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How to Add Video to a Blog Post in Contentful

Integrating videos into your blog posts can significantly enhance the engagement and user experience of your content. Contentful, a powerful headless CMS, provides a flexible way to manage your content and effortlessly add videos to your blog posts. In this blog post, we will guide you through the process of embedding videos in your blog posts using Contentful. Gen Ai

Adding Videos to Your Posts

Want to add videos to your blog posts? You can do that easily using the Video Wrapper content type. It lets you choose from three video sources:

  • YouTube:

    Enter the URL of the YouTube video you want to embed.

  • Wistia:

    If you have a Wistia account,

    provide the URL of your Wistia video.

  • Contentful:

    If your video is uploaded to your Contentful space,

    select "Contentful" as the source and choose the specific video asset.

Examples:

  • Adding a video from Contentful:

    Here's how to add a video stored in your Contentful space using the Video Wrapper.


  • Adding a YouTube video: Here's how to embed a YouTube video using the Video Wrapper.