Youtube channel ID

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  viewfinderbycris · Member · Feb 3, 2016 at 5:46 pm

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  I’m trying to add my YouTube channel to my social media icons, but WordPress has https://www.youtube.com/channel/USERID as their setting and my channel’s custom URL is https://www.youtube.com/c/USERID.
  Is there anyway of changing that?
  Thank you!

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  timethief · Member · Feb 3, 2016 at 5:55 pm

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  If you have a youtube account then have you verified your blog ownership with Google’s Webmaster Tools? Instructions for verifying your website are here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/#google-webmaster-tools

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  timethief · Member · Feb 3, 2016 at 5:55 pm

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  You can use a text widget:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/#adding-an-image
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/links/text-widget-links/

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  timethief · Member · Feb 3, 2016 at 5:56 pm

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  NOTE: If you are trying to embed a youtube channel code that will not work.

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  banhgao · Member · Feb 4, 2016 at 4:18 pm

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  You can find your channel ID here
  https://www.youtube.com/account_advanced
  Just copy the ID and paste to the widget

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  timethief · Member · Feb 6, 2016 at 12:05 am

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  @viewfinderbycris
  Can you verify whether or not that works, please?

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Feb 6, 2016 at 2:55 am

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  Please let us know if that worked for you.

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  viewfinderbycris · Member · Feb 6, 2016 at 2:56 am

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  What you said makes sense but it’s not what I’m trying to do. Thanks for the help, though!

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Feb 6, 2016 at 2:59 am

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  What happens if you go to the URL:

  https://www.youtube.com/channel/USERID

  (with USERID beign the correct user ID)

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  viewfinderbycris · Member · Feb 6, 2016 at 3:01 am

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  It says the channel does not exist.

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  banhgao · Member · Feb 6, 2016 at 5:34 am

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  @viewfinderbycris: Have you tried what I had suggested?

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Feb 7, 2016 at 7:50 pm

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