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Plugin for Adding Videos to Your WordPress Blog

  • August 11th, 2007

I just came across a WordPress plugin called My Video that makes it really easy to post YouTube, Google Video, Metacafe, and MySpace videos to your WordPress blog. Just go to the My Video download page and download the plugin file to your computer and then upload it to the plugins folder of your WordPress installation. Next, activate the My Video plugin in your WordPress admin section and you’re pretty much done. If you want to change the size of the video, you can go to “Options” in your WordPress admin and easily change the size.

Now you can add any YouTube (or any format mentioned above) video to your blog! Just write a post as you normally would, and then add the following line of code where you want the YouTube video to show up:

[ youtube ] video reference [ /youtube ]

(without the spaces)

The video reference is the string of letters and numbers which YouTube assigns to each video and can be found in the URL of the YouTube page the video appears on as well as in the information box about the video on YouTube’s page (see image below). Have fun!

YouTube Number Example

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