Title: Using Shortcode with YouTube
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Using Shortcode with YouTube

 *  Resolved [mckendrick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mckendrick/)
 * (@mckendrick)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-shortcode-with-youtube/)
 * I’ve tried using the youtube shortcode without success. So I set up a test web
   site yesterday with the default theme 2011 at [http://locutorium.com/wp2010/](http://locutorium.com/wp2010/)–(
   I should have called the site wp2011) to which I added no plugins and no new 
   pages or anything else. All I have done is to add some additional code to the
   one and only post page.
 * The shortcode that I added for YouTube is this – [youtube=http://www.youtube.
   com/watch?v=OWfksMD4PAg] which shows up on the page completely uninterpreted 
   and no video is played.
 * I’ve also added some images and the gallery shortcode [gallery] to prove that
   shortcodes are being recognised and do work.
 * Perhaps this shortcode doesn’t function on self-hosted WordPress sites – any 
   ideas anyone?

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 *  Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * (@jdembowski)
 * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-shortcode-with-youtube/#post-2767453)
 * > Perhaps this shortcode doesn’t function on self-hosted WordPress sites – any
   > ideas anyone?
 * That is the case, but it’s also easy to add that via a plugin. Give this a look.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/vipers-video-quicktags/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/vipers-video-quicktags/)
 *  Thread Starter [mckendrick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mckendrick/)
 * (@mckendrick)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-shortcode-with-youtube/#post-2767465)
 * Thank you, Jan.

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 * [shorcode](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/shorcode/)
 * [Youtube](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/youtube/)

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 * Last reply from: [mckendrick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mckendrick/)
 * Last activity: [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-shortcode-with-youtube/#post-2767465)
 * Status: resolved

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