Display your video at a perfect size

All web pages have different pages and features and often these mean you wish to customize the display size of the video that you want to load into your site.

Luckily YouTube enables this with ease, so:

Open your Video in YouTube
Click the Share > Embed option
Click Show More
In the video size drop-down menu, select custom size
Enter the desired width of the video player.
Note – YouTube will automatically set the height to resize the video (to maintain its ratio) OR click Video Size to set the length and width, choosing from a number of predefined sizes
You are also able to select the “end image” or the “follow on video” from this area
Copy the code
Log in to your wordpress site and locate the desired post/page to embed the YouTube video
From the box that appears, click the tab in the top right – “Text”
Paste the code that yuo copy from youtube into the HTML code box that appears .
Click Update in (or Publish if it’s a new page/post that’s in draft mode)