You can now embed videos from YouTube or Vimeo. This means the whole player shows in your post, and you can play the video from there. Convenient and easy for the person who's reading.
To do this, there are 2 new tags available as you post, and they show as 2 new buttons on the "New Post' page - see screenshot below, on the far right: 1. Instructions to embed a video from YouTube
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YouTube tag syntax:
[youtube]video_ID_string[/youtube]
Example - Instead of pasting the ordinary URL to YouTube, like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj6ho1-G6tw
extract instead the video ID from that URL and put it between an opening tag and a closing tag, like:
[youtube]Cj6ho1-G6tw[/youtube]
2. Instructions to embed a video from Vimeo
With Vimeo, it's slightly more complex because you need to specify the width and height of the player as they appear in the 'embed code' which is provided by Vimeo.
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Vimeo tag syntax:
[vimeo=width,height]video_ID[/vimeo]
Example - Instead of pasting the ordinary URL to Vimeo, like:
http://vimeo.com/11306252
go instead to that page on Vimeo, click EMBED on the video, and note down the width and height. Take the video ID from that URL, along with the width and height, and put all of them inside the tags like this:
[vimeo=600,338]11306252[/vimeo]