Inserting a video

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  abarefootgal · Member · May 16, 2014 at 6:18 pm

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  Can you put a video in your post? I have tried to several times but to no avail.

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  timethief · Member · May 16, 2014 at 6:21 pm

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  Yes you can embed videos in posts and pages, provided you use the guides provided in the support docs. Each guide has a troubleshooting section as well.

  The video embeds that WordPress.com supports for all of our blogs – no upgrade required are found here.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/

  Video shortcodes are here – use them. http://en.support.wordpress.com/shortcodes/#video

  Youtube troubleshooting here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/youtube/#troubleshooting

  For a Flash workaround see here > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/gigya-shortcode-3-widgets/

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  abarefootgal · Member · May 16, 2014 at 6:40 pm

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  Thank you! You can’t put a video of your own on the post right?

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  galois · Member · May 16, 2014 at 6:42 pm

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  You can’t put a video of your own on the post right?

  Yes, but you need the videopress upgrade:

  The VideoPress upgrade allows you to host and play videos right from your blog. VideoPress is priced per year and per blog. You can purchase it from the Store panel of your dashboard.

  VideoPress

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  timethief · Member · May 16, 2014 at 6:44 pm

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  Yes. You have two options. Upload the video to youtube or another video hosting site free of charge and then embed it into the blog. Or purchase the videopress upgrade. http://support.wordpress.com/videopress/