there are many ways to add a video to your WordPress site. One of them is to embed a Youtube video. Embed just means that you will be using the Youtube player provided, so you will not have to have a video player installed on your site. That’s a quick and easy way to add a video to your site in minutes.
How to get the embeded code from youtube
To get the embed code of your video, click on Share, then Embed, then copy the Iframe code
– How to setup autoplay for your youtube video
Setting up autoplay is really easy, but it’s not done from Youtube. You need to add a parameter to the embed code.
So for example if my embed code is
then you just need to add ?autoplay=1 to the src portion of the code:
How to start the video at a certain time
To start the video at a certain time, just add the following parameter ?start=10 to start the video at 10 seconds like this
How to display/hide the video controls
To display video controls, you need to have the parameter controls set to 1 (it is by default 1). To hide the display control just add the following parameter ?controls=0
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