IT Tutor

Not long ago the problem of how to embed a youTube video into a WordPress blog involved selecting the right plugin and worrying about theme compatibility not to mentiom backward compatibility on upgrading the core WordPress installation. Now it has been built in so it;s just a question of getting the right URL for the youTube video and then adding it in between square brackets with “youtube=” at the start like this:

I go to a video I want to embed, in this case it’s Jerry Springer live in London.

Copy the URL supplied on the video page just above the embed code

Then click on the “add video” button in the WordPress Post Editor as below

And paste it in.

Voila

This screencast video shows you how you can search for pictures on the internet which you are allowed to republish because they have a creative commons license.