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Using YouTube with WordPress

Using YouTube with WordPress

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Using YouTube with WordPress

- Now, Rich, we just showed the ability to embed a file of your own in your WordPress site, but that doesn't mean that you can't leverage other existing video sharing sites out there and place that content into your WordPress site as well. - Yeah, one of the most popular ones is going to be YouTube, because a lot of folks already have content on YouTube and it's pretty easy to do this. I'll show you two different ways to put YouTube into a post. Now, first up, you're going to want to make sure that you have access to the video that you want to post. If it's a video that you've already posted, you probably do. And you can decide if this is one of your videos or if it's just some other video that you're going to grab. It doesn't really matter. And one of the easiest things that I suggest is just copy the video URL. Now, the reason why I say this is that a lot of times, when you make a new post, your service is likely going to be smart enough to just take that URL. - And parse it and…

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