Smart YouTube Easily Adds Video to WordPress Posts

WordPress Plugin – Smart YouTube

February 21st, 2009 | Author: Jim Hutchinson

What would you rather watch a video or read a long article? Watching a video can be more informative, entertaining and easier than reading. Putting videos into blogs can be very confusing. Many people! do not know how to get the video into their web page or blog. In this article, I will show you how easy it can be to add a video to your blog.

First though, we should discuss where to get the video you will use. If you create your own, then you are ahead of the game. What if you are camera shy or do not know how to create a video? What if you want to update your blog, but ran out of ideas? In either case, YouTube is your friend.

The idea is to a title=Website Managers YouTube Channel YouTube for a video that is related to the topic of interest. When watching it, there will be two links on the side: one to link directly to the video and one to embed it into your web page or blog.

The most common way to embed the video is to copy the code to embed the video, create a new article or page in WordPress, click the Source button (or HTML depending on which editor you use) and paste the code in. Save your settings and preview the page.

An easier method is to download a WordPress plugin named Smart YouTube.
Smart YouTube is a WordPress YouTube Plugin that allows you to easily insert YouTube videos in your post, comments and in RSS feeds. The main purpose of the plugin is to correctly embed YouTube videos into your blog post. The full video will also be shown in your RSS feed.

Here is an example using a video by John Samarin, Author and Creator of the YBSformula.

Once you activate the plugin and setup the basic options, adding videos is so easy, you may never use the embed code again. Instead, you will get the link, paste it into your page where you want the video to show, change http:// to httpv:// (add a “v” to it) and publish the page. Using this plugin you will not even have to mess with the source code.

You can even delay the auto-start so the video will play automatically after a set time delay that you choose. To activate that option, add a simply add amp;start=10 to the end of the video link. Change 10 to the number of seconds to delay.

Easily embeds YouTube videos into your WordPress blog
Supports latest high quality video protocols (360p and HD quality 720p)
Allows full YouTube customization (colors, border, full screen…)
Supports video deep linking (starting at desired point with amp;start=time parameter)
Works on iPod and iPhone
Provides a sidebar widget for videos
Produces xHTML valid code
Very fast and light, with no extra scripts needed

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Jim Hutchinson

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