My WordPress Tutorial

Archive for February, 2011

In this tutorial you will learn the quick and easy steps necessary to add videos to your WordPress website using the embed codes that are available on most internet web hosting video sites. NOTE: If there is no embed code available on the website were the video is hosted you may want to Embed Videos Using the URL.

1. Locate the video you want
2. Locate the embed tab, button, etc. – This can be located in different places on different video hosting websites
3. Select the options (if available) that work for your website (i.e. size, color, etc.)
4. Copy the embed code by highlighting the code (hold your left mouse button down while moving over the code) and either right click to copy or press ‘Ctrl+C’ on your keyboard to copy
5. Paste the embed code on the desired webpage under the ‘HTML’ tab
6. Be sure to press either ‘Publish’ or ‘Update’: NOTE: you can ‘Preview’ the page before publishing it if you like

For a visual tutorial please see the screenshot below. CLICK THE IMAGE FOR A LARGER VERSION!