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How to Add YouTube Thumbnails
There are numerous plugins to embed videos into your page, or you can get the HTML to embed a video directly from YouTube. And this can be quite useful, when you want to play a video in your page–typically when the page or post revolves around the video. However, there are times when you just want an image thumbnail linking to the video, instead of embedding the video directly. This can be for a number of reasons: you only want to use a small area for the video–large enough for a thumbnail, but too small to play the...
read moreWhy is WordPress Closing My Paragraph Tags When It Shouldn’t?
Have you ever noticed your CSS acting strangely, and then discovered upon investigating that your paragraph tags did not seem to be acting correctly–that even though you properly close your paragraph tags, WordPress just closes your tags wherever it wants to? You can see this problem simply illustrated below. Here, in HTML mode I have entered a few lines of HTML. I have styled a p tag with a border, and included some words and an unordered list before closing the p tag. What you actually see is that the border only encloses one line. If...
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