Centered Video on non self hosted version of wordpress

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  apilt · Member · Jun 11, 2013 at 2:13 am

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  Is there a way to import a video with YouTube and have it show centered on your blog with the non-self-hosted version of WordPress? Here is how my video page looks now: http://apilt.wordpress.com/video/

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  justpi · Member · Jun 11, 2013 at 6:34 am

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  YouTube videos are supposed to be centered. Unfortunately this works based on the default width of the main column: it doesn’t take into account the no-sidebar template. You can edit the page, switch the editor to Text (=code), and add this at the beginning:
  <div style="width:611px;margin:auto;">
  and this at the end:
  </div>

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  apilt · Member · Jun 11, 2013 at 5:28 pm

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  Thank you for the suggestion justpi. However, all that shows after doing that are hyperlinks to the videos on youtube. I am using the website version not the self-hosted version if that helps with clarification.

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  justpi · Member · Jun 11, 2013 at 9:02 pm

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  You’re welcome.
  You should always prefer inserting the videos via the YT shortcode, not just by pasting the URL:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/youtube/#embedding-with-a-shortcode

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  apilt · Member · Jun 12, 2013 at 3:59 pm

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  OK.
  I inserted using shortcode and set the alignment for center but, the videos are still left aligned. do i use the div style code mentioned above at this point or is there something else i should do given that i am using the website version instead of the self-hosted version of WordPress?

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  apilt · Member · Jun 12, 2013 at 4:21 pm

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  I figured it out!!!!
  I was putting the code in wrong. (figures)
  so in the end it looks like this:
  <div style=”width: 611px; margin: auto;”>[youtube=”link to video goes here”]</div>
  Thank You for all your help justpi!!!!