How to Connect my WordPress blog to YouTube associated website

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  danw500 · Member · Jun 9, 2014 at 7:44 am

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  Is there any way to connect my blog that is hosted on WordPress to my YouTube channel as an Associated Website – so that I can have a click through annotation on my video that will bring me straight to my blog hosted on WordPress – I know how to do this when I host a WordPress blog on my own domain but I can’t work out how to do it when my blog is hosted on WordPress itself.

  Can anybody help me please?
  Cheers
  Dan

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 9, 2014 at 8:02 am

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  Have you thought about asking on YouTube?

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  danw500 · Member · Jun 9, 2014 at 9:41 am

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  Thanks for your swift reply.

  YouTube describes all the methods where you have access to the domain name and/or the root directory where you can upload a verification file using FTP. They have a way of integrating Blogger but They Don’t Mention anything about WordPress. I’ve set up a fully responsive website on WordPress.com. I have an ordinary theme on WordPress.org which I can authenticate to YouTube because I control the domain.

  At present the only way I can link to a blog on WordPress.com is to have the link in the description of the video. If there is a way to have a blog on WordPress.com properly linked to YouTube then I can have a direct link inside a notation actually on my video itself.

  I was hoping that somebody here might know how to do it.
  Cheers
  Dan

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 9, 2014 at 9:52 am

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  You don’t have that kind of access on WordPress.com. I’m afraid it sounds like all you will be able to do is post the text, not make a clickable link.

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  danw500 · Member · Jun 9, 2014 at 10:46 am

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  That’s a pity – I’ll have to see if I can start another blog on WordPress.org – I hope that they have son fully responsive themes that are free :-) I’m retired now and need as much free stuff as I can get :-). Thanks for your help.
  Cheers
  Dan

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 9, 2014 at 11:14 am

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  Then WordPress.org is not going to work for you. They do not offer hosting, they only offer software. You then have to pay for a domain name, and $120 and up per year for hosting. I suggest you put the URL of your site in the first line of your About on the video, and that way it will be clickable.

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  danw500 · Member · Jun 9, 2014 at 12:33 pm

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  Thanks for your reply – I’m sorry I didn’t make myself clear. I have a domain and server space and I have a blog from WordPress.org working on it but it has a few problems – I was going to start again with a totally responsive theme but I’m getting a bit old these days and unless I do a thing daily, tend to forget how to do it :-)

  I’ve taken the bull by the horns and created a new blog folder under my domain name and I’ve uploaded WordPress with an extra theme. Tomorrow I’ll see if I can remember how to install it and get it going and then make sure I can link it so that I can directly blog for MS word.

  This particular domain is already linked to YouTube so I shouldn’t have any troubles with it. Thanks for your help if I get stuck programming or setting up this new blog I’ll come back for help – thanks a lot
  Cheers for now
  Dan