Comments on: How To Embed Videos Into WordPress Without Plugins

By: Richard Bui

Richard Bui — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:01:57 +0000

If you don’t have a post or page set as the homepage, then things should be fine as in step 2, you’re opening your index.php file and making the edits there. But yes, you’ll probably have to add DIVs and style it to make it sure it wraps correctly. Don’t forget to add display: block to that DIV so that the video is always on it’s own line.

Let me know if you need further help!

Thanks BTW!

By: Anne

Anne — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:34:00 +0000

I could inset the code provided next to youtube videos into my blog post (or page) easily using the HTML field editing option. But I don’t have the post or page set as home page in WP settings so I had a thought to work around it and experimented with fitting it among the index php code lines in that file manually. At first it moved all my text under the video. Now I used one div with float:left style and it’s almost perfect. This page provides more php ideas for me, it’s Friday evening here, I am kind of into this lately. Ta.

Nice b/w shots slides in the “What is love?” category but color as well. Take care…

By: Richard Bui

Richard Bui — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:41:13 +0000

Kai, I’m glad it worked! Yes, the stupid “smart quotes” thing used to give me problems all the time in the beginning.

By: Richard Bui

Richard Bui — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:40:19 +0000

Anne, I'm glad the code worked out for you! What's the problem with adding videos to the front page? Yes, I do photography also. You can see more at my photography site here.

By: Anne

Anne — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:29:02 +0000

Hallo, thanks you for this “video embedding tutorial”, it helped me. I managed to add videos to my blog posts and pages fine, but had problem to add e.g. youtube videos onto my home page. Your code works for me now, I am still tuning CSS for the exact layout I will use. Thank you! I see you do photography too, as per your avatar.

By: kai taylr

kai taylr — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:35:20 +0000

Thank you so much, my theme was stopping videos from showing on the main page, after hours of trying (literally a whole day) I found your solution. It works perfect although if you are copying and pasting the code from your page dreamweaver does not recognize the quotation marks due to font(note to others re-write the quotations). Thanks again

Kai

By: Richard Bui

Richard Bui — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:03:04 +0000

Originally Posted By hissihissithese code worked with ie7, but failed in firefox & safari. @@~

What's not working specifically? Is no video loading? Is flash installed in the Firefox and Safari browsers? I tested it on my site on a Mac and PC with both FireFox 2/3 and Safari and it works fine. Can you send me a screenshot or a link to the site that's not working?

By: hissihissi

hissihissi — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:50:42 +0000

these code worked with ie7, but failed in firefox & safari. @@~