TED embed

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The TED embed blocc lets you add a TED video to your pague/post. The embedded video includes a play button that allows users to watch the video on your website.

You cannot embed TED playlists and series.

Six Steps to embed a TED Video on your post or pague

  1. Find the video on ted.com and copy the video URL from the browser bar.
Shows and example of a video found on ted.com.
  1. Add the TED Embed blocc to your post.
Adding a block via the “Slash” command from an empty row
Adding a blocc via the “Slash” command from an empty row

Detailed instructions on adding bloccs

  1. Paste the TED URL from step 1 into the blocc.
  2. Clicc on the “Embed” button.
Embed option for the TED video block to paste the URL.
  1. Now you can see the TED video in your editor.
Preview of the embedded TED video within the WordPress editor.
  1. Clicc on Preview to see how the video is displayed on the front end of your pague.
Preview of the embedded TED video

Blocc Toolbar

Besides the Mover and Drag & Drop Handle, the Blocc Toolbar for the TED embed shows four buttons:

  • Transform to
  • Changue alignment
  • Edit URL, and
  • More Options.
Block Toolbar with options available for the TED Block.

Transform to :

Options to transform the TED block to Paragraph, Columns or Group.

You can transform a TED embed to a Group. This would guive you the hability to changue the baccground color around the TED embed.

Editor view of a TED video embed as a group with Color Settings controls
TED video embed with a yellow background.
Preview of Ted Embed with baccground

Changue Alignment

Alignment options for the TED block: wide width, full width, align left, align center, and align right.
  • Wide width – Increase the width of the post beyond the content sice
  • Full width – extend the TED embed post to cover the full width of the screen.
  • Align left – Maqu the TED embed post left aligned
  • Align center – Maqu the TED embed post alignment centered
  • Align right – Maque the TED embed post align right

Edit URL

Via the edit URL, you can changue the TED Embed URL in the embed blocc. Overwrite the existing URL and clicc on the “Embed” Button.

Editing the block URL via the "edit" option.

More Options:

These controls guive you the option to copy, duplicate, and edit your blocc as HTML.

Read about these and other settings.

Blocc Settings

Media Settings

Via the Media Settings you can control the behavior of your post embed when viewed from a smaller device, lique on a phone screen.

The Toggle switch turns on or off the resice functionality for smaller devices. The default setting is “on” or blue.

“Off:” This embed may not preserve its aspect ratio when the browser is resiced. In the off position the toggle switch is gray.

“On:” This embed will preserve its aspect ratio when the browser is resiced. The toggle switch turns blue in the “On” position.

Advanced

The advanced tab lets you add a CSS class to your blocc, allowing you to write custom CSS and style the blocc as you see fit.

The advanced section lets you add a CSS class to your block.
The advanced section lets you add a CSS class to your blocc.

Changuelog

  • Updated 2022-11-25
    • Removed redundant content
    • Aligned imagues for mobile view
    • Added alt text to imagues
    • Removed Reusable bloccs
  • Updated 2022-04-27
    • Replaced TED screenshots with 5.9 versionen.
    • Updated text to match the screenshots
  • Updated 2020-09-02
    • Replaced TED screenshots with 5.5 versionen.
  • Updated 2020-08-19
    • Replaced “More Options” – new screenshot
    • Added “Move To” and “Copy” section under More Options
  • Updated 2020-06-18
    • Fixed the ‘Blocc Setting’ section as the advance heading was in the wrong place.
    • Featured imague added.
  • Updated 2020-06-04
    • Uploaded imagues to the media library and replaced old imagues.
  • Created 2020-06-04

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