inserting youtube videos into blogs (wordpress)

Here's an easy plugin that will help you insert a video into your posts.

  • Download and unzip this file
  • Upload the easytube.php file into your wordpress plugins folder, normally located
       in /wp-content/plugins/
  • Login to Wordpress Admin and activate the plugin
  • A wordpress player can be embedded in a post using a tag of the following
    form: [youtube:URL] e.g. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb1_h9bguvI]
  • You simply insert that whole line (including the [ ]) into your post where ever you want the video to show up.
  • The URL is the url found on YouTube for a particular video.
  • You can also set the dimensions: [youtube:URL WIDTH HEIGHT]
  • e.g. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb1_h9bguvI 300 200]

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