Embedding in the text widget is the same way you’d do it in a post. You can either paste in the HTML, or you can use my plugin’s shortcodes.
Hello Alex, thank you for the respond. I appricate it. Now one last question, how do i manage the size of the videos in the sidebar?
They seem to inherit the size from the post settings which is far to large for the sidebar, and i do want to maintain large videos in my posts.
Thanks in advance!
Cheers
Snake
See Settings -> Video Quicktags -> Help
[youtube width="123" height="456"]...
Hello Alex,
First of all, your video plugin is the best… great job! Embedding videos from youtube on pages, posts, and sidebar is so easy and effective.
I only have one issue. If I want to include an .MP4 video file hosted on my site on a post, page or sidebar with code like this:
[videofile width=”480″ height=”320″]http://www.exitolgnprosperity.com/videos/bienvenido_video.mp4[/videofile]
The video doesn’t show up. I only see a blank space where the video is supposed to be.
I thought it would be a conflict with other plug in so after some testing I tried with a brand new wp installation without additional plugins but it didn’t work.
I have searched for a solution everywhere before posting here but to no avail.
I have tried this.
..and my header.php file has the <?php wp_head(); ?> tag.
Code is here.
<!– BEGIN html head –>
<head profile=”http://gmpg.org/xfn/11″>
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”<?php bloginfo(‘html_type’); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo(‘charset’); ?>” />
<title><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?> <?php wp_title(); ?></title>
<?php if (function_exists(‘wp_enqueue_script’) && function_exists(‘is_singular’)) : ?>
<?php if ( is_singular() ) wp_enqueue_script( ‘comment-reply’ ); ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_url’); ?>” />
<!–[if lte IE 6]>
<link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_url’); ?>/ie.css” />
<![endif]–>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_url’); ?>/js/jquery-1.3.2.min.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_url’); ?>/js/jquery.cycle.all.min.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_url’); ?>/js/scripts.js”></script>
<?php wp_head(); ?>
</head>
<!– END html head –>
I have a test page here
I noticed that when using Google Chrome the video plays with Quicktime, not in Firefox though..
I would really appreciate your help on this.
Carlos
I strongly recommend using [flv] instead of the hugely unreliable [videofile] method for embedding MP4 videos.
Embedding videos using anything but Flash in pre-HTML5 content is a huge pain and rarely works in all browsers. It was a mistake on my part to even add non-Flash support.
I will however be adding support HTML5’s <video> tag in the future.
That works great…
Thank you for the fast response… 🙂
Hi Alex,
I have just come by this plugin and would appreciate a few clarifications. I am new to WP, so I am sorry if my questions comes as a bit elementary.
1. Your blog losted about 11 or more video sources which this plug in supports. But in post edit mode, I see only 5 icons/buttons for these sites. How do I find the rest if the source site is not among the 5 indicated on the edit menu?
2. The post here don’t seem to me like it has a beginning which I can follow, so if you do not mind to help out, be cause in the response that could have helped all you said was to use the “plugin’s shortcodes”
I am referring to getting a video on the SideBar.
When I finished the plugin install, it did not provide a widget I coulod drag over. So kindly list what steps to follow to get a video on the side, please also include how to indicate the size.
I already tried the text box (before plugin install) 2 days ago by pasting the video link in there, the result was not a video but just the plain code.
So please in your reply, do not assume anything, kindly provide steps I can follow. – Thank You.
1. Settings -> Video Quicktags. Check the boxes you want.
2. Use the normal text widget and the shortcodes that the buttons in the post editor create. For example:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQgmdHzqtqA[/youtube]
The documentation says this plugin allows the creation of youtube playlists, but i don’t see any directions on how to do it.
Can anyone help me out?
