People often like to embed videos in blog posts. On multiuser sites like this, though, letting people insert arbitrary HTML code can be a security problem for other logged-in users, and so WordPress strips out embed codes. The alternative, though, is actually easier: simply copy and paste the URL to the video you want onto a line by itself, and WordPress will turn it into an embedded video. For example, if you paste:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/128305/star-trek-vii-generations
then you’ll get this:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/128305/star-trek-vii-generations
This works for links from YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion, blip.tv, Flickr (both videos and images), Viddler, Hulu, Qik, Revision3, Scribd, Photobucket, PollDaddy, Google Video, and WordPress.tv.
The alternative is very handy – I like it. Is there a way to make the embedded videos smaller? When the text is made enough to easily read, the videos take up half the page (on my blog, at least)…
Hey, Adrian. You can control the size of embedding media via options in your blog dashboard. Look under Settings > Media for the “Maximum embed size.” (found via http://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds ).
I hope that helps. Let us know if it doesn’t.