The procedure for inserting any other type of file into your Page or Post is exactly the same as Inserting an Image:
- Simply click the Add Media button.
- Once the relevant popup window displays, perform the same steps to upload your file to your site and to insert it into your Page or Post.
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It’s recommended that you make your filename ‘server friendly’. Make sure the filename has no spaces, apostrophes, slashes or other non-alphanumeric characters (such as $, % and &). Rename the file before uploading if it does. To preserve readability, some people replace spaces with the underline character or hyphen. For instance, My File Name.txt becomes My_File_Name.txt or My-File-Name.txt
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Embedding a Video, Image or Other Content
Another way to add video or other content into your pages is through embedding. A popular example of this is embedding a YouTube video into your page.
When you are embedding a file:
- There is no need to upload the file to your site.
- You are basically just creating a link to the file, from within your own page.
If you would like to specify the width and height, you can wrap the URL in the [embed] shortcode. Embedding your link using this shortcode does not require the URL to be on its own line. The format for using the shortcode is: [embed width= “123” height= “456”] url [/embed]
WordPress will automatically embed content from the following sites:
• YouTube (Only public videos)
• Vimeo
• blip.tv
• Flickr
• Viddler
• Hulu
• Qik
• Scribd
• WordPress.tv (Currently only VideoPress type videos)
• SmugMug