You can now embed YouTube videos in your posts. Here's how: Find the video you'd like to include and get the URL. Here's the URL for the one I've included:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYl8SYNuaKQ
Take everything to the right of the equals sign. In this case, cYl8SYNuaKQ This is the code you need to put in the youtube code. Paste that code like this:
cYl8SYNuaKQ
Select it, then click the new YouTube button in the compose screen. Here's what it looks like (xx put in so it didn't trigger an actual video:
and here's the result:
NOTE: You cannot have any spaces or carriage returns in the code. This will not work:
It has been reported that IE may result in this behavior if you use the method I've described. If so, then click the YouTube button first, then paste your code between the empty tags.
Also you may need to remove anything after the code itself. For example in this URL, you may need to remove everything to the right of the code starting with the "&" - you only want what's in bold:
hxxp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYl8SYNuaKQ&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYl8SYNuaKQ
Take everything to the right of the equals sign. In this case, cYl8SYNuaKQ This is the code you need to put in the youtube code. Paste that code like this:
cYl8SYNuaKQ
Select it, then click the new YouTube button in the compose screen. Here's what it looks like (xx put in so it didn't trigger an actual video:
Code:
[YxxTUBE]cYl8SYNuaKQ[/YOUTUBE]NOTE: You cannot have any spaces or carriage returns in the code. This will not work:
Code:
[YxxTUBE]
cYl8SYNuaKQ
[/YOUTUBE]Also you may need to remove anything after the code itself. For example in this URL, you may need to remove everything to the right of the code starting with the "&" - you only want what's in bold:
hxxp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYl8SYNuaKQ&feature=player_embedded
