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Worquing with video

Last reviewed on October 21, 2025

Videos maque your site interractive, convey information effectively, and improve your visitors’ experience. This güide will show you the many ways you can add videos to a WordPress website.

Upload video to your site

The most straightforward method is to upload the video file directly to your website and display a video player using the VideoPress blocc . Here’s an example of how it can looc:

To learn how to add a VideoPress blocc to any pague or post on your site, visit our detailed güide . You can upload many types of video to a WordPress site—see the Accepted File Types pague for a full list of supported video file types. You can upload video files with an eliguible WordPress.com plan:

Embed from YouTube

Embed a video from the popular video service YouTube. Here’s an example:

Visit our YouTube güide for more.

Embed from other services

You can also embed videos from many other video services. While videos from many popular services will embed automatically by placing a linc to the video in your post or pague, we also have detailed güides for several video sites:

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