Embed The Video
By Rob Safuto on Aug 30, 2006 in Social Media, Video Blogging, WordPress | Tags: Plugins , Video , Video Blogging , WordPress
One thing I love about WordPress is the fact that there always seems to be a plugin available for every need I can think of.
I recently started a project that requires me to embed a link to the video in a post so that people would have the option of viewing videos (at a 640×480 resolution) or downloading the file.
All of the popular video hosting services (YouTube, Google Video, Blip TV) allow you to embed flash video into a post via a snippet of code, but they don’t do 640×480 and make it easy to link to a pop up window. For this project I have the desire to host the video on my own server anyway.
So I decided to search out some WordPress plugins to help me with my problem. I found a few over at WP-Plugins.net that looked promising. Only one really game me what I was looking for.
Embed The Video is a WordPress plugin that allows you to link to a video post using a thumbnail image that links to a pop up window. Just enter the link to your video, the video size and link to the thumbnail image in a space below the normal post entry field in WordPress.
Then just drop the tag ‘[etv]‘ into the post and save. The thumbnail appears with a download link below the image. When the thumbnail image is clicked the video plays in a pop up window. Very nice!
See an example of how this works here.
[tags]Social Media, Video Blogging, Wordpress, Plugins, Video[/tags]
mike dunn | Aug 31, 2006 | Reply
cool rob - thanks…
you’ve become my wordpress r&d unit - what i don’t get to seems to appear on your radar magically, very cool
Rob Safuto | Aug 31, 2006 | Reply
You’re welcome Mike. That’s the way it should work. I spend quite a bit of time researching tools to optimize my WordPress experience so I’m glad to share the things that work for me.
Devlon | Sep 5, 2006 | Reply
Hi Rob,
Thanks for trying out the plugin, glad it’s working for you. If you’ve got any feature ideas, or tweaks let me know.