Adding the YouTube Subscribe Button on Your WordPress Website
YouTube is without doubt the largest video sharing platform on the Internet. You can find virtually anything you need from educative videos to entertainment and personal videos. If you have a YouTube channel, you want to get as many subscribers as possible. This is the only way the channel will make more sense more so when promoting your products and services. With that being said, it is good to note that you can add the YouTube subscribe button on WordPress to increase subscriptions. This post takes a look at the methods you can use to add the YouTube subscribe button.
Manually add
It is easy to add the subscribe button manually to your WordPress website. To do this, you need to visit YouTube subscribe button page on Google Developer’s site. Once you are here, enter the name of your YouTube channel; pick a layout, theme and then the subscriber count option. You will get a live preview of the button. If satisfied, scroll down and copy the embed code.
The next step is to go to your WordPress admin area then Appearance >> Widgets. Drag and drop the text widget to the desired position on your site then paste the copied YouTube embed code. Save the changes and you are done.
Using plugins
With this method, you will need to install the appropriate plugin. Install the YouTube Subscriber Bar plugin and activate it. Go to Settings >> YouTube Subscribe Bar and add your YouTube channel ID. Don’t forget to style the button to your liking. The plugin allows you to add text prior to adding the button and editing the button style. You can use this option to add a Call-to-Action for example ‘Subscribe to My Channel’. Save the changes.
The plugin displays the YouTube subscribe bar automatically below all YouTube videos on your WordPress website. The Subscribe button will also appear on the third-party YouTube videos.
As a side note, it is good to note that the YouTube Subscribe bar plugin only works with the oEmbed videos. It doesn’t work with the videos that you have embedded with iFrame.
There are so many benefits that come with adding the YouTube subscribe button on your WordPress website. The main benefit is the fact that more of your visitors will learn of your YouTube channel and you will notice more views and shares of your videos. Videos are a great way of increasing user engagement and the use of the subscribe button will draw attention to them.