobot.com today announces YouTube Robot 2.0, a tool that enables you to download video from YouTube.com onto your PC, convert it to various formats to watch it when you are on the road on mobile devices like mobile phone, iPod, iPhone, Pocket PC, PSP, or Zune.
YouTube Robot allows you to search for videos using keywords or browse video by category, author, channel, language, tags, etc. When you find something noteworthy, you can preview the video right in YouTube Robot and then download it onto the hard disk drive. The speed, at which you will be downloading, is very high: up to 5 times faster than other software when you download a single file and up to 4 times faster when you download multiple files at a time.
Manual download is not the only option with YouTube Robot. You may as well schedule the download and conversion tasks to be executed automatically, even when you are not around. Downloading is followed by conversion to the format of your choice and uploading videos to a mobile device (if needed). For example, you can plug in iPod, select the video, go to bed, and when you wake up next morning, your iPod will be ready to play new YouTube videos.
Product page: ww w.youtuberobot.com
Direct download link: ww w.youtuberobot.com/download/utuberobot.exe
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jeff
July 11, 2008 at 8:24 am
personally I’d rather have the code in a javascript. This allows you to update embed codes if the provider changes the format or you wish to later change it to be w3c compliant, change the colors, if the video provider someday add an affiliate program, etc. You need this plugin to make the javascript in a post work:
http://www.ooso.net/index.php/inline-js