You Tube Embedding

Embed them from youtube? Post the url for one.

Yes I figured out how to embed by just pasting the irk but the issue is that the video is too large in siE. I have a sidebar and half of the video is playing behind it so you can’t see the whole screen. I need to shrink the dimensions so they fit in the regular blog post space.

Right click on the youtube video. Get embed code. You can put that in the text part of the editor and adjust size there or just go to visual and size it with the handles. It will only size proportionally and that is what you want to do.

Install Jetpack and use the embeds

got it, thank you!!

I don’t think you have to install Jetpack….

As others have said, get the embed code of the YouTube video. Here is an example of one at 560×315

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/O4THpbKZ0Zg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Let’s say you want it to be only 400 wide…. Here is how I fix the YouTube embed coding to embed videos with a width of 400px into my WP posts using object:

560 divided by 400 = 1.4
315 divided by 1.4 = 225

<table id="video"><tr><td>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4THpbKZ0Zg" title="YouTube: How To Embed A YouTube Video In WordPress">YouTube: How To Embed A YouTube Video In WordPress</a>
<object data="https://www.youtube.com/embed/O4THpbKZ0Zg" title="How To Embed A YouTube Video In WordPress"  width="400" height="225" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true">
<param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube.com/embed/O4THpbKZ0Zg" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><br />Slow load or no load? Please go directly to the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4THpbKZ0Zg"  title="YouTube: How To Embed A YouTube Video In WordPress">video</a></object>
</td></tr></table>

You don’t have to house the video in a table. I just like to so that I can include the link, just in case….