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How to embed videos in WordPress without a plugin

How to embed videos in WordPress without a plugin

From the course: Creative Quick Tips

How to embed videos in WordPress without a plugin

Hi everybody, welcome back to another installment of Creative Quick Tips. This week, I'm going to be showing you the quickest way to embed YouTube videos in a WordPress post. A lot of people come to me and they ask me how to do this and they're using some sort of plugin or something like that. And that can get kind of messy, especially when plugins or WordPress itself is updated. And so, I think this is actually the easiest way, and it's built in directly into WordPress, you don't have to do anything to make this work. So let's take a look at exactly how we do it. So here I am on a YouTube video page, and this is just one of my YouTube videos from my personal YouTube channel. And in order to make this work you're going to do one of two things. You're either going to right-click on the video and chose Copy Video URL, or you can simply just snag the video URL from up here up in the address bar of your browser. Either way it works just fine. Right-clicking, copying the video URL. Or…

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