Title: Adding Video into the Theme Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Adding Video into the Theme * [kaffe_x](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaffe_x/) * (@kaffe_x) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-video-into-the-theme/) * I want to embed a video of the night sky into my theme and I can’t seem to get that to happen. I don’t want to use plugins, unless that’s the only solution. I prefer to use code, is there a way to embed video into a .php page?? * Thanks Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 15 total) * [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/) * (@swansonphotos) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-video-into-the-theme/#post-2936780) * Using [this tutorial](http://bavotasan.com/2011/shortcode-for-html5-video-tag-in-wordpress/), create the HTML5 Video Shortcode * Include now in your page template per this example: * ```
``` * Of course, you need to upload the video…and ensure your server can deliver the bandwidth required… * Thread Starter [kaffe_x](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaffe_x/) * (@kaffe_x) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-video-into-the-theme/#post-2936783) * okay thanks I’ll try this. * Thread Starter [kaffe_x](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaffe_x/) * (@kaffe_x) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-video-into-the-theme/#post-2936796) * do I edit this part in the code? [video5_shortcode_per_instructions_here] * Thread Starter [kaffe_x](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaffe_x/) * (@kaffe_x) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-video-into-the-theme/#post-2936797) * It didn’t work? It said that the video format wasn’t supported. It was a .mp4 * [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * (@anevins) * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-video-into-the-theme/#post-2936798) * Upload your video to youtube * then find a tutorial how to link youtube videos into your page * Thread Starter [kaffe_x](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaffe_x/) * (@kaffe_x) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-video-into-the-theme/#post-2936800) * I really don’t want to use a third party website if I can do it on my own server.. * [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * (@anevins) * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-video-into-the-theme/#post-2936802) * This tutorial shows mp4 working… [http://www.w3schools.com/html5/html5_video.asp](http://www.w3schools.com/html5/html5_video.asp) * Maybe try flash after? * [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/) * (@swansonphotos) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-video-into-the-theme/#post-2936804) * > do I edit this part in the code? [video5_shortcode_per_instructions_here] * Yes, per the instructions in first link above… * Would be something like: * ``` [video5 src="http://your-site/videos/your-video.mp4" width="720" height="480"] ``` * Modify this to your needs and you can also [add additional optional attributes](http://www.w3schools.com/html5/tag_video.asp) * Thread Starter [kaffe_x](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaffe_x/) * (@kaffe_x) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-video-into-the-theme/#post-2936805) * I did what you told me to do and I get this: [http://kglyphics.com/](http://kglyphics.com/) * [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/) * (@swansonphotos) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-video-into-the-theme/#post-2936808) * Again, you can add additional optional attributes, for example, autoplay – I would make it smaller (to save bandwidth)… * Final note…older browsers will not see this as they are not html5, so you could add a conditional and link just them to a flash video… * Thread Starter [kaffe_x](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaffe_x/) * (@kaffe_x) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-video-into-the-theme/#post-2936809) * Its not working? * [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/) * (@swansonphotos) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-video-into-the-theme/#post-2936831) * Yes, it worked. * Thread Starter [kaffe_x](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaffe_x/) * (@kaffe_x) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-video-into-the-theme/#post-2936881) * I’m seeing “Video format or MiME type is not supported” I’m using firefox. * [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/) * (@swansonphotos) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-video-into-the-theme/#post-2936884) * That is correct for h264 video in FF, the workaround is as I noted above, provide an additional video format that will play in FF and older browsers and set up a conditional to test for user agent strings. * [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:HTML5video](http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:HTML5video) * This [post](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-conditional-statement-for-user-agent-browser?replies=13) should help also. * [This too](http://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/06/21/detect-a-visitors-browser-in-wordpress/) * WordPress supports testing for the user agent string(s) * Thread Starter [kaffe_x](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaffe_x/) * (@kaffe_x) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-video-into-the-theme/#post-2936915) * Thanks, I’ll look into this. * Sorry if you’ve stated it before, I’m relatively new to the wordpress code so it may have been a bit unclear for me earlier. 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