Sometimes, and I say sometimes, I embed a video or two but I don’t like to use them too much. Videos, leaving apart video blogging, are easy content when you have nothing to say. However I embedded enough videos to realise that WordPress has some kind of problem with Youtube. I can’t tell you if this happens with other video services because till now I’ve only used Youtube.

For this reason I started to look for any plugin that could help me with this issue. I’m not going to lie to you, I didn’t test more than one because this first plugin worked easy and perfectly: Smart Youtube, developed by Vladimir Prelovac.

I found it at the Official WordPress Plugin Directory and it was one of the best rated with 5 stars and more than 16K downloads.

The installation is as simple as ever but If you don’t know how to do it check out this article about installation of themes and plugins.

Finally the use is easier than you think. You only need the URL of the Youtube video you want to embed, for example in my post of the Euro Cup 2008 Championship Celebration I embedded the following two:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIfevx0rcts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVW-V6Lb3zg

You have to place those URLs wherever you want them to appear but you have to change “http://” to “httpv://“, notice the v added in the text, and without doing anything else automatically when you publish the post these URLs will be replaced with the videos. The change will be also made in your feeds.

It is easy, doesn’t it? Now you won’t have problems when you want to embed Youtube videos in your posts.

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