There are two ways for you to embed a YouTube video in one of your blog posts.

Embedded URL Method -- Any embedded video method

  1. Goto YouTube and find the video you want to embed
  2. Locate the ‘embed’ link on the right side of the YouTube video page and copy it
  3. With your post open switch to HTML mode by clicking the HTML link in the top right of the post editor
  4. Paste the link copied in Step 2 to the location in the post where you want the video placed
  5. Save or publish the post and the video should be embedded

Smart YouTube plugin Method (better method) -- YouTube videos only

  1. Go to the Plugins page (‘Plugins‘ link on the far right menu of your dashboard) and activate the Smart YouTube plugin by locating the plugin in the list and clicking ‘activate‘.
  2. When you want to display YouTube video in your post, paste the video link (text only and don’t make it a clickable link) with httpv:// (notice the ‘v’). Example video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QujA8YYgTWU -- now you would just add a ‘v’ after the http.
  3. Once the link is insert and the ‘v’ added you can apply formatting to the link like ‘center’ to center the video in a post.

(there is an options page under the Setting where you can change some of functionality of this plugin -- default settings should work well for most blogs)

Optionals for Smart YouTube

  • to display a high quality video then just use httpvh:// instead httpv://.
  • to post a HD (DVD quality, 720p) quality video you would use httpvhd:// (’vhd’ for video high definition)
  • To use video deep linking just add &start=time parameter at the end of url. For example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QujA8YYgTWU&start=30 will start the video 30 seconds in.

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