Adding a YouTube video to a Post

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SailBlogs has the ability to support adding YouTube videos into a post. However, the Blog Manager will not allow you to add an object tag to a post. Instead you must add a special code to your post that SailBlogs will recognize.

In the blog post editor, there is a shortcut button that looks like the YouTube icon right above the post body field that will allow you to put in the URL to the YouTube video. Clicking this icon will open a dialog box requesting the URL of the YouTube video. The system will convert this code into the necessary code for the blog post (as detailed below) and insert it into the body field at the cursor.

If you need to place the code in manually, the following section describes the correct format to place in the blog entry.

The standard YouTube URL looks like the following:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf5szwz6Qzc

To add this video into a SailBlogs blog post, enter the following code into the body:

[%youtube*Cf5szwz6Qzc%v]

This feature is available to all SailBlogs members.