Embed YouTube Videos in WordPress Plugin
This WordPress plugin will make it easy to embed a YouTube video in a WordPress post/page or sidebar widget. You can see a demo of the plugin if you look at the YouTube video under the AdWords logo in the right sidebar.
This plugin has been tested and is working on the latest version of WordPress.
== Description ==
This plugin is designed to help you easly display YouTube videos in your blog. You have the option to show the video in a sidebar widget and in a post/page’s content area.
== Installation ==
- Upload post_video.php to plugin folder.
- Activate from admin panel.
- See Post Video under settings menu.
- Set the default parameters. (You can overide default parameters by changing settings on post/page)
- Create or edit a new post/page. At the end you will see a new section Post Video.
- Put a video link there. Save the post. You will see the video in either homepage or in single post/page or sidebar widget.
The video link must look like: http://www.youtube.com/v/doZkxGXVt2E (on the YouTube page this code can be obtained from the embed box. Your copy and paste should look like the red highlighted link below)
Download YouTube videos in WordPlugin here.
Written by Houston SEO
Nice, but the player won’t show up on my front page, where my post starts, but only when one goes to the separate page where the full post resides: see “Rep Issa”…on my front page. Any way to make it show on the front page as well?
@Nathan – can you share with me this blog’s url?
@Nathan – this plugin was designed for static post/pages. If you want to add a video on your homepage you should be able to do that via a sidebar widget.
@Nathan – check this out, http://wordpress.tv/2009/01/12/adding-a-widget-to-your-sidebar/
When i first installed this plugin it worked great. Now when i switch pages the youtube video stays the same.
Any ideas what causes this problem?
@phil – it should work fine if you load a different video at the bottom of each page/post.
Thats what i mean – i had a different video loaded for each post, but it keeps showing the same one. I have since switched to having the videos load in the post/page rather than in the widget, and it seems to be OK, though its not what i wanted ideally. I also uninstalled and reinstalled the plugin. so for now its working.
Is it possible to add a code onto the template (i.e or something) instead of using the widgets option? editing the template has a better result for me. Thx
Nice, but it does not work for YouTube channels, only for single video’s? Or am I missing a clue?
Hope you don’t take it as a complaint, as I really appreciate everyone who makes plugins and shares them.
@paula – the plugin was designed for single videos only. Perhaps the next version will include channels.
@Ana – you can also embed video in post/page content area. Will that not accomplish what you are looking for?
Hi,
Thanks for code it’s working on my blog.
NEVER MIND – I figured it out – as you said, you need to use the EMBED URL for YouTube, not the normal URL… THANKS – IT WORKS PERFECT!
My tiny MCE was not working with my current theme fter installing this plugin i am again able to install videos in my post