How To: Add videos in WordPress without the <embed> tag.

It’s so difficult to add videos from YouTube and other popular video-sharing websites to our blog post. Copying full source code ( written inside the <embed> </embed> tag) of videos into the post, Oh it’s so confusing also boring…

Is it possible to add videos without the <embed> tag?. Yeah, it’s possible. How?.

How To Add videos in WordPress without the <embed> tag.

From WordPress 2.9 there is no need to insert videos with the <embed> tag. You just simply need to drop the video URL in your WordPress blog post. It's so simple. isn’t it?. Yeah, it is. Thanks to the support of oEmbed

For example, I’m going to show you how to add a YouTube video without the <embed> tag. Take a look.

Step 1: Enable Auto-embeds feature

Go to your Media Settings page on the WordPress admin setting section. Make sure, the Auto-embeds feature is enabled. If it is not enabled, please enable it.

Step 2: Copy video URL

now go to YouTube.com and copy the URL of the video, that you want to include in your post.

Step 3: Paste video URL

Paste the URL of the video directly into your blog post and save it.

Now it’s done. Preview it, you can see the video in your post.

What Sites Can I Embed From?

You can use all of these sites:

1. YouTube(only public videos – “unlisted” and “private” videos will not embed)
2. Vimeo
3. DailyMotion
4. blip.tv
5. Flickr (both videos and images)
6. Viddler
7. Hulu
8. Qik
9. Revision3
10. Scribd
11. Photobucket
12. PollDaddy
13. Google Video
14. WordPress.tv (only VideoPress-type videos for the time being)
15. SmugMug
16. FunnyOrDie.com