How to embed a YouTube / Vimeo / Instagram / Twitter / etc on a WordPress page

Owned by Aaliyah Symlar
Last updated: Mar 04, 2020
1 min read

Paste the YouTube or Vimeo URL on a new page line.

When the page is published the video player will automatically display where the URL was placed. View the embedded video outside of WordPress page edit.

Example video embedded using this method

 

 

Use this rich media embedding method for the following services:

 

  • YouTube (only public videos – “unlisted” and “private” videos will not embed)

  • Vimeo

  • DailyMotion

  • blip.tv

  • Flickr (both videos and images)

  • Viddler

  • Hulu

  • Qik

  • Revision3

  • Scribd

  • Photobucket

  • PollDaddy

  • Google Video

  • WordPress.tv (VideoPress-type videos only)

  • SmugMug

  • FunnyOrDie.com

  • Twitter

  • Facebook

  • Instagram

  • Soundcloud

View the full list on the WordPress website.