Thursday, April 9, 2009 - Embeding a Video into a RealTown Blog Entry

Recently we've been asked how to embed a video in a RealTown blog entry. It IS possible! ;)

When you go to YouTube or a similar video site, you are usually provided 'Embed Code' which will allow you to put the video on your website, blog, or pretty much any online post. This can be done with a simple copy and paste of that code. If the code isn't inserted properly, or if the site you are posting to doesn't allow code, your video won't show up properly, it might end up looking like this:



That's probably not what you want to display to the world ;)

If you want to add video to your RealTown blog entry, you need to embed the code directly into the source for your blog entry. You can do this by clicking the 'Source' button in the upper left corner of your editing window when you are typing out your blog entry.

First, go to your RealTown blog and create a new entry, or edit an existing entry.
Next, type out your entry just as you normally would. When you are ready to insert your video you might want to hit 'Enter' a few times so your video has a new line instead of showing up in a sentence.
Click the 'Source' button in your Entry Editor.
You will be brought to the source for your entry. You will see the text of your entry surrounded by code.
Find the point where you left off, you will notice a few
tags, these are basically where you hit the 'Enter' key, they are page breaks in HTML code. Place your entry after the desired text and one or two of these page breaks and click your cursor where you want to embed the video.
Paste in the code.


When you are done, you should see the box where your video will be within the entry. If you need to move it down some just hit 'Enter' above or below it as you normally would.

There are *some* video sources that may not be compatible with your blog. To be extra safe, check the box in the bottom of your entry editor that reads Filter this entry's HTML using Tidy. Filtering the HTML may help fix broken HTML problems. If the code is compatible with RealTown's blogs, the video will display once you post your entry given that the viewer has the proper plug-ins installed.

It's always a good idea to view the public side of your entry to be safe.

Questions? Comments? Concerns? E-Mail our Customer Service Team at CustomerService@RealTown.com