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Day 16 - Optional - Create Your Own Blog - Part III
By Mike Mindel | August 17, 2007
WARNING: This post is optional. The official Thirty Day Challenge blog for your posts is Tumblr. These three posts show you how to set up a WordPress blog on the Thirty Day Challenge for fun only. This part is entirely optional.
In this last video I (Dan Raine) am going to show you how to put videos directly into your blog post.
This content is based on video 3 of the blog post series on the Thirty Day Challenge.
Login to Your Blog
So go to your blog. In this case the url is http://blogs.thirtydaychallenge.com/web20poetry/.
Click on ‘Site Admin’ or ‘Login’ (whatever appears) and login to your blog
The very first time you do this you need to active a special plugin which allows you to show the YouTube videos on your pages.
So select the Plugins option
You’ll see two active plugins.
Activate the plugin that says ‘Wuranga Show Youtube’
and it should go green
That plugin allows to show the videos on the page.
Off to Find a YouTube Video
Lets find a YouTube video we like. Remember this?
Look on the right hand side.
Every video has a unique identification on YouTube.
Copy the id
Then go back to our blog and select Write
Add a new title and some content.
The Important Bit
To add the YouTube video add two hashes (#) as you see above. Then the text ’showyoutube’.
Paste in the text you copied from the YouTube video itself.
Finally add the width and the height which you can get from the YouTube video page
followed by another two hashes (#).
You can see the full line in the image above.
Add a New Videos Category
Look at the Categories section on the right. Click ‘Add’ a new category, type in ‘Videos’ and press enter.
So now all your posts with YouTube videos can go into one place.
Publish Your Post
Hit publish…
and there’s your post with the YouTube video!
Visitors can now click on the play arrow
Done!
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