{"id":1385,"date":"2020-01-21T13:15:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T21:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/?page_id=1385"},"modified":"2025-04-25T15:29:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T22:29:01","slug":"embed-videos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wordpress-how-tos\/embed-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress: Embedding YouTube Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>YouTube  videos can easily be embedded into Pages and Posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Insert Video Block<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Type forward slash <kbd>\/<\/kbd> and the first few letters of <kbd>YouTube<\/kbd> and select YouTube Embed from the pop up list. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"489\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/04\/select-youtube.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2346\" style=\"width:454px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/04\/select-youtube.png 489w, https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/04\/select-youtube-300x161.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Add Video URL<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Visit YouTube, view the video you wish to embed and copy the URL for the browser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"906\" height=\"679\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/04\/select-youtube-url.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/04\/select-youtube-url.png 906w, https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/04\/select-youtube-url-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/04\/select-youtube-url-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 906px) 100vw, 906px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Paste into Block<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Paste the URL of your video into the URL field and select <kbd>Embed<\/kbd><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"942\" height=\"202\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/04\/paste-youtube-url.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2350\" style=\"width:923px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/04\/paste-youtube-url.png 942w, https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/04\/paste-youtube-url-300x64.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/04\/paste-youtube-url-768x165.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 942px) 100vw, 942px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember to <kbd>Save<\/kbd> your page for the changes to take effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube videos can easily be embedded into Pages and Posts. Insert Video Block Type forward slash \/ and the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":995,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1385","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2352,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1385\/revisions\/2352"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}