Post YouTube Videos Into Your Wordpress Blog

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If you have a Wordpress blog, like this one, you may encounter a slight problem when adding YouTube videos to your posts.

You might already know that you should paste the embed code from your YouTube video into the code section when creating a post. However, if you then return to the visual editor the code becomes garbled and the video doesn’t display.

How do you do this without installing yet another plugin? Here’s what you need to do:

Step 1 - Write and format your post as usual bearing in mind where you want to place the video. Hit Save.

Step 2 - Turn off the visual editor: In your blog’s admin area, click on “Users” followed by “Your Profile”. You should see the following:

You need to uncheck the box next to “use the visual editor when writing” as shown above, then click “Update Profile”.

Step 3 - Paste the YouTube embed code into your post. When you return to edit your post, instead of the option of either visual or code views you will see a window like this:

Simply paste the YouTube embed code into the appropriate position of your post as shown above and hit publish for your post to go live.

Step 4 - Switch the visual editor back on

Please be aware that if you return to edit this post at any stage, you will need to turn off the visual editor before doing so or the code will become garbled once again and you will need to re-enter your YouTube embed code.

An alternative method is to write and format your post as normal then at the very end, switch to code view, paste your embed code in and hit publish without returning to the visual editor. Again bearing in mind if you wish to return to edit this post at a later date you will need to turn off the visual editor before doing so.

Let me know if you think your method is easier or maybe convince me of the merits of installing yet another plugin!

No Hay While The Sun Shines

I got up this morning and was pleasantly surprised when I looked out my window. Bright blue skies, not a cloud to be seen. I was nearly blinded by the sunlight actually! Living in the UK it’s a genuine surprise when the weather is on your side.

So… today I’m going to push my laptop to one side & head out. Probably hook up with my sister, go for a drive then settle down at one of our favourite haunts and catch up with the latest gossip over an oversized cappucino.

There was a time when my reclusive self would plough on through with the task at hand, yet feel little pangs of guilt for not heading outside. Now I believe you’ve really got to make the most of days like these. Especially since we only catch a handful here in England. It’s still cold mind. Fresh actually… just the way I like it. Perfect!

I hope the weather’s good where you are. I hope you’re not stuck in an office somewhere daydreaming about making millions online! “Not at all John, just enough to take me out of the office!” Well, keep working hard at this Internet Marketing thing, taking massive action and there’s no reason why you can’t achieve your dreams. You will do it.

One step at a time though right? Right now, my “sun-swathed” caffeine hit is beckoning…

I hope you have a great day!

JohnSzram.com Facelift

I’ve been meaning to redesign my blog for a while now and finally I got round to it! I have been tinkering in the background for a couple of days and I must say I’m really happy with the way it looks now.

I was finding it increasingly difficult to find room to include all the things that I wanted to using the two column layout, it was more difficult to navigate than I liked and there was virtually no space to include stuff “above the fold”.

However, I liked my original blog design so I’ve tried to keep it in line with that so hopefully it still retains it’s famililiar feel!

You can now see my recent posts without having to scroll, I have the ability to add more useful widgets and I’ve also got a new navbar across the top which will display links to my pages for easier access.

I’m undecided whether to keep the grey subnavbar which displays my post catagories, I’d like to hear your thoughts on that please.

I feel that the blog is more fit for purpose now but more importantly I hope you like the improvements, I’d really love to hear what you think!