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Video

Here is a simple video embedded into this WordPress page from You Tube.

The new – really easy way – WordPress 2.9 and above

You just type the plain text url, as below http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2e745SZZlA and you get this…

If you want the video in a widget

Then see http://www.studiopress.com/wordpress-tips/auto-embed-video-in-a-wordpress-text-widget.htm

The old way – pre-WordPress 2.9

[aembed:”http://www.youtube.com/v/y2e745SZZlA&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_GB&feature=player_embedded&fs=1″ 400 340] The “code” needed to do this was [ aembed: "http://www.youtube.com/v/y2e745SZZlA &color1=0xb1b1b1 &color2=0xd0d0d0 &hl=en_GB &feature=player_embedded &fs=1" 400 340 ] The first part inside the square brackets says “use the autoembed plugin” The url is the link to the video on You Tube and included parameters to set the colours and language 400 is the width in pixels 350 is the height You’re not limited to only including one of these per page… and you can put links into posts as well.

Published: July 26, 2010 | Last updated: February 4, 2015

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