{"id":12092,"date":"2024-05-06T08:10:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T08:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hostvento.com\/kb\/web-hosting\/getting-started-guide\/shared-hosting-quick-start-guide\/how-to-embed-a-video-into-wordpress-posts-and-pages\/"},"modified":"2024-06-15T03:02:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T03:02:15","slug":"how-to-embed-a-video-into-wordpress-posts-and-pages","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/docs\/hosting-faqs\/how-to-embed-a-video-into-wordpress-posts-and-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"How to embed a video into WordPress posts and pages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Including videos in your WordPress pages and posts is a pretty simple process. Posts with a video or image are more valuable. Even a lengthy topic can be readily summarized in two or three minutes of video. Include pictures and videos in your blog entries to increase readership. Plugins or embed codes from the video website were required in previous iterations of WordPress in order to upload a video. It is quite simple to embed videos into your blogs if you are using WordPress version 2.9 or later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How to embed Video?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paste the video URL into your blog articles after copying it. Please do not add a hyperlink to the video URL as it should not be clickable. When you select &#8220;preview,&#8221; the video will be integrated into your blog post. Once your post is complete, click the publish button to activate the embedded video and make the post live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We do not recommend to upload videos in your WordPress blog. Most of the WordPress blogs are hosted on a shared hosting platform and uploading videos would eat up more disk space and server resources. If the video gets huge traffic then your WordPress blog might get crashed. We suggest you to upload your videos on a third party trusted websites like YouTube, Google Video, blip.Tv etc. This would help you to save server resources and hosting expenses and you would get more visitors through these video sharing websites as well. It\u2019s a dual benefit so don\u2019t miss it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Save your blog hosting expenses by considering <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/\">WordPress hosting services<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Including videos in your WordPress pages and posts is a pretty simple process. Posts with a video or image are more valuable. Even a lengthy topic can be readily summarized in two or three minutes of video. Include pictures and videos in your blog entries to increase readership. Plugins or embed codes from the video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":23377,"menu_order":780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-12092","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/12092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12092"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/12092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20667,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/12092\/revisions\/20667"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/23377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=12092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}