As you can read everywhere, I also have to try the new features of WordPress
In this post I will just place a plain URL link to a YouTube Video, using no embed or object code around.
Easier video embeds in WordPress allow you to just paste a URL on its own line and have it automatically turn into the proper embed code. Sites having Oembed support are YouTube, Daily Motion, Blip.tv, Flickr, Hulu, Viddler, Qik, Revision3, Scribd, Google Video, Photobucket, PollDaddy, and WordPress.tv.
So here we go:
How to add the latest video post in the sidebar and to resize it on the fly you can find out in our forum here:
add latest video from a post in WordPress sidebar
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