Last Updated on September 21, 2023 by Christopher G Mendla
Joomla.com is a website builder from the Joomla.org folks. They have partnered with siteground to provide a hosted Joomla solution.
Joomla.com is a very limited platform. It lacks the ability to use extensions that regular Joomla sites have but it is a way to provide a low cost Joomla based site.
See Our web design page for a comparison of regular Joomla sites with Joomla.com sites.
If you want to embed a video in a regular Joomla site, you can add a youtube/video extension . This isn’t possible in Joomla.com sites because you have no ability to add extensions. I did find a workaround.
- Go to the youtube video you want to embed.
- Get the embed code for the video – Paste that into Notepad.
- Copy just the URL from the embed code.
- Create a new Wrapper module in your Joomla.com site
- Paste the URL into the wrapper module
- Give the module a custom name. e.g. video1
- Set the height of the module in pixels. (you might need to play with this. Try 500)
- Go to the article where you want the video to appear.
- Use the loadposition statement to load the video {loadposition video1]
At that point, the video should be embedded in your article.