Embedding YouTube videos

You can easily embed YouTube videos in a page using page properties.

When you view videos on the YouTube website, the site offers the facility to copy and paste some HTML code into a webpage so that you can display the video on your site. We've made it possivle to do the same using the [properties] tab in Page Manager.

You key piece of information you need is the unique reference for the video. This consists of a around 12 randon characters and you find it buried in the HTML code or on the address bar. See the example below where the uinque video ID is ijvYZo5KvQg

To get the video to appear on the page, enter this ID in Source URL and set Source Type to YouTube Video, as below.

Enhancing the page

If you want to improve the page further you coudl also: -

• Use the title and description of the page from the YouTube site as the Title and Intro for the page.
• Put the YouTube contributor's ID into the Author.
• Copy and paste the thumbnail from YouTube and upload it to the Image Library, then set the Image property. The tumbnail will then appear in search results.