Since WordPress 2.9, there is an Embed feature that change way to embed videos in your WordPress Blog posts. Meanwhile, the third-party plugin is not required when you want to publish it in WordPress blog posts.
Just simply, you can add Post Thumbnails in WordPress by insert (for example it’s from YouTube video).
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID |
Into your WordPress blog post (make sure it’s not clickable).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kfXOHohijo
As mentioned, you have to get the video URL from an array of video hosting provider.
Here is some video providers;
- blip.tv
- DailyMotion
- FunnyOrDie.com (WordPress 3.0+)
- Flickr (both videos and images)
- Google Video
- Revision3
- Scribd
- Hulu
- Photobucket
- PollDaddy
- Qik
- SmugMug (WordPress 3.0+)
- WordPress.tv (only VideoPress-type videos for the time being)
- YouTube
- Vimeo
- Viddler