How to embed YouTube videos in the sidebar and other widget areas of WordPress
This video will be used to illustrate how to embed YouTube videos in the sidebar and other widget areas of your WordPress theme. For this video, the sidebars of the Twenty Fourteen theme will be used for simplicity.
We will first show what happens when you try and paste a YouTube link in a text widget without the YouTube plugin activated. You'll see that the actual embed does not show up until the plugin is activated.
The automatic auto-fit (aspect ratio) feature of the YouTube plugin is also illustrated. If you try this example, play the non-auto-fitted embed and you'll see that the aspect ratio is off. The plugin fixes this when you check the auto-fit option that's shown at the 01:30:00 mark.
If you haven't already, get the YouTube embed plugin for WordPress here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/youtube...