A recent upgrade to WordPress introduced oEmbed, a new and easier way to embed video and some other media in your blog post.Whereas before, You needed to either copy the raw HTML embed code and paste it in the WordPress HTML editor, or activate Viper’s Video Quicktags plugin, you can now simply copy and paste the URL of the video you wish to embed.
It only works for services that support oEmbed, but the number of those services is growing. Today, the following services will allow you to use the oEmbed method of embedding a video:
- YouTube
- Vimeo
- DailyMotion
- blip.tv
- Flickr (both videos and images)
- Viddler
- Hulu
- Qik
- Revision3
- Scribd
- Photobucket
- PollDaddy
- Google Video
- WordPress.tv (only VideoPress-type videos for the time being)
To embed media using one of these services, the tutorial is simple:
- Copy the URL of the video/image/audio i.e.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFsCFUCzwf0
- Paste it into your WordPress editor.
- That’s it!
Can we still embed video (from other sources) by pasting in HTML? Trying it with the embed code from the UL streaming server, but WordPress seems to be stripping out the code.
I tested it with YouTube code as a normal blog admin a couple of weeks ago and it was fine. Paste the code and then publish. Don’t go back to the visual editor. Does YouTube code work for you?
Thanks Joss – no; it doesn’t seem to accept YouTube embed code either. Code disappears from the HTML editor view immediately on pressing ‘Update’.
Hi Paul,
I was having issues as well with the Media Server following an update to the version of WordPress, WP would strip out the html and nothing worked. Alex did a change, I’m not sure if it was global or just for me. Just checked and it’s still working, I was able to embed a video ok: http://mdarch.dev.lincoln.ac.uk/2010/08/23/test-video-embed/
May be best to send Alex a quick email and ask what change he did to allow me to post successfully.