I got very much annoyed by the fact that when I was adding YouTube video links the player size was just bloody huge… I tried finding the solution for it and at first it seemed like I have 2 choices… WordPress shortcodes or some 3rd party plug-in recommended by few users. I don’t want to add a 3rd party plug-in so I got left with shortcodes… and they simply suck… Example? You can find this on their examples site:
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaNH56Vpg-A&w=320]
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaNH56Vpg-A&w=320]
and as You can see it does nothing of what its promising. It behaves like a politician after the won elections. It just sits there and does absolutely nothing…
It almost seemed like I am out of the options… and then I have found this… I tried it using the same video as above…
[embed width=320]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaNH56Vpg-A[/embed]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaNH56Vpg-A
[embed height=320]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaNH56Vpg-A[/embed]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaNH56Vpg-A
Results are promising…
It’s embedded and resized. Now… Let’s try centering… Wrapping the whole thing in:
<p style="text-align: center;">TheWholeThing</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">[embed width=480]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaNH56Vpg-A[/embed]</p>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaNH56Vpg-A
So… Centering works…
Now lets try starting it at 20 seconds… adding:
&#t=00m20s
<p style="text-align: center;">[embed width=640]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaNH56Vpg-A&#t=00m20s[/embed]</p>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaNH56Vpg-A&#t=00m20s
That works too…
So… Embedding? ✓ Resizing? ✓ Centering? ✓ Starting at a certain time? ✓
All good.
Cheers.
Andrzej
