WordPress Blogging Tutorials
Adding Media to Posts / Auto-Embedding Video
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Again, I always feel kind of bad when I show video because it's kind of an exciting topic but the way that WordPress handles the video, by default anyway, is well, let's just say it leaves as little bit to be desired, right? So, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to show you how to use Auto-Embeds to get some video into your posts. So what I've done here - I'll just flip over to another tab that I have open here inside my Browser - is I thought it would be kind of fun to through in a YouTube video into our Blog, not just any YouTube video, though, a VTC Turbo Video. Apparently there's a type of, I guess it's an SUV called a VTC, so what the heck. We'll see if we can throw this into our post. Now, what we'll need to do is we'll need to get the URL for the video and that URL is available in two spots. You'll find the URL for the video over on the right-hand side, in YouTube anyway, right here where it says URL, just below the video info there. So you can grab that URL there. That's one spot. Or you can grab it out of your Address bar up at the top of your Browser window. It doesn't really matter, but go ahead and select it and copy it, Command-C or Ctrl-C and then I'll just close out of this tab - we don't need that guy open anymore - back into the Admin area of our WordPress Blog. Let's pop open Posts over on the left-hand side, into Edit. If you're thinking of editing the Welcome To My New Blog post you are bang on the money. Let's head in there. And we're going to do a few things here. First of all, let me expand open my Browser window so we can see what's what here. And, I still have the link there for the CartoonSlideshow. Let's get rid of that. So all you need to do is just select that and hit Delete on your keyboard to toast that CartoonSlideshow link and then, this is so super easy, all I'm going to do is paste, just like that. So, in other words, all I'm doing is I'm taking the link from the YouTube video and, don't forget, this'll work for Google Videos and it'll work for Viddler and a whole pile of other video hosting services, you just take that link, paste it into your post and, as a quick aside, I'm in the Visual Editor, not in the HTML Editor. So, that might seem kind of strange. Hey, we're pasting some code, almost, the URL there is very code-ish, if you will, but it's going into the Visual Editor, right? Alright, let's go and check this out. I'll go and collapse down my Browser window, Update the post over on the right-hand side. There he is. OK, let's go and preview our results. So, as a quick point of interest, the view that I see in the backend here is just all text, sort of like we just had with the CartoonSlideshow, right? You can click on Preview Changes if you want, you can Ctrl- or Command-click on View Site if you want; either way, you'll wind up back into the live side of your Blog and if I scroll down sure enough there's that YouTube video that's being automatically embedded, Auto-Embedded into my post. Let me click on the post Title here so we can just see the post by itself. Now, if you want to go ahead and watch your VTC Turbo video coming off of YouTube go for it. And, I'm sure at this point in the game you'll probably want to pause this video and try embedding some other YouTube videos, try embedding some Google videos and maybe some Viddler videos and all the rest of it. So there you go. There's Auto-Embeds.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | WordPress Blogging |
| Author: | Geoff Blake |
| SKU: | 34118 |
| ISBN: | 1-936334-24-0 |
| Release Date: | 2010-05-11 |
| Duration: | 7 hrs / 98 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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