I just upgraded to Wordpress 3.5, and one cool feature seems to be that if you copy a Youtube URL directly from the browser and paste into a singles post, the video automatically embeds!
However, I'm having trouble figuring out why the following (pasted in a standard post) doesn't work to adjust the dimensions of the embed: [embed width="20" height="106"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjoxX5dXM8g[/embed]
I searched around Stackoverflow, and it seems like people were saying that you could adjust the dimensions in Settings > Media, but that feature has been deprecated. Another person blogging at http://shailan.com/2154/change-wordpress-default-embed-size-using-filters/ suggested adding a filter
function mycustom_embed_defaults($embed_size){
if( is_single() ){ // If displaying a single post
$embed_size['width'] = 586; // Adjust values to your needs
$embed_size['height'] = 500;
}
return $embed_size; // Return new size
}
add_filter('embed_defaults', 'mycustom_embed_defaults');
... but after adding this to functions.php and changing the width and height to 100 both, I didn't see a difference in the post preview.
Right now I'm still trying to figure out how to reset the default dimensions of a youtube URL pasted into a Wordpress post without resorting to pasting in the entire iframe, i.e.
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/IjoxX5dXM8g" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>