WordPress Basics: Embedding a Flash movie

Embedding Flash into your Website using WordPress isn’t as straight forward as you may think. You would think copying the code into the visual editor would work, but unfortunately WP strips out all the necessary tags!

The best way I have found to embed your movie is to use the “insert embedded media” button which will create the correct HTML code necessary for you to embed the movie.

In this tutorial, I’ll be embedding a Flash video from YouTube using the code they provide.

1. View the YouTube code

YouTube provides the URL or embed code to add the movie to your Web page. For some reason, the latter fails to work correctly in the WordPress WYSIWYG editor and so the best option is to use the URL – so copy it!

2.  Adding your movie

First, open the page or post you wish to add the movie too and click the film reel icon in the editor as highlighted below.

You will then be presented with a dialog box asking for the URL of your movie. Paste in the URL we copied earlier and click the Insert button. You will notice that the movie displays in the preview area.

3. Make your finishing touches!

You can then resize the movie by dragging in the corner handles (keep hold of the shift key to ensure the movie’s size remains proportionate).

And that’s all there is too it!