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How To Add YouTube Video To Your WordPress Website
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How To Add YouTube Video To Your WordPress Website
Directions: How To Add YouTube Video To Your WordPress Website
- Login to to WordPress by click login or adding /wp-admin to your URL
- Click Posts and then add new (or edit an existing post or page)
- Paste the YouTube URL on its own line and WordPress will automatically add in the code for you
- Thats it!
- Publish your WordPress post or Preview it to see the video
- Let us know if it works!
Directions: How To Add YouTube Video To Your WordPress Sidebar or Footer
- Login to to WordPress by click login or adding /wp-admin to your URL
- Click Appearance and then widgets
- Please not that all themes are different and some may or may not support footer widgets or even sidebar widgets.
- Goto the Youtube video that you want to show on your WordPress sidebar.
- Click Share under the video
- Click Embed and copy the code
- Paste the YouTube embed code into a TEXT widget on your WordPress sidebar or footer
- Save the widget
- Thats it!
- Goto the front of your WordPress site and refresh your browser to see the video.
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