The Easy Way to Put YouTube Videos On Your WordPress Site or Blog

You want to put videos on your blog, but you don’t know how. You think it’s probably fairly technical, so you leave it on the to-do list for later, because you don’t have the time to learn something technical right now.

Here’s the good news: It’s really very easy to do!

The one thing to remember is to work with the HTML editor in WordPress, not the Visual editor. (I’ve got the Visual editor turned off on my sites because I don’t use it at all, so I won’t be able to show you which is which in the following video. But the tabs to choose which one you’re working with are at the top right of the post/page edit box…way out to the right of where you upload images.)

(If you’re reading this through RSS, click through to the site to see the video.)

P.S. Here’s the plugin I mention in the video: XHTML Video Embed. (Here’s how to install new plugins in WP 2.7.)

Update 1/7/2010: With the release of WordPress 2.9, embedding video is ridiculously easy.

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