How to Add Video to a Blog

This is a beginner’s lesson on adding a video to your blog. For this explanation, I’m using Wordpress (version 2.8.4) for my blog, and am going to add a video I found on YouTube.

 It’s actually quite easy.

Start with two browser windows or tabs open, one where you’ve logged in to your blog to write a post, and the other one on the page for the video you want.

1. On YouTube, look to the right of the video and you’ll see two little boxes of code. All you need to do is highlight the contents of the box for “Embed” and copy it.

2. Switch over to your blog where you’re writing a post. In Wordpress, first of all switch from using the Visual editor to using the HTML editor. Place your cursor to wherever you want to Embed (insert) the video, and simply paste in the code.

Publish, and that’s it!

If you have any difficulties, see my additional notes below the video – after you’ve watched it, of course

This video is perfect for cat lovers and music lovers everywhere!

Le Duo des Chats, sung by Les Petits Chanteurs a la Croix de Bois:

To be honest, I have lately encountered some trouble embedding videos, and I don’t know if it’s glitches in Wordpress or what. If you have problems, start over and make sure you:

1. Log in to Wordpress as somebody with Admin rights. It should not be necessary, but it helped me out a lot.

2. Start a simple blog post using the HTML editor, not the Visual one. I tried over and over with the Visual editor and it simply failed to include my video embed code, no matter what I did. You can go back and edit and update your blog post later, after you’ve got the video in place.

3. I also had trouble previewing the blog post – I simply had to Publish it and then go back and edit the post. (I tried both firefox and IE 8, but it doesn’t appear to be a browser issue.)