WordPress Complete - Sixth Edition

Adding videos to blog posts

Luckily for us, the process of adding a video to a standard blog post or page has been made as easy as possible. Let's discuss this step by step.

We're going to start by creating a whole new post. The title we can use is, Great Baby Back Ribs Recipe. Creating the post itself is pretty basic. All you need to do is navigate to Posts | Add New. You'll see a screen that we've already covered earlier in this chapter. Let's put some example content in place, and try including a video right away. All we have to do in order to achieve this is copy and paste the URL of the video that we'd like to have included in our content. Just a standard copy-and-paste, and nothing else.

When copying the URL of the video, it's important ...