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Adding audio and video to content

Adding audio and video to content - WordPress Tutorial

From the course: WordPress.com Essential Training

Adding audio and video to content

- [Instructor] WordPress supports video embeds from a number of video services including YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, Instagram, and more. Now, if you want to upload and host your video files on your site, you can do that but that's going to be with a service called VideoPress, and that's available with paid Wordpress.com plans. In this lesson, I'd like to use a YouTube video and show you a couple of ways to embed it into either a post or a page. I'm going to head back to my site. Let's add a new post, and give it a title. Now, if we go to insert a block and search for video, there's actually a block called Video and another one called VideoPress. While those sound promising, they're not actually the ones I want. Those blocks are reserved specifically for those accounts using the VideoPress service. So here I've actually got YouTube, but if I didn't see that, I could just Search, YouTube, and there's actually a…

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