WGSS 320 Gender & Technology

Oregon State University, School of Language, Culture, and Society

Add movies to Wordpress

Try three methods for adding movies to Pages or Posts

A. URL method
  1. On the page where you located the video, look around for the Sharing and/or Embed button.
    • Copy the URL provided.
  2. On the Wordpress page, Paste the URL after an existing paragraph.
    • Add a new paragraph under the movie and type a short description/title and add the copyright statement. For example: Biography of Marie Curie.© 2013 Bio.True Story.
    • Click Update.
    • View the Page to ensure the movie loads and is properly situated.
B. Embed (new method)
  1. Copy the URL of your video choice from the browser address bar.
  2. Place the cursor on the location where you want to add a video. Click the + icon to add an embedded video. To see the Embed menu, scroll down passed the Most Used options. Click the Plus icon to scroll to the Embed a YouTube option.
  3. Open the Embed list and click on the appropriate social media icon. For example, if you copied the URL of a YouTube movie, then click the YouTube icon to paste in that URL.
  4. The movie should appear in your Page now. Add the caption as per Step A above.
Embed HTML (old method)

Sometimes, Wordpress won't automatically embed the movie. In that case, you might need to use a bit of HTML code to embed the file:

  1. On the video page, look around for the Sharing and/or Embed button.
    Embed iframe from YouTube
    You may have to right-click on the movie to see the embed options.
    Right-click on a YouTube movie to locate the iframe tag.
    • Copy the iframe tag/code provided.
  2. On the Wordpress Page's editing screen, click the TEXT or HTML tab next to the Visual tab at the top right of the Toolbar.
    • Scroll through the text and code to locate the paragraph just below where you want to embed the movie.
    • Paste the code into a new paragraph where you want the movie to show up.
    • Click back to the Visual editing tab.
    • Add a new paragraph under the movie and type a short description/title and add the copyright statement. For example: Biography of Marie Curie.© 2013 Bio.True Story.
    • Click Update.
    • View the live Page to ensure the movie loads and is properly situated.
C. Shortcode Method

If that method didn't work then try using a Wordpress Shortcode, like this:

  1. On the Wordpress Page's editing screen, click the TEXT or HTML tab next to the Visual tab at the top right of the Toolbar.
    • Scroll through the text and code to locate the paragraph just below where you want to embed the movie.
    • Paste this shortcode into a new paragraph where you want the movie to show up:
      • [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSXTCODrvIY&w=854&h=480]
    • Replace the red ID text with your movie's ID text.
    • Add a new paragraph under the movie and type a short description/title and add the copyright statement. For example: Biography of Marie Curie.© 2013 Bio.True Story.
    • Click Update.
    • View the Page live to ensure the movie loads and is properly situated.