WordPress Tutorials

Simply embed YouTube videos into your WordPress website

It is so easy to “embed” videos into your WordPress site.

How to embed a YouTube clip into any post or page:-

1. Play then pause any YouTube clip
2. Click the “Share” icon below the video
3. Copy the share code URL that appears
   e.g. https://youtu.be/9cvb0
4. Paste into the content area of any page/post
5. Make sure the URL is on its own line and not hyperlinked (clickable)
6. Any problems,  paste the link as plain text (see earlier)
7. WordPress automatically turns the URL into a YouTube embed, and show you a live preview in the visual editor
8. Publish or Update then view the page/post on the actual site

In WordPress, you can write either pages and posts…

Pages

• For permanent, static content – “timeless”
• Stick to convention and use short page titles – ideally one-word: “About”, “Services”, “Contact”
• Avoid gimmicky page titles e.g. “What we do”, “Who we are”, etc
• You can assign parent pages but not categories.

Posts

• For articles, news and topical content – “timely”
• Usually longer titles – e.g. “Ten ways to improve your website”
• Automatically appear most recent first
• Can be assigned categories and can be grouped together by category.

What is the difference? Which to choose?

WordPress is a free publishing platform that makes it easy for anyone to publish online, and powers millions of websites.

There are two versions of WordPress: the simple-to-use, but limited WordPress.com perfect for blogging hobbyists, and the full version, at WordPress.org, for “proper” websites.

WordPress.com

Limited Control

No custom themes

No custom plugins

Many limits/restrictions

Adverts (or pay for ad-free)

Hosting included

No maintenance needed

Single site only

WordPress.org

Full Control

Use any Themes

Use any Plugins

No limits

Ad free

Needs web hosting

Needs maintenance

Single site or “Multisite”

At wpcourses.co.uk, our WordPress training courses cover full WordPress.org, for building “proper” websites. These also include a blog as part of them too.

See what we cover on our WordPress training courses.

Enjoy a more productive working life and spend longer doing what you love by learning keyboard shortcuts!  Most commands are much faster entered using the keyboard not the mouse… so if you use a computer for much of your working day, these will save you weeks of your life!

To get around the front-end and back-end of a WordPress site as efficiently as possible, it helps to use “tabbed browsing” and “keyboard shortcuts”.

It also helps to have a fast internet browser. The fastest internet browser is Google Chrome, but Mozilla Firefox and Safari for Macs are both good.  If you are still using only Internet Explorer, I strongly recommend you download Google Chrome here.   See the benefits of Chrome here and watch the following videos for outlines of tabbed browsing and keyboard shortcuts.

These videos are useful, if slightly annoying… my apologies – I promise I will not be!

Here is a video about tabbed browsing in Google Chrome:-

Also worth watching is this summary of keyboard shortcuts in Chrome:-