How to Easily Embed Videos in WordPress Blog Posts?Are you ever think of embed videos in your WordPress posts? Videos make your posts engaging and attract users to read your content and bring life to your post.
WordPress make it easy to embed videos from video hosting websites such as Youtube, Vimeo, Twitter, Facebook and many more. In this post we’ll show you how you can easily embed videos in WordPress blog posts.
How to Easily Embed Videos in WordPress Blog Posts?
WordPress has a built-in feature of auto-embeds which enables your site to automatically get the embed code from popular video hosting sites like Vimeo and Youtube etc.
For example- you can copy the Youtube video url of a video that you want to embed. You just need to paste the video url into WordPress editor.
As soon as you will paste the video url, WordPress fetch the video’s embed code and display the Youtube video inside content editor. Now you can save the post & click on preview button to see Youtube video in your blog post.
You can also adjust video settings like width, full-width, alignment and more. Also you can add a caption and preserve the videos aspect ratio for mobile devices.
WordPress only auto-embeds white listed video services. For other video services you need to obtain code and paste it to your blog posts.
Here is some white-listed video services for auto-embed in WordPress:
- Amazon
- Cloudup
- Animoto
- CollegeHumor
- Dailymotion
- Crowdsignal
- Flickr
- Issuu
- Imgur
- Hulu
- Mixcloud
- Kickstarter
- Meetup
- Reverbnation
- Scribd
- Youtube
- SmugMug
- Screencast
- Speaker Deck
- Slideshare
- Someecards
- TED
- Tumblr
- Vimeo
- VideoPress
Outside of this list if you want to embed videos then you need the full HTML code of video. Simply copy HTML code provided by video site & paste it inside custom HTML block in editor.
You can also embed videos to WordPress posts and pages using various plugins like Lazy Load, Youtube Subscribe Bar, Envira Gallery and many others.