Is there a way to embed youtube videos so that they autostart on a free wp site?

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  yesnotesinfo · Member · Nov 23, 2018 at 6:01 pm

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  I tried to embed a video to autostart in all ways possible, but for the free wordpress blogs this seems not to be possible:
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  tried with brackeds, long youtube url and autoplay=true.
  Nothing works, and it is not mentioned on the help page:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/youtube/
  Thanks for your help.

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  fstat · Staff · Nov 24, 2018 at 5:46 pm

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  Hi there,

  The only way to autoplay YouTube videos is if you upgrade to the Business plan and use the embed code that YouTube provides.

  On all the other WordPress.com plans only the following customization can be done:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/youtube/#video-customization-options