How to change the width of an automatic WordPress embed
One of the superb things about WordPress is that it will automatically convert YouTube URLs into embeds (as well as URLs pointing to Vimeo, Flickr, Hulu etc.)
For example, the video you see embedded on this post was supplied from within the WordPress post editor like this:
How to set the size of automatic embeds for your entire WordPress site:
Login as the WordPress admin and go to Settings: Media. There you’ll see boxes for setting your maximum embed height and width. This will change the width of your embeds throughout your whole site. It’s retroactive so if you change theses settings, they’ll impact embeds even on posts and pages you authored before making the update.
Login as admin, look for Settings: Media
How to change the size for an individual embed:
If you need to make an embed bigger or smaller for a particular page or post, you can override the global media settings by adding a little code to your post, like this:
[embed width="390" height="300"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYZ[/embed]
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Joe sam | Web Design Company posted on August 24, 2012:
WordPress is really the great cms. Thanks for sharing the tutorial it really helps to change the width for embeds with in it .
izzie posted on April 7, 2013:
Hello, I’ve tried this but it just won’t work for me. I’ve spent 2 days now figuring out how to make the youtube video’s smaller on my blog, but nothing seems to work and they take up the whole screen; what the heck am i doing wrong? It’s so frustrating!!!