You have a YouTube video embedded on a free WordPress.com blog. You want the video to skip all the tedious intro fluff and go to a specific juicy morsel. Even though the WordPress software strips out the copy-&-paste embed code. Once you’ve saved a WordPress.com post the YouTube embed ends up looking like this…

So just add…



…to the end of the line, and before the final “]”. Or just after the “fs=1” bit, if you spot WordPress moving it somewhere else in the line.

15 = the number of seconds to skip. You can change this to any number of seconds. 120 would tell YouTube to start the video two minutes in, for instance.