Your content is primarily what draws visitors to your website. But if some (or all) of your content is in video format, you probably don’t host it on your website. As video has become ubiquitous online, Takes up too much server space compared to text and even images. This is why most people prefer to host their videos elsewhere, mostly YouTube, and then embed the YouTube videos on their website.
if you have a youtube channel and you want use it to drive visitors to your website, this is what you should do. But traffic can go both ways: your website can also generate subscribers to your YouTube content. In this tutorial, we will show you How to set up YouTube subscribe button on your WordPress website. We’ll show you two ways to do this: one using YouTube’s code and the other using a plugin.
Before we get to the brass tricks on how, let’s take a moment to talk about why. if you trust yourself you want a YouTube subscribe button on your websiteGo to the how-to section you need.
Why do you really need people? Subscribe to your YouTube channel? After all, they can access all the content on your website, it’s all beautifully placed there, we hear you say. Well, that’s only true if you embed every video you make into an article or a page.
Let’s say you have a great idea for a video that’s within your capacity to produce, but no idea for a post to build around it. Why should you limit yourself instead? Letting your YouTube channel grow and sending some video viewers who probably haven’t heard of your website on their way to your content?
As you create more and more content, some may come to you as: More suitable for YouTube than your website. With the subscribe button on your website and the references to your website in your YouTube videos and video descriptions, you can strengthen the connection between the two, increasing both the number of visits to your website and the number of YouTube views.
Another benefit of YouTube subscribers is that they’re associated with viewership, which means relevance. your popular video content can rank well in searchesmore views, more subscribers and more website visits.
Finally, you can choose: Earn money independently of your YouTube channel In this case, getting more subscribers (and more views through them) will lead you to earn more through advertising.
Now, let’s get to work.
You may be provided with a YouTube subscription button in the form of code generated by Google. You can get it on the Google Developers website at: YouTube Subscribe Button page.
But you will need your YouTube channel ID to configure your button. Go to your channel page to find out what it is. The URL of the channel page looks like this:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
The string after /channel/ will be the ID of a channel. Copy.
Once on the YouTube Subscribe Button page, paste this into: Channel Name or ID domain. You can also change Order button between defaultcontaining only a red YouTube button and fully loaded, also includes the channel name and title. There are also options for toggling the button. Theme between default and darkand to show or to hide most Number of Subscribers. The code you need is Preview.
After you copy the code, you can place it wherever you want on your website. We’ll show you how to do this as part of a post, but it will work the same for a page or even a widget area.
Let’s say you want to preface an embedded video with a YouTube subscribe button and text asking your visitors to subscribe for your video content on YouTube.
Adjust the post as you want and then plus sign to add Custom HTML If you’re using the Gutenberg block editor, the block. if you are using WorkmanYou need HTML Select and if you’re using the Classic editor, simply paste the code into the body of the post in HTML mode.
Now paste your YouTube generated code into the area of the HTML block and you’re done.
Your button will be where you put it.
You can also use a plugin to add a YouTube subscribe button. The plugin we will use is Subscribe to YouTube. After installing and activating the plugin, you can add a subscribe button to any widget area of your website. To get started, go to: Appearance/Widgets From the menu on the left side of your WordPress dashboard.
on the left, Subscribe to YouTube Vehicle. By clicking on it, you will find a list of widget areas where you can place your button. Note that widget areas are theme specific, and different themes may have different (or differently named) widget areas. We show this plugin with our flagship Bridge theme.
Click on the widget and you will see a drop-down menu of available fields. We will place our button inside Header Bottom Right domain. To add a widget to a widget area, select the widget area from the menu and then Add Vehicle. You can also drag and drop a widget into a widget area.
After doing that, you will need to configure your plugin. You can find the widget on the right side of the widgets screen.
you can enter one Title, but the rest of the configuration is very similar to generating YouTube’s own code, as we did in the previous section. You need channel idYou can switch between default and fully loaded regulates and default and dark theme and you can choose to hide number of subscribers. When done, click Save.
The button you configured will appear where you placed it.
As a result
As you can see, adding a YouTube subscribe button to a WordPress website is quick and easy and opens a path to your video content for your website visitors. Whether you’re using a YouTube-generated code or a plugin, hoping your website will boost your YouTube channel, or vice versa, you can get it done in minutes.
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