Author: art rogers
Pastoral Blogging: Easily Embed You Tube
Monday, February 18th, 2008 @ 11:32 am
WordPress blogs have struggled to get along with embedded You Tube videos, which have become a staple of blogging. For whatever reasons, they would only work if you embedded the code and published the post immediately. If you ever needed to come back and edit the post, the video would drop.
This was, obviously, a major problem for those of us, like myself, who like to write our posts at convenient times and set them to “drop” for a time much later on.
Last week, the WordPress news blog posted a link to a new and useful plugin that allows WordPress users to easily embed a You Tube video. The plugin’s name is embedify, and you can check out it’s download page here.
After downloading, install the plugin to your plugin folder and activate it.
After that, all you need to do is to put the web address of the video’s You Tube page in the post where you want the video embedded. You can even do this in the visual editor, and don’t have to go to the code page.
You can set it to drop for a later time, as well.
For WordPress users, the process just got very easy.
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February 18th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Viper’s Video QuickTags is an excellent plugin as well, and works with many video sharing sites. You might want to give it a look, too.
February 18th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Steve,
Thanks! Good tip.
February 19th, 2008 at 4:13 am
“Embedify”? Somebody over in the development department has been watching Frank Caliendo. That’s a Bush word.