Change the default video URL in a post to shortcode format

I want to add video from youtube/vimeo to my post.Whenever i add a video to my post ,there will display a link like in my admin(Add new post ),and in the front end it will display the video.But the problem is, i want to show the video like a shortcode example [video url=””][/video]in the place of original video.That is show the shortcode like above instead of the video in front end.How can it possible.Please help me.

I want to add video from youtube/vimeo to my post.Whenever i add a video to my post ,there will display a link like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsUXAEzaC3Q in my admin(Add new post ),and in the front end it will display the video.But the problem is, i want to show the video like a shortcode example [video url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsUXAEzaC3Q”][/video]in the place of original video.That is show the shortcode like above instead of the video in front end.How can it possible.Please help me.

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• Not sure I understand you correctly … do you mean Show shortcode without executing it? – fuxia ♦ Commented Apr 23, 2013 at 8:00
• when click on the shortcode it should display the video. – MindZ Commented Apr 23, 2013 at 8:13
• Youtube is already supported as part of the embed functionality along with various other popular video sites. – t31os Commented Apr 23, 2013 at 8:20

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Add the following code at the end of the functions.php file and you have to replace the built-in shortcode.

function video_shortcode($atts) {
    // Extract the URL from the shortcode attributes
    $url = isset($atts['url']) ? esc_url($atts['url']) : '';

    // Check if a valid URL is provided
    if ($url) {
        // Extract the video ID from the YouTube URL
    $video_id = '';
    parse_str(parse_url($url, PHP_URL_QUERY), $query_params);
    if (isset($query_params['v'])) {
        $video_id = $query_params['v'];
    }

    // If video ID found, generate the iframe code for embedding YouTube video
    if ($video_id) {
        $iframe_code = '<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/' . $video_id . '" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>';
        return $iframe_code;
    }
    }

    // If no valid URL is provided, return an empty string
    return '';
}
add_shortcode('custom_video', 'video_shortcode');

To render the shortcode output with a clickable link while it still looks like a shortcode, you have to replace the built-in shortcode:

add_shortcode( 'video', 'wpse_96840_literal_video' );

function wpse_96840_literal_video( $atts )
{
    $url = $atts['url'];

    return '<code>'
        . sprintf( '[video url="<a href=\"%1$s\">%1$s</a>"][/video]', $url )
        . '</code>';
}

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