How to Embed a YouTube Video in WordPress

When you are running a video/membership site you need to add a lot of videos to WordPress. The sad thing is most users don’t really know that WordPress offers a really easy way to embed a video into a website (without having to install a WordPress video plugin). In this post, I am going to show how you can embed a YouTube video in WordPress with just a few easy steps.

How to Embed a YouTube Video in WordPress

1. Go to the YouTube video page and copy the URL from the address bar.

screenshot showing how to copy the video embed URL from YouTube

 

2. Go back to your WordPress admin dashboard and create a new post/page. If you wish to embed the YouTube video into an existing page, edit it instead.

3. Paste the YouTube video URL into the post/page editor.

screenshot showing how to copy and paste a YouTube video URL into the WordPress post/page editor

4. This will trigger the WordPress oEmbed feature which will then embed the actual YouTube video into this post/page.

screenshot showing a preview of the embedded YouTube video in the WordPress post/page editor

5. Publish or update your post/page.

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