Videos make your site interactive, convey information effectively, and improve your visitors’ experience. This guide will show you the many ways you can add videos to a WordPress website.
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Ask our AI assistantThe most straightforward method is to upload the video file directly to your website and display a video player using the VideoPress block. Here’s an example of how it can look:
To learn how to add a VideoPress block to any page or post on your site, visit our detailed guide. You can upload many types of video to a WordPress site—see the Accepted File Types page for a full list of supported video file types. You can upload video files with an eligible WordPress.com plan:
Embed a video from the popular video service YouTube. Here’s an example:
Visit our YouTube guide for more.
You can also embed videos from many other video services. While videos from many popular services will embed automatically by placing a link to the video in your post or page, we also have detailed guides for several video sites:
