WEBVTT 00:00.160 --> 00:06.810 In this lesson I want to show you how to add a YouTube video to your blog post or to really any page 00:06.840 --> 00:08.310 on your Wordpress Web site. 00:08.310 --> 00:14.580 This is also another opportunity for me to tell you an easy way to edit posts or pages if you're logged 00:14.580 --> 00:18.860 in to your Wordpress account and you go to the page or the blog article that you would like to edit. 00:18.870 --> 00:20.730 Just go up to this edit post button. 00:20.760 --> 00:22.670 It's going to take you to the Post editor. 00:22.680 --> 00:23.030 Cool. 00:23.040 --> 00:25.620 So now let's learn how to add a YouTube video. 00:25.620 --> 00:32.160 Go to the YouTube video and this is similar if you're wanting to embed a video video or really any other 00:32.160 --> 00:38.970 video platform that has a sharing embed code on YouTube to get the embed code go under the video where 00:38.970 --> 00:45.530 it says share click that but then say embed now gives you a standard embed code. 00:45.540 --> 00:49.140 But I want to show more so that we can see our different options. 00:49.140 --> 00:54.510 First you have your video size if you know a specific size you can click this dropdown menu and then 00:54.570 --> 00:58.290 type in a custom size or you can use one of the preset options. 00:58.320 --> 00:59.190 Let's just try this. 00:59.200 --> 01:01.820 8:53 by 480 to see what it looks like. 01:01.860 --> 01:07.800 Then you have options to show suggested videos at the end of the video you have showing player controls 01:07.800 --> 01:14.070 which are going to be the play button down here the volume making full screen changing the resolution. 01:14.100 --> 01:19.530 I typically like to leave that on for my blog posts videos showed video title on player actions. 01:19.530 --> 01:23.450 So this one I might turn off because it looks just a little bit cleaner. 01:23.460 --> 01:28.830 It takes off this top text right here depending on the title of your video if it looks distracting I 01:28.830 --> 01:30.000 might just take that off. 01:30.030 --> 01:35.340 If you don't check this enable privacy enhanced mode then Google is actually seeing who visits your 01:35.340 --> 01:38.000 web page where this video is embedded. 01:38.010 --> 01:42.390 So I suggest checking it on so that your users have a little bit more privacy. 01:42.390 --> 01:47.730 Cool so once you have all of your settings selected you can go up to this code select it all by pressing 01:47.730 --> 01:49.330 command or control. 01:49.400 --> 01:51.420 If you're on a PC and copying it. 01:51.420 --> 01:57.410 So now if I just go ahead and underneath this wood glue tags just paste this. 01:57.410 --> 01:58.670 This isn't going to do anything. 01:58.680 --> 02:04.370 If I preview changes it's just going to show up as this random text right here. 02:04.380 --> 02:11.940 But what I want to do is go into my text editor and not the visual editor and find where I want to add 02:11.940 --> 02:12.320 this. 02:12.330 --> 02:14.260 So let's just do it at the very bottom. 02:14.310 --> 02:20.330 So I'll just enter twice and then paste this and then if I go back to the visual editor you'll see that. 02:20.340 --> 02:23.010 Now this h m l code shows up as the video. 02:23.040 --> 02:31.540 So if I preview changes go back to this post and refresh our video now appears what happens though is 02:31.540 --> 02:36.520 getting cut off on the right hand side because this is a little bit too large a video embed. 02:36.520 --> 02:40.640 So what we can do is go back here and we can change the video size. 02:40.720 --> 02:44.540 So say we want to try this one 640 by 360. 02:44.620 --> 02:51.670 We can either re copy this whole line of text and paste it or we can go into the text editor and change 02:51.670 --> 02:58.300 the width and height ourselves from the width to 640 and the height to 360. 02:58.300 --> 03:03.940 Now if we preview changes refresh looks like we have to refresh for some reason. 03:03.940 --> 03:06.950 Now we have our video embed and it looks solid. 03:07.060 --> 03:12.030 And if we click this it will start playing our video right on our blog posts. 03:12.190 --> 03:17.020 So now with this article I would want to add more text so that the layout doesn't look as funky with 03:17.020 --> 03:19.420 the image right up against the video. 03:19.420 --> 03:22.810 One thing we could do is just simply adding some spaces. 03:22.840 --> 03:25.420 Typically though I'd be adding a lot more text to this. 03:25.420 --> 03:30.670 I want to make sure that I have at least 300 words and all of my articles if not even more. 03:30.700 --> 03:35.470 Because this will increase the value for the visitor but also it will increase the chance that search 03:35.500 --> 03:39.950 engines will see our posts and point people to this post in the search results. 03:39.970 --> 03:44.290 So that's how you add a YouTube video to your Wordpress blog article or pages.