Tag Archives: Shortcode

Twitter

A Tweet

Classic Editor Paste in the link to a tweet. Block editor add the twitter block.

You can get a bit more control with a shortcode.

The Block Editor allow you to unroll a series of tweets to display a thread.

A Timeline

Twitter has blocked free access to the API so timelines no longer work.

[twitter-timeline username=johnjohnston]

YouTube Video

Just paste in a youtube url and the player is embedded.

You can also paste in the embed code from YouTube and it will be converted to a shortcode, this is handy if you want to customise the video size or other options. For example avoid showing related videos.

Alternatively you can add ?rel=0 after the url before pasting it in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2wrYBPLsxg?rel=0

Which will hide related videos.

Or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMmwxn7XBkw&w=600&h=600rel=0 which allows you to control the dimensions.

If you are wanting to do more than embed one or two videos you might find the Embed Plus for YouTube plugin handy.

Embed Plus for YouTube