Dimensions of Youtbe embedded video

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  jordiapollonia · Member · Oct 6, 2014 at 9:39 pm

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  Hi,
  I embedded a youtube video onto my page using the syntax explained in http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/youtube/, but I can’t resize the video so that it does’t span across the max width of my page.

  I saw another user posted about this issue, but he had no answer:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/resize-embedded-youtube-video?replies=1#post-951835

  As he wrote, I tried the options such as this to specify my video size:

  [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaNH56Vpg-A&w=320&h=240]

  But this doesn’t work: the youtube videostill span across the full page in the middle, and only the size of the video within the youtube area is changed. i.e., you see black section on either side of the video.

  Is it possible to change the size of the actual embedded youtube area? Thanks

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Oct 6, 2014 at 9:42 pm

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  What is the URL of the post or page you embedded the YouTube into please?

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  jordiapollonia · Member · Oct 6, 2014 at 10:14 pm

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  HI,
  this is the url with the vyoutbe video:

  http://jordiapollonia.wordpress.com/portfolio/austria-turismo/

  …but in the meantimeI think I found the reason of my problem here:

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/trouble-getting-vimeo-video-shown-in-the-size-that-i-want-in-illustratr-theme?replies=11

  It looks like if I want to manage this issue with my Illustratr theme I should upgrade to Custom Design.
  Isn’t it?

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  timethief · Member · Oct 6, 2014 at 10:25 pm

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  I see the youtube here displayed at full size for your theme. It cannot be any wider than the theme itself is http://jordiapollonia.wordpress.com/portfolio/austria-turismo/

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  jordiapollonia · Member · Oct 6, 2014 at 10:28 pm

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  Yes, i understand that.
  In fact, for me it’s too wide, and I’d like to set an inferior width, because as you can see the video quality is not very good at full size.

  If I’m not wrong, the theme width is 840px; so, I’d like to set the video width to 600px, for example. But I can’t do that, because youtube shortcodes don’t work.

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  shawnajroberts · Member · Oct 10, 2014 at 5:33 pm

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  Hi there!

  The other thread you linked to is correct. On Portfolio pages, all videos are stretched to full width.

  Sorry I can’t be more helpful. Please let me know if you have more questions!

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  paolamontalbano · Member · Oct 13, 2014 at 9:18 am

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  Thanks shawnajroberts,
  I think I’ll keep my site as it is, in the end this video issue could have been worse :-)