How to add a WordPress Blog to YouTube
Blog, Blog, Video — By Matthew Tommasi on 20 April 2009 12:10 pm
Here are the instructions on how to add a WordPress self-hosted blog to,
Please note, this does NOT apply to adding a WordPress.com blog.. only to self-hosted!
1. Firstly you need an API Key. To get one of these you need to setup an account on WordPress.com. Once you have created an account go to Users –> Your Profile and take a note of your API Key.
2. At this point I had already activated my Akismet plugin, whereby you are required to enter your API Key in your self-hosted blog, obtained from step 1.
This allows you to use services and enhancements built on the WordPress.com platform while still hosting your blog elsewhere.
3. Now that you are logged into your self-hosted blog, go to Settings –> Writing and enable XML-RPC – Enable the WordPress, Movable Type, MetaWeblog and Blogger XML-RPC publishing protocols, then click save.
4. Now login to your YouTube account, go to Account –> Blog Setup –> Add a Blog
5. Enter/Select,
- Blog Service: WordPress Self-Hosted
- UserName: username for your WordPress self-hosted login (eg admin)
- Password: password for your WordPress self-hosted login
- API URL: http://yourblog.com/blog/xmlrpc.php (ie this URL is pointing to the xmlrpc.com file in your blog’s directory)
- API Key: obtained from Step 1 above
- Click <Add Blog>
- Done! Your self-hosted WordPress blog has now been added to your YouTube account.
6. To add a YouTube video to your blog,
- Select a video
- Click on the Share link just under the video
- Click on Post to a Blog
- Select your Blog (from the drop down menu)
- Click Post to Blog
- Done! This YouTube video will appear shortly on your Blog.
Finally..
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thanks for the great help
Matthew, they have taken out the Blog Setup in Youtube.
Thanks for letting me know Gazali!
How did you go with this?
Did you get it to work?
Quite frustrating. I followed the steps explicitly and the best I could get from YouTube was a message about not being able to find the file.
Arggggg.
Hi, there. Thanks so much for this post. It's excellent.
Since wordpress has been updated, one of the items don't appear to be accurate. The user profile page no longer displays the API (at least not for me). I had to have mine emailed to me.
Just wanted to let you know. Thanks again!
Thanks, the issue was that I needed to put “/xmlrpc.php” after my url. This was not clear to me in the instructions. But otherwise I was happy to use this information. Thanks!
To add your self-hosted WordPress blog to YouTube (thereby enabling you to
post YouTube videos to your blog), check you have done the following,
1. Obtained an API Key from a WP.com account
2. Enabled xmlrpc on your self-hosted site
3. Add your self-hosted site to YouTube, as per my instructions above
4. Choose a video to post to your site, then Post to Blog
If you have done all of this correctly, then the video will appear almost
straight away.
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I DID!!!!!!!!!!.
Although, the explanation of what an API url is not stated. Is this my domain name? like is it http://www.google.com or is it some crazy http://www.google.com/agtjsjsk/_shdsiias link that I don't know about. I've checked all my emails, and I've gone through the steps several times. No dice.
You need to follow every step exactly for this to work.
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I have my API Key but for whatever reason, my API url is not working.
I am working on a self-hosted WordPress and looking to post youtube. I've followed every step
Thanks for the comment mate and glad you are now sorted.
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I found this very helpful, youtube had me stumped until I found this.
Thanks.
No worries.
Thank you very much for your instructions. Cheers, Daryl
I hear you mate, it did my head in too. Thanks for the comment.
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Thank you for this man … it was giving me a head ache
Thanks.
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great, nice, precise, werry helpfule.
It is called Camtasia Studio 6 by Techsmith.
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Hi Matthew,
may i know the tool you have used to zoom in and zoom out
Thank you for this!
Simply put the following text into the tags section for your video – simple!
Tag: yt:crop=16:9
(zooms in on the 16:9 area, removes windowboxing)
Tag: yt:stretch=16:9
(fixes anamorphic content by scaling to 16:9)
Tag: yt:stretch=4:3
(fixes 720×480 content that is the wrong aspect ratio by scaling to 4:3)
Tag: yt:quality=high
(default to a high quality stream, depending on availability)
thank you thank you thank you! I did not have that plugin active thanks fixed everything up also if my youtube channel is but thanks very much
its not spam
http://youtube.com/ahardline
Nice work!
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Hwow, thanks for this. I finally linked my blog at youtube!
You have to manually enter a post title.
(Currently) YouTube doesn't automatically post the title on a WordPress blog. Hopefully this will change sometime soon.
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i have no post title… :-/
any idea why?
Thanks for the comment Heather and glad to hear it worked out for you!
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Ahhhh…thank you! I found the link to this post on the WordPress forum and thank goodness I did! Every step was exact and the end result was successful. Thanks!!!
Hi Mike
Glad the instructions got you sorted! Thanks for signing up.
Regards
Matt
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Wow! Glad I found you. I tried to tie my blog and youtube accounts together a few months ago and gave up. Your instruction was just what I needed. Happy to join your list.
Mike
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http://www.coolsiteoftheday.com
G'day Brett
Unfortunately I don't know of a way to post as 16:9.. I can't see a way to
enable 16:9 posting from YouTube's end.
And I also couldn't see a way to post to your blog from a YouTube channel..
under the Share link.. there isn't an option to post or share to blogs (only
to other social networks and via email)..
YouTube need to lift their game!
If you find a way to post 16:9 please let me know.
Thanks
Matt
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It works beautifully! Thank you!
Two questions: Is there a way to get these videos to post as 16:9 rather than 4:3 with letterbox? Also, is there a way to get the Post to a Blog option to appear when viewing in a YouTube Channel?
Thanks again for this awesome and well-written tip!
Brett
No worries mate.. thanks for dropping by.
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lots of thanks you've saved me the life
Thanks for the comment mate. Glad it worked for you.
Cheers
Matt
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Thanks a lot! This is is what i have been looking for for hours!
What part of it fails?
Follow my instructions exactly, and don't miss a single step.. it works.
I cannot get this to work for the life of me.
Nice work Deb!
Cheers
Matt
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Oh hey! I didn't need the key after all.
Thanks, Matt, for the bit about allowing the XML-RPC because it was only after clicking and allowing that that my problems stopped.
Peace =D
I don't have an API key. Checked the welcome email – nope. Checked my user profile – nope.
Perhaps my blog is so cruddy that they don't want me bandying it about the place!
Nice work.. glad you got things sorted. Thanks for the comment!
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Awesome!!! You helped us solve our feed validator problem on our WordPress blog. We were embedding the youtube video on our blog post and it wasn't validating in our feed validator. Thanks so much for the great explanation.
Glad I could help out a little bit.
Matt
thank you so much-crystal clear instructions
Hi Michele
Thanks for the comment. Hope it all worked out for you!
Cheers
Matt
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Thanks for the two-way Guide, it's truly awesome!!!
I'm looking forward to trying it out.
Will let you know how I go …
Warm wishes
Michele (@maxOz)
Thanks for the two-way Guide, it's truly awesome!!!
I'm looking forward to trying it out.
Will let you know how I go …
Warm wishes
Michele (@maxOz)
Glad you got up and running! Thanks for the comment.
Thanks for the kind comment Alvina!
Thanks for the comment.. glad to be of help!
No worries.. glad it worked for you!
thank you for the info — haven't found anything as clear as your instructions — and it worked.
Thanks
Thank you for your help. I can link to my blog now, this site is awesome in terms of blogging tech help ill recommend it to other bloggers.
Thanks again
finally a guide that works thank u.
Please follow all the steps exactly and you will be able to post YouTube videos to your blog.
It still won't let me. Do you have to manually install the API key?
I received an unknown error when attempting to add my blog to youtube and Google failed to report any specific errors. I wanted to start publishing videos to my divorce site, but only received an unknown error message. After changing the settings on the self hosted blog;everything worked fine. I do not know why Google does not give these same instructions. Thanks Matt.
Brilliant finally got it set up thanks to you
now it worked. i just had to remove the www in my address. wierd
has anyone tried this with 2.8? because mine's not working
Just a quick heads up to let you know that the API field can be left be empty in situations like this, when a SELF hosted wordpress blog is involved. Just setup mine for the first time, and it worked a treat.
I have tested this many times and it does work.. just make sure you follow the steps exactly and you will be able to add your self-hosted blog to YouTube and then easily post videos to your site.
HELP PLEASE! I DID EXACTLY AS YOU SAID AND IT DOESN'T WORK.pelase contact me at
Very Helpful, Only remained the WP writing Settings, Thanks Matthew Tomassi
Very helpful! I just didn't have it activated.
Thx for an excellent guide…
This post realy help me. TNX!
I just saw this in YouTube earlier today and wasn't sure what the point was. Thanks for the write up!
Great guide, Just what I was looking for.
I didn't hear the sound though. Not usre if it was a youtube problem since I wasn't able to hear the sound of other yourtubeVideos on you tube today.
Great outline and screen shots to connect Youtube videos to self-hosted blog. Thanks.
Thank you, it took me way too long to find this information.
Simon
Thank you so much for this– I had no idea why YouTube gave me an "unspecified error" message before.
One thing I've noticed though:
The videos get posted fine, but for some reason the title of the video doesn't get posted as "the title". Instead, a new post is created called with "no title", and the first line of the post is the actual title.
Is there a way to change this? Has anyone else experienced this?
I did everything as it says, my blog showed and I added it, but it doesn't appear then in YouTube. Somehow when I hit delete, it does delete it, but when I add it again, still nothing. Also when I go to a video and try the link to a blog feature, my blog doesn't show. Ideas?
Make sure you have followed the instructions exactly.
Check you have done the following,
1. Obtained an API Key from a WP.com account
2. Enabled xmlrpc on your self-hosted site
3. Add your self-hosted site to YouTube, as per my instructions above
4. Choose a video to post to your site, then Post to Blog
If you have done all of this correctly, then the video will appear almost straight away.
Thanks alot for that, helped me immensely.
Thank you, I didn’t have xmlrpc enabled in wordpress. Enabling it fixed it.
Thank you so much! I was wasting so much time trying to figure this out.
Brilliant! I culdn’t figure out what I was doing wrong. Kust going to post a vid to my blog. Thank you. <3
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