How to Embed Video or Audio into WordPress 5.0 Gutenberg
Login to your WordPress dashboard and click on Post > Add New
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Hover your mouse over to the blank page and click on Add Youtube icon.
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Paste your Video URL source e.g. Youtube url and click on Embed button
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Here is how your video appears in your WordPress post after clicking on the Publish button.
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To remove your embedded video, you just need to perform the following steps as highlighted in the screenshot.
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To embed audio, you just need to click on the " + " button and type "audio" as seen below.
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Click on either " Upload ", " Media Library " or " Insert from URL " to upload your audio file.
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Here's how your audio player appears on your blog after hitting the Publish button.
![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/0e35a1b5-ce97-4d12-a27e-1bbafd0ae641/4a916133-a255-4941-9502-d6311c1e7c82.png)
![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/0e35a1b5-ce97-4d12-a27e-1bbafd0ae641/2c5b06c0-bcf5-4cd1-8ee8-35afb0d3d60d.png)
Hover your mouse over to the blank page and click on Add Youtube icon.
![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/0e35a1b5-ce97-4d12-a27e-1bbafd0ae641/43ffa406-37fb-4701-bd67-3ed1878a1056.png)
Paste your Video URL source e.g. Youtube url and click on Embed button
![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/0e35a1b5-ce97-4d12-a27e-1bbafd0ae641/39c5f726-79a7-4c30-b018-eb2170db05eb.png)
Here is how your video appears in your WordPress post after clicking on the Publish button.
![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/0e35a1b5-ce97-4d12-a27e-1bbafd0ae641/f245b5f6-9e6f-45b8-877e-d41148b049c0.png)
To remove your embedded video, you just need to perform the following steps as highlighted in the screenshot.
![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/0e35a1b5-ce97-4d12-a27e-1bbafd0ae641/92e42b5c-ec74-48cd-bc79-fdc1f5aa0a0c.png)
To embed audio, you just need to click on the " + " button and type "audio" as seen below.
![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/0e35a1b5-ce97-4d12-a27e-1bbafd0ae641/cc3a338a-0c86-47e1-b295-c9c55f97afb1.png)
Click on either " Upload ", " Media Library " or " Insert from URL " to upload your audio file.
![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/0e35a1b5-ce97-4d12-a27e-1bbafd0ae641/d0465e20-bba5-42d8-a831-244807d91289.png)
Here's how your audio player appears on your blog after hitting the Publish button.
![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/0e35a1b5-ce97-4d12-a27e-1bbafd0ae641/4a916133-a255-4941-9502-d6311c1e7c82.png)
Updated on: 04/01/2019
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