I was struggling a bit in the morning today to post a YouTube video onto this blog. For security reasons WordPress.com doesn’t let you <embed> objects within your post. That’s understandable and makes sense. So, what would be the workaround to post a video on to your WordPress.com blog? There should be a work around…right?
Sure, there is. Thanks to Matt at WordPress, here is how you could get the video to your WordPress.com blog.
- Locate the URL for your YouTube video (it should be next (on the right side) to the video on the YouTube site itself).
- In your blog post type-in this in the space where you want the video to appear, ““ (without the quotes)
- Replace the URL above with the URL that you’ve just grabbed from the YouTube site.
- Publish your post.
Simple, that’s all you have to do to get the video to your WordPress.com blog. Now, in case if just pasting the thing didn’t work then,
- Change to the HTML mode so that you’ll have access to the post’s HTML.
- In the space where you want the video to appear, type in this, “<code></code>” (again, without the quotes)
- Replace the URL above with the URL that you’ve just grabbed from the YouTube site.
- Publish your post again.
That’s it. You should be able to see the embedded video player on your WordPress.com blog.
Please see my comment on the updated steps for this to work as WordPress seems to eat up a bit of my post. Sorry for any inconvenience.
