How to embed YouTube videos in your WordPress using the media library

Videos are important on all the sites across the internet but we know that, when hosted on our server, could end up eating too much server storage, that's why WP Media Folder allows you to manage YouTube videos to embed them directly from your Media Library.

With this awesome remote video feature directly in the Media Library, everything will be easier as we will be able to use a folder to order our videos and also add them to our content directly using them as a normal image.

In this post we will see how easy is to embed a video using WP Media Folder.

Adding a Youtube video to the Media Library

First of all, we need to enable the Enable remote video feature option from the Settings > WP Media Folder > General > Main Settings.

Now we can go to our Media Library and the Add Remote Video option will be available.

A block will appear where we can paste the YouTube video that we want to embed, edit the thumbnail if we want to,  and click on Create.

Our Video will be uploaded to our Media Library as it is magic!

We could say that it was easier than uploading an image! And we can edit it just like any other media on our site by clicking it.

We can now upload as many videos as we want to our media library and also use the WP Media Folders features to organize, filter, and display them in our content!

Embed remote videos to your WordPress content

Now that we have our remote videos in the Media Library, adding them to our content will be easier than ever before! Let's see how to do it.

First of all, go to the page/post where we want to add the video and edit it, then select the normal image block that we would use to trigger the Media Library.

The Media Library will be shown and we can navigate in our folders to find the Youtube video embed and add it.

Just click the video, add it, and the magic is done! An embed video is served.

As easy as adding any other image to your content! Of course, we can use the video in any other place where we would use an image normally like the WP Media Folder galleries.

It is also good to note that it is not just limited to WP Media Folder galleries that have many awesome themes and are really easy to use but you can also use any other gallery and any other Page Builder, WP Media Folder and the remote videos will work perfectly fine!

Manage YouTube videos in your WordPres Media Library

As you can see this is an awesome feature that we can use for so many things that we could never end this post showing them :) and we can not just use YouTube but also Dailymotion, Vimeo, Facebook, Twitch, Wistia, and your domain as well! Of course, we can also note that there are many other tools that WP Media Folder offers us like cloud connection to the Media Library and even options to offload it.

So what are you waiting for? Go here and get your own copy!