Now, you already have a Youtube video on your post or on your page.
Let's say that you want to make that video to start at a specific time when people play it.
The first thing you need to do is to go back to your post and to press once again on the Text tab in the right corner.
Now this is the code:
<iframe src="www.youtube com/embed/3jTjBt0Enyw" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>
Please notice that I left a space between " www.youtube" and "com".
That's only because when I put the . between youtube and com, it will load the video in this training and I am not able to properly show you how to modify it.
In your page or post's editor, make sure to include the dot between "youtube" and "com"
In order to make the video to start at a specific time we will need to add the following code: ?start=X
Where X is the number of SECONDS of where we want the video to start.
For example, if we want the video to start at the minutes 2:01, we will add ?start=121
Therefore, the code should look like this:
<iframe src="www.youtube com/embed/3jTjBt0Enyw?start=X" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>
You want to make sure that you include the ?start=X right behind the lest letter or number of the link and right before the quotes(" ") close.
A few examples:
The video will start at 25 seconds:
<iframe src="www.youtube com/embed/3jTjBt0Enyw?start=25" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>
The video will start at 6 minutes 25 seconds:
<iframe src="www.youtube com/embed/3jTjBt0Enyw?start=385" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>
The video will start at the minute 10 and 0 seconds:
<iframe src="www.youtube com/embed/3jTjBt0Enyw?start=600" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>
Now, I'll make mine to start at the minute 3. Therefore, the complete code in the Text tab will look like:
*Once again, make sure to write the link down as www.youtube.com and not as www.youtube com in your editor!!
And if you press on the visualize Tab, and hit play you will see that it starts exactly from 3:00:
After you decided at which second you want your video to start, make sure to Update the post! :)
P.S. There is no embed button on Youtube now?
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You can also adjust the size of the video so it looks balanced on your post page. The code looks like-
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eBG5PQuW6oo" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe>
In the width and height codes, change the numbers (be sure you don't delete the parenthesis, stay inside them) to fit your screen better. Be sure that the new numbers are in the same proportions as the original ones.
Hope this helps!
But have also discovered an even quicker way of doing this through just uploading the video through the "Add Media" option on a post and instead you just select the add URL option.
Need to do a training like this myself but not sure where I start?
This is great information. Thank you for sharing this with the WA community. I will begin to use this wonderful trick on my videos I have already published.
Have a wonderful day.
George
