Comments on: Posting Youtube Videos to WordPress

By: Oscar Gonzalez

Oscar Gonzalez — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 05:52:51 +0000

In reply to Eric Pangburn. Eric, thanks for the comments! Glad you enjoyed it. I'll put it on my list and do an SEO one for sure. That's a very hot topic and people are very interested in it.

By: Oscar Gonzalez

Oscar Gonzalez — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 05:51:57 +0000

In reply to Cliff. Thank you Cliff! If there's anything that you'd like to know just let me know. Gonna be doing a whole bunch of these.

By: Eric Pangburn

Eric Pangburn — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 05:25:27 +0000

Hey Oscar,

Very nice video, and I enjoyed checking it out. It felt like I was being trained or just job shadowing you while you were at work. It was great though, and very easy to follow!

How about an video of adding some SEO, SEO plugin, or a SEO plugin review that you use or suggest to use.

Thanks again for sharing this video!

Eric

By: Cliff

Cliff — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 01:00:32 +0000

Very nice presentation Oscar. I like the idea of the fly on the wall tutorial. It’s always nice to look over somebody’s shoulder. Especially when they know what they’re doing!

By: Oscar Gonzalez

Oscar Gonzalez — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:41:31 +0000

In reply to john philpin. Mainly because the embed code comes with a defined size. Also it isn't responsive. Also iframes and embed codes aren't as simple as a plain link, not to mention the time it takes to get the embed code especially if you want to paste the video in more than one place like a post, page or a sidebar.

By: john philpin

john philpin — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:28:06 +0000

why not just copy the embed code on your tube and paste into the post ?

By: Jeff Hester

Jeff Hester — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:26:19 +0000

Nice little tutorial, Oscar! I would suggest adding a few words in the body of the post to better describe what you cover in the video, and maybe even links to OCWP and FitVids.

Note that you do not need to use embed code to insert YouTube videos into a WordPress post. In fact, you can just past a link to the video or image from a number of sites and WordPress will convert it for you. Here’s a full list: http://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds#Okay.2C_So_What_Sites_Can_I_Embed_From.3F

Also, there’s an alternate plug-in I’ve used called Responsive Video Light: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/responsive-video-light/

This works with YouTube and Vimeo, and you can see a good example here at SoCal Hiker:
https://socalhiker.net/hiking-with-trekking-poles/