How to Easily Embed Videos in WordPress Blog Posts
Last Updated on July 24, 2023
In this post, I go over how to embed videos in WordPress blog posts or pages quick and easy. This step by step guide makes embedding videos in WordPress a breeze. You’ve made an excellent decision in choosing to embed videos on your WordPress website or blog. Videos bring your site to life and videos are a great way to boost user engagement. And we all know that increasing user engagement is a big plus.
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How to Embed Videos in WordPress Blog Posts & Pages
One of the great things about WordPress is that it comes with a fantastic feature called auto-embeds. This feature allows WordPress to automatically get the embed code for the video from any popular video hosting sites such as YouTube, Vimeo, and others. So how do you embed videos in your WordPress blog posts? It’s easy. All you need to do is paste the video URL into the post editor. One thing you want to make sure you do is to ensure the URL is on its own line and not clickable.
One of the many reasons why I love WordPress is if you are using the visual editor, then WordPress will fetch the embed code and display the video right inside the post editor. Once it fetches the embed code you just need to save your post, then click on the preview button. Once you click the preview button, it’ll take you to a preview of your blog post, and you will see your video embedded.
WordPress, at this time, can only auto-embed for a select few white-listed service providers. For other websites, you need to get an embed code and then paste it into your blog posts.
Below, I’ve provided a complete list of the white-listed service providers for auto embeds in WordPress.
Animoto
Blip
Cloudup
CollegeHumor
DailyMotion
Facebook
Flickr
FunnyOrDie.com
Hulu
Imgur
Instagram
Issuu
Kickstarter
Meetup.com
Mixcloud
Photobucket
PollDaddy
Reddit
ReverbNation
Scribd
SlideShare
SmugMug
SoundCloud
Speaker Deck
Spotify
TED
Tumblr
Twitter
VideoPress
Vimeo
Vine
WordPress plugin directory
WordPress.tv
YouTube
Why can’t I upload the videos to my WordPress site?
You can upload videos to your WordPress website or blog, but I do not recommend for you to do so. Videos can take a lot of server resource and if you are on shared hosting this can slow your site down big time.
Let’s just say your video gets a ton of traffic, then there is a pretty big chance your site is likely to crash. And you would be missing out on traffic from YouTube users. You want to make sure you pick a third party site like Youtube, Vimeo, or another one that you will use to upload your videos.
If you’d like to know more regarding this topic, take a look at our article we wrote on why you should never upload a video to WordPress.
Final Thoughts
We hope this article helped you and showed you how to embed videos in WordPress blog posts quick and easy.
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