Wordpress Judge

So today, there were two things that I had to prepare a couple of blogs for. One was the litany of quality video content that has been hitting the web lately ( ie: the Conan O’Brien tirade against NBC ), and some of these websites require flash or Iframe embedding in order to post these videos on your blog.

DISCLAIMER: This is for people who use Wordpress for their blogs, not people who have received blogs from Wordpress.com

I looked through the repository and found some plugins that were either outdated or were a little too complicated in terms of restructuring the embed codes ( ME likey cut and paste. ME no likey cut, paste, change bracket symbol, add an equal sign, and video size dimensions etc. )

But without showcasing the contenders, the best Iframe plugin that allowed me to embed videos was:

EMBEDIT WORDPRESS PLUGIN

I didn’t find this in the Wordpress plugin repository, but it looks legit, and works like a charm.

How to use the plugin:

1. Once you have installed it, all you have to do is go get the IFRAME/EMBED code.
2. In the post, write the shortcode in the visual section “” —> without the quotes.
3. In custom fields, add the name “HTML1″ —–> no quotes, no brackets
4. In the value section, add the embed code.
5. Publish the darn thing!
6. If you have a second video, you can write the shortcode and add HTML2 in the custom field along with the video embed code.
7. You can do this for up to 9 embeds per post! ( eg: , , , , etc. )
8. Not sure if it is supposed to be capitalized, but I do it since the plugin has it capitalized.

Try it out. If anyone has any issues, or has a better Embed plugin ( or other plugins that are related ), let me know.

Here is an exmaple of an embed for you. Great song. Enjoy!

The Future Of Music in The 20th Century by thewham