The way WordPress handles Youtube embeds is awesome - just copy-and-paste the link into the editor. Unfortunately, when echoing custom fields in a theme, it isn't that easy. Thanks to Convoy for this fix:_e( wp_oembed_get( get_field( 'youtube_link' ) ) );NOTE: My example, uses Advanced Custom Fields' "get_field" function. You could replace get_field( 'youtube_link' ) with get_post_meta().
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