Inserting video into your website is easy if your video is already publicly hosted on YouTube or Vimeo. Some types of video displays require the video to be hosted on the WordPress website. To add a YouTube or Vimeo hosted video to your page: While you are on the page you wish to edit, click …
Category Archives: Social
Social Embeds
You can embed social media posts into your WordPress site. Embedding is really intuitive. Just select the Reusable Block for the social property you want to embed. WordPress will prompt you for a URL. Copy the URL that you want to embed, and paste it in when prompted. Twitter Reusable Block Name: Twitter Notes about …
Media: Twitter Embeds
Really cool to read through and find so much awesomeness added to WordPress 3.6 while I was gone. I should take three weeks off more often. — Andrew Nacin (@nacin) April 3, 2013 This post tests WordPress’ Twitter Embeds feature. Note: It doesn’t look like too much has changed with this between Classic WordPress and …
Post Format: Video (YouTube)
WordPress can embed both YouTube and Vimeo videos that are public and “unlisted”. A search for “video” in the Blocks area yields a lot of options. Admittedly, it’s confusing to have so many options to embed a video on your WordPress page. I would ignore the “Common Blocks”. Here is some guidance for the other …
Edge Case: Many Categories
This post has many categories.