How to upload video to wordpress?

Newbie to HTML, CSS & now just mastering wordpress. Trying to upload a video to one of my pages but it is all over the page.

Could you please explain what you mean by ā€˜all over the pageā€™?

Hi WebMachine,

Sorry was typing in a rush. Iā€™m trying to upload a video but it seems that I have to upload from youtube. When I put in the url, it looks like it will display perfectly at the same dimensions as the picture above it but instead it comes out bigger, and over to the right of the screen making the text looks crazy as it slots around it.

Also, it displays as a black box with a smaller square inside playing the video.

My steps were to ā€œupload mediaā€ > insert youtube url > add to page > preview.

It all seems very easy but yet Iā€™m missing something.

Why donā€™t you use the ā€˜shareā€™ option on YouTube? When you click on that, you get the choice of ā€˜Embedā€™ which give you the embedding code (along with the video size which is editable - just make sure you keep the aspect ratio the same). Copy this code and paste it into the html view of your page.

Thank you! I was about to play with the embed code last night and chickened out - by aspect ratio, do you mean just ensure that the two dimensions maintain the same ratio between them?

Yes, exactly - so that you donā€™t embed a video that looks distorted.

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Thanks so much for your help @webmachine

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