Tutorial—How to Put a Video into Your Blog Post

Sayna asked if I could post a tutorial about how to put a video into your blog post, so I decided to do that. It’s very simple to do. (Although it might seem hard at first…)

1. Find your video. I’m going to use Across the Miles (by the Hooker Family, this has to be one of my favourite songs!) for this tutorial.

2. After you find your song, click on “Share”, and then “Embed”. On that page, you can also choose different things:
     Change video size (size it will appear on the page),
     Use HTTPS,
     and other things…I don’t like the suggested videos at the end of a video, so I never tick that option. And old embed code? It probably wouldn’t work with my blog, anyway!

3. After you choose your settings, copy the code.

4. After copying the code, go to where you edit your blog post, and click on the button that leads you to where you can edit the HTML. It’s titled differently on different platforms (shown below). I’m guessing that these are pretty standard, so you should be able to figure it out however it looks on your blog.

5. Click on the “Text”/“HTML”/“Source” button, and go down to where you want the video to appear. Paste the code you copied in step three in there. If you want the video to be centred on the page, on either side of the <iframe … ></iframe> add <center> and </center>. Then, it would look like this: <center><iframe … ></iframe></center>. Basically, what you’re doing there is actually coding your own HTML. You’re putting a tag on each side of the HTML for embedding the video. The tag tells the computer to centre the video, not just let it be on the left (as it is by default). Just be sure when you’re coding that when you open the tag (at the beginning) to close it at the end (with the “/”). That’s why at the beginning it says “<center>”, and at the end it says “</center>”. There, that’s your lesson on coding for the day.

6. After you put in the video’s embedding HTML, click on “Visual”/“Compose”/“Edit”  again, and you should see your video there! (And if you don’t you can always email me and I can try to help you sort it out. )

Hope that’s helpful!

For now,