David
27-05-2009, 06:53 PM
You can embed a YouTube video in a post It's really quite simple.
Just use the YouTube button when creating your post (you'll see the button toward the end of the formatting button bar which looks like this: http://www.photographersonline.co.nz/images/buttons/youtube.gif). Pressing the YouTube button on the button bar will insert an opening and closing YouTube "tag" like this:
Place the ID of YouTube video in-between the YouTube tags. The ID is the combination of letters and numbers which identifies the video itself. There are a couple of ways to find the video's ID:
From a link (URL), the ID is combination of letters and numbers after the ?v=
Example highlighted in red:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xQmWPAcaKU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jykn0b6Etk)
If you are already on Youtube, the identity can be found in the address bar and to the right hand side of the screen. Again, what you want is the combination of letters and numbers after the ?v= and sometimes before an & symbol like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkwH8NQLdv4&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkwH8NQLdv4&feature=related)
Post those letters and numbers in-between the inserted YouTube tags in your post, and when you preview or save the post, you'll have an embedded video. Pretty cool!
As an example, if you post the YouTube ID from the link (URL) above in-between the YouTube tags inserted by the toolbar button, you'll end up with this:
1xQmWPAcaKU
Any questions feel free to ask :)
Just use the YouTube button when creating your post (you'll see the button toward the end of the formatting button bar which looks like this: http://www.photographersonline.co.nz/images/buttons/youtube.gif). Pressing the YouTube button on the button bar will insert an opening and closing YouTube "tag" like this:
Place the ID of YouTube video in-between the YouTube tags. The ID is the combination of letters and numbers which identifies the video itself. There are a couple of ways to find the video's ID:
From a link (URL), the ID is combination of letters and numbers after the ?v=
Example highlighted in red:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xQmWPAcaKU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jykn0b6Etk)
If you are already on Youtube, the identity can be found in the address bar and to the right hand side of the screen. Again, what you want is the combination of letters and numbers after the ?v= and sometimes before an & symbol like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkwH8NQLdv4&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkwH8NQLdv4&feature=related)
Post those letters and numbers in-between the inserted YouTube tags in your post, and when you preview or save the post, you'll have an embedded video. Pretty cool!
As an example, if you post the YouTube ID from the link (URL) above in-between the YouTube tags inserted by the toolbar button, you'll end up with this:
1xQmWPAcaKU
Any questions feel free to ask :)