The Easy Guide To Embed Videos in WordPress

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If you are wondering how to embed videos in WordPress, then you have come to the right spot. In this tutorial, we will explain how you can add videos to your WordPress blog posts, pages, and sidebar.

 

How to add Video to WordPress Page or Post

 

The simplest way is to paste the URL of the video into the page or post while editing. The video will automatically get embedded.

 

For example, if you copy a Youtube video URL and paste it into your post, the video will automatically get embedded and you can see the preview right within your editing screen.

 

The Easy Guide To Embed Videos in WordPress - video embed

 

WordPress supports the following sites for its auto-embed feature:

  • YouTube
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • WordPress
  • SoundCloud
  • Spotify
  • Flickr
  • Vimeo
  • Animoto
  • Cloudup
  • CollegeHumor
  • Crowdsignal
  • Dailymotion
  • Funny or die
  • Hulu
  • Imgur
  • Issuu
  • Kickstarter
  • Meetup.com
  • Mixcloud
  • Photobucket
  • Reddit
  • ReverbNation
  • Screencast
  • Scribd
  • Slideshare
  • SmugMug
  • Speaker Deck
  • TED
  • Tumblr
  • VideoPress
  • WordPress.tv

 

Once the video is embedded, you can change the settings right from the editor window.

 

The Easy Guide To Embed Videos in WordPress - video settings

 

 

How to Embed Videos in the Sidebar

 

Embedding a video in the sidebar isn’t much difficult. Follow these steps to add a video to the sidebar:

 

Step 1: Go to Appearance>> Widgets. You need to add the “Text” widget to the sidebar.

 

Step 2: Inside “Text”, put the URL in the content area. WordPress will automatically embed the video if the URL is from any of the sites mentioned above. You can immediately see the preview.

 

The Easy Guide To Embed Videos in WordPress - sidebar

 

Step 3: Click on “Save”.

How to Embed Videos using Custom HTML Block

 

With the arrival of Gutenberg, comes the Custom HTML block in the WordPress editor.

 

If you have the HTML code for embedding the video, then you can embed the video using a Custom HTML block.

 

Just put the HTML code in the HTML field.

 

The Easy Guide To Embed Videos in WordPress - Custom HTML Screen

 

You can see the Preview right from the “Preview” tab.

 

The Easy Guide To Embed Videos in WordPress - Custom HTML Preview

 

So this is how you can embed video into your WordPress blog post, page and sidebar. We hope you can now confidently add videos to your posts to make them richer. Hope this tutorial helped. See you in the comments.

 

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