How to Add YouTube Videos To Your WordPress Sidebar

In this wordpress tutorial, I will demonstrate how to add YouTube videos to your wordpress sidebar.

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To add a single video:

  • Go to widgets: 0:57
  • Drag a text widget to your sidebar: 1:05
  • Go to the video page for the video you want to embed.
  • Click “share”
  • Then “embed”
  • Adjust the size for the video to fit in the sidebar
  • Copy the embed code
  • Paste it into your sidebar then click save and review how it looks on your site.

How to make this pull videos automatically from YouTube:

  • Add the plugin: 2:49
  • Go to widgets:3:15
  • Add the recent YouTube Widget
  • Configure settings

To download the plugin, search “My Recent YouTube Widget” or download here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/my-recent-youtube-widget/