Tutorial: Posting YouTube videos

[Craig]

We have two methods for posting inline YouTube videos.
Both methods allow you to insert the full YouTube video URL between the BBCode tags.

Go to the YouTube video you want to post.
Right click in the video player and select the "Copy video URL" selection.
In another browser tab or window, you need to check this URL with URLVoid, see: How to check links using the urlvoid website.
Then, if the URL Safety Reputation field result is GREEN, in the posting editor window, select either the ytv BBCode button or the video BBCode button
and paste the copied YouTube URL into the BBCode. Preview post and review it before submitting post.

For example:

This is what you should see in your post:

Code:

[ytv]https://youtu.be/AMr9Yx78O_w]

or

Code:

[video]https://youtu.be/AMr9Yx78O_w[/video]

phpBB [video]

Note: The video BBCode tags can also be used to post many other video services beside YouTube videos.

Also, note that the original youtube BBCode we used to have, no longer works and has been deleted.

Hope this helps.

Last edited by Craig on Sun Jan 21, 2024 6:13 pm, edited 4 times in total.
Reason: Added the additional step of checking the video URL with URLVoid