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    Posted: 09 May 2015 at 9:10am
A quick guide as I've seen people having trouble with this here.

To properly link to YouTube, first off make life easier for yourself and use the Insert Movie button on the post editor. It looks like this:



Now just paste in the YouTube URL. Make sure your URL starts with http:// and not https:// (note the s in the second one). http:// works. https:// does not. If you click the Preview button after pasting the URL you want to use, and the video is black and doesn't work, then you are using https://. 

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Using https://



Using http://




Edited by adg211288 - 09 May 2015 at 9:27am
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