Do you want to get more subscribers on your YouTube channel? Having a subscribe button on your blog makes it easy for your visitors to find your videos and subscribe to your channel. In this article, we will show you how to add a YouTube subscribe button in WordPress.
Method 1: Manually Adding YouTube Subscribe Button Code
The first thing you need to do is visit the YouTube subscribe button page on the Google Developer’s website.
On this page, you will need to enter your YouTube channel’s name, select a layout, theme, and subscriber count option. It will display a live preview of how your button will look on the website. Once you are satisfied, simply scroll down to copy the embed code.
Next, you need to login to the WordPress admin area of your site and go to Appearance » Widgets. There you will need to drag and drop a text widget to your widget area, and paste the YouTube subscribe button code inside the widget.
Once you are done, don’t forget to save your changes and visit your website to see the YouTube subscribe button in action.
Method 2: Using Plugin to Add a YouTube Subscribe Bar
Another way to add a YouTube subscribe button on your website is by adding it below every YouTube video on your site. This offers additional exposure and can help you significantly increase your subscribers.
First you need to install and activate the YouTube Subscribe Bar plugin.
Upon activating the plugin, you need to go to Settings » YouTube Subscribe Bar to add your YouTube channel ID. You will also need to style the button layout, choose a button theme, and show subscribers count.
The YouTube subscribe bar plugin allows you to add some text before the button and edit its styling. You can use this area to add a call to action like “Subscribe to My Channel”.
Once you are done, make sure to click on the Save Changes button to save your settings.
This plugin will automatically display your YouTube Subscribe bar below every YouTube video on your site. The YouTube Subscribe bar will appear on the videos from your channel and third-party channels, so you can share useful video content on your site and get more subscribers on your YouTube channel.
Note: The YouTube subscribe bar plugin only works with oEmbed videos. It will not work with videos embedded via iFrame.
We hope this article helped you add the YouTube subscribe button in WordPress. You may also want to check out our guide on how to track user engagement on your WordPress site.
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Any plans to add integration with iframe? I have hundreds of YouTube videos embedded on my various posts and all are done by just copying the code off the YouTube embed option which is iframe. As much as I love this idea, it’s not worth it to me to go back re-code hundreds of videos.
Hi Jeff,
At the moment there are no plans to add integration with iframe.
I have the latest version of WordPress installed. First version works ok but the 2nd version, with bar below the video is not working.
This is great but I am unable to get your plugin to work. I set the first option up in my footer widget. Thank you
Hi Mary,
Can you please share a link or screenshot so that we can take a look?
I got Method 1 to work, but Method 2 is not working. I use the same ID as I did in the first method. I also used the YouTube URL for the blog article. Not sure why it’s not working.
Hi Bakari,
The second method will only work if you embed a video in your blog post and use oEmbed.
Would love to use this, but for some reason the Google button is showing an “error” ????
Hey Fee,
Can you please share a link or screenshot so that we can take a look?
Method 1 works great, I put ID in, as name did not work. Thank you for this.
This was exactly what I needed.
How to add Subscribe Button Like WPbeginner does??????
it worked thanks.
Hi,
Can you tell me how to add subscribe to my channel button below every video like you have in your all posts?
I found the plugin but it is not updated for long time. can you tell me way to do it.
Thanks for this,hoever when i use the first method,it says error. I dont know why it won’t accept my youtube channel name
I too got the error message using my channel name. It worked after inputting my ID instead, which I copied from the address bar via desktop.
Method 1 is very easy, Great. Thank you very much.
But how I add YT subscription button below video
I think using a proper Plugin is quite suitable to show up YouTube subscribe button to our website or blog. There are many reasons why most of the people choose WordPress over different platforms and use of plugins is one of them. Thanks for letting us know about this Plugin.
The plugin says it is only compatible up to 3.2.1. and hasn’t been updated for over a year.
We tested the plugin with WP 4.0.1 and it worked fine so you can safely install the plugin. Please note that despite the fact that a plugin hasn’t been tested with the latest version of WordPress does not mean that it does not work with the latest version. It just means that the plugin author didn’t update their plugin’s readme file to reflect this change. This is a common issue, and we wish plugin authors would at least update their readme files to reflect this.