Embed YouTube Videos in Joomla 2.5 and 3

January 21, 2013 | Joomla Tutorials | Written by Steve Burge

YouTube Embedder

Displaying YouTube videos is one of the most popular things you can do with your Joomla site.

Our YouTube Embedder plugin is the fastest and easiest way to do it. All you need to do is add the URL of the video into your articles.

We've just released a completely free version of YouTube Embedder for Joomla 2.5 and Joomla 3. Here's how it works ...

Installation

Go to the YouTube Embedder download page.
In your Joomla site, go to the Extension Manage and upload YouTube Embedder.
Go to Extension Manager > Plugin Manager and enable the plugin.
Inside the plugin you can set the default height and width for the videos.

Usage

Go to YouTube.com and find the video you want to use.
Copy the URL of the video.

Paste the URL into an article, as below:

Publish the article.
It's really that easy!

Thanks

The original Joomla 1.5 version of this extension was built by Cory Webb and Simon Tiplady.

Support

Click here to register.
Post your questions in the YouTube Embedder support forum.

Comments

#1 Jeff mayland 2013-01-18 16:36

Finally a user friendly way!!!!!

One less reason to use a CCK.

#2 vyatka 2013-01-18 20:30

Yeah, really easy way, no need to cut fu*** videoID

#3 surfsimon 2013-01-20 12:02

Tried it on 2 2.5.8 websites, one works nicely, while the other doesn't.
Functionality is really usefull, so would love to find out what culd be the issue.

#4 vyatka 2013-01-20 14:01

not working if link paste with https//:

#5 surfsimon 2013-01-20 15:41

Thanks, that solved it!
Would be nice of course if that could be fixed in a future release...

#6 joesonne 2013-01-21 19:15

Videos use to be such a hassle. YouTube & Joomla! - very nice combination.

Technology is moving so fast. I wonder if we will all be embedding holograms in our sites sometime in the future? LOL

#7 Greendome 2013-01-22 09:06

Very neat and simple! thanks.

Anyway of improving it so that its possible to embed a playlist? This would be very useful for showing all videos from a playlist in an article.

#8 leeeric999 2013-01-23 14:54

extremely awesome!

#9 HOFF 2013-01-23 14:54

Curious if anyone has tested this to display responsively: will the plugin accept width=100% height=(blank)

#10 Zoldar 2013-01-24 00:14

This method is a good start but does sometimes fail when the youtube can not be reached by the URL, I do not know if this is a setting when uploading the video content or not. I have found that I still need to use the embed method sometimes to view the youtube video. Anyone else found this problem?

#11 rodfarrell 2013-01-24 00:26

One useful tip - if you append ?rel=0 to the end of the youtube link your visitors won't be shown links to other similar videos (usually your competitors!) at the end of your video.

#12 ArmandoMacedo 2013-01-26 01:01

I am trying to use the plugin. But I see only the url in the article page. With AllVideos, for exemple, is the same.

#13 Habigand Philippe 2013-01-28 07:28

Hello,

I'm looking to display a YouTube Video into a contact, not in an article.

Is there a way to make it possible as you done with articles ?

#14 Muhatia 2013-01-28 12:53

Not working for me :-(

#15 steve 2013-01-28 22:15

Thanks everyone for your interest. Our support staff don't monitor these comments. Please post here if you need help: ostraining.com/.../...

#16 Pilot Jim 2013-01-30 02:17

Great plugin. Displays correctly in IE9 in Windows, OSX in Mac, iOS6 in iPhone and iPad. Easy install/config. I made mistake of not killing link when I pasted url into article and got double display. Killed link in article and then single display on page. PERFECT! Thanks for a great plugin.

#17 Joe Reichert 2013-01-31 07:35

Very nice. Works perfectly.

#18 Alem 2013-02-01 08:33

you de best :-) works like a charm..no stress at all!

#19 petter 2013-02-11 19:13

don't work in my joomla 2.5

#20 Adi 2013-02-19 13:02

It works just fine with k2 and joomla 2.5.9, Thanx! Youtube was a painfull job until now :)

#21 Pradip 2013-03-07 05:43

ya its work in joomla 2.5.9 realy.......... .

#22 Gerhard 2013-03-10 12:10

Perfect! It's easy to use und works. Just what I looked for.

#23 caislas 2013-03-31 17:01

Thank you for the plug-in
It is simple and perfect! :)

#24 luespi 2013-04-09 21:45

Thanks alot indeed wonderful extention adn for free!!!

great!!!

#25 Rockbox 2013-04-10 03:30

Firstly, thanks so much for the program!!

re mobile, video isn't showing. I only tried it in one browser so it may work in other browsers. Anyone else with this problem?

#26 Mounir 2013-04-26 00:10

Wow it works. ^^

I just want to point out that it works with "http://...." links and not with "https://...."

Anyway, thank you very much.

#27 carlos b 2013-06-10 15:35

I have a problem with this plugin, when i write an url Delivery Address, on the website I get twice the same video, one below the other.

Does anyone know how to fix it?

I'm working with joomla 2.5.11 and vertrigo 2.29

thanks for all

#28 Se Nguyen 2013-06-18 10:38

@ carlosb: You just remove the hyperlink in the youtube link.

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