Embdding a Video, Images or Other Content
Another way to add video or other content into your pages is through
embedding. A popular example of this is embedding a YouTube video into your page.
When you’re embedding a file, there’s no need to upload the file to your
site. You’re basically just creating a link to the file, from within your own
page.
WordPress is able to
automatically embed files from a number of different services.
To embed something into your
Post or Page, simply paste the URL into your content area. The URL needs to be
on its own line and not hyperlinked.
When embedding content in this manner (as
opposed to using the embed shortcode mentioned below), your url will change to
show a preview of that content. For example, when embedding a video from
YouTube, after pasting in the URL to the editor, it will magically change to
show the actual video content, right there in the editor.
If you’d like to specify the
width and height, you can wrap the URL in the [embed] shortcode. Embedding your
link using this shortcode does not require the URL to
be on its own
line. The format for using the shortcode is:
[embed width= “123” height= “456”] url [/embed]
WordPress will automatically embed content from the following sites:
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