PLAYERS:
https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/why-you-should-never-upload-a-video-to-wordpress/
https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/x-best-youtube-video-gallery-plugins-for-wordpress/
https://www.wp101.com/tutorial/the-wordpress-editor/
https://filmora.com
WP-VIDEO
has a video review board –
https://make.wordpress.org/tv/handbook/video-editing/video-editor/
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Videos
Videos are a great way to enhance your blog posts. We use videos all the time on the WordPress.com News blog and in our Support documentation. So can you.
If you want to upload and host your video files on your blog, you can do that with VideoPress, which is included with WordPress.com Premium, WordPress.com Business and WordPress.com eCommerce plans. Full instructions for adding and playing your videos can be found on the VideoPress support page.
You can also embed videos from many video services on your WordPress.com blog for free. While videos from many popular services will embed automatically by simply placing a link to the video in your post or page, we also have detailed help for a number of video sites:
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YouTube
Vimeo
Facebook
Flickr
Hulu
Instagram
Animoto
DailyMotion
Educreations
SproutVideo
The Internet Archive
TED Talks
Twitch.tv
Ustream.tv
Viddler
Vine
Wistia
You can also add a video to the sidebar or footer of your website using a Video Widget.
Here is a list of white-listed video services for auto embeds in WordPres – xxx Friendly??:
Amazon
Animoto
Cloudup
CollegeHumor
Crowdsignal
Dailymotion
Facebook
Flickr
Hulu
Imgur
Instagram
Issuu
Kickstarter
Meetup.com
Mixcloud
Reddit
ReverbNation
Screencast
Scribd
Slideshare
SmugMug
Someecards
SoundCloud
Speaker Deck
Spotify
TED
Tumblr
Twitter
VideoPress
Vimeo
WordPress.tv
YouTube
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Why can’t I upload the videos to WordPress?
Well you can, but we do not recommend you to do so.
Most small blogs use shared WordPress hosting accounts, and videos can take up a lot of server resources. If your video got tons of traffic, then your website is more likely to crash.
Secondly, you are missing out the traffic from YouTube users.
YouTube is not only the biggest video hosting site, but it is also the world’s second most popular search engine, and the second most popular social network right after Facebook.
If you don’t want to upload your videos to YouTube, then you can try Vimeo or DailyMotion. See our comparison of YouTube vs Vimeo to see which platform is better for your needs.
For more on this topic, take a look at our article on why you should never upload a video to WordPress.
WordPress Video Embed Plugins
By default, you don’t need to use a plugin to embed videos in WordPress. However, you may want to use plugins to improve video viewing experience on your website.
Following are a few plugins that you may want to try.
1. YouTube Subscribe Bar
YouTube Subscribe Bar in action
YouTube Subscribe Bar shows a YouTube subscribe button below your YouTube video embeds in WordPress. It also fetches your YouTube subscriber count to add social proof and encourage more users to subscribe.
We first created it to promote WPBeginner’s YouTube channel on this website. Many of our users asked us to share how we did this, so we decided to release it as a free plugin.
2. Envira Gallery
A video gallery in WordPress
By default, WordPress does not come with embedded video gallery feature. If you wanted to show a video gallery on a page, then you’ll need a plugin to do that.
Envira Gallery is one of the best photo gallery plugins for WordPress. It also comes with a videos addon which allows you to create beautiful video galleries with lightbox popup support.
3. Lazy Load for Videos
Lazy load videos in WordPress
Video embeds load scripts from external websites, which has a small impact on page load speed and performance.
Lazy Load for Videos solves this problem by only loading the video image on page load. It loads embed code only when the user clicks on the play button. See our tutorial on how to add lazy load for videos in WordPress.
We hope this article helped you learn how to easily embed videos in WordPress blog posts. You may also want to see our list of the must have WordPress plugins for all websites.
If you liked this article, then please subscribe to our YouTube Channel for WordPress video tutorials. You can also find us on Twitter and Facebook.
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How to Correctly Host Videos on Your WordPress Site
If you’re a video publisher, the most natural thing to do is upload your videos on Youtube and share them on social media or your personal site. However, if you want full control of your video content, then consider uploading all your videos on your WordPress site.
Fair warning: the road to hosting your own videos is an arduous one. It is simpler to just upload the videos on Youtube or any video hosting site so you can focus on distributing the content to your target audience. But you’re still hellbent on hosting your videos from your site, then below are the steps you need to take.
Choose a reliable hosting
Since your videos will take up bulk of your hosting space, you need to subscribe to a tried and tested hosting provider that will offer you the power and support to keep your videos available to your audience. While we’re on the topic of using WordPress, you should strongly consider any of the WordPress hosting services featured in this post.
A dedicated hosting for WordPress affords you more security and makes it easier for you to manage your backend. More importantly, WordPress hosting gives you more power and juice to handle the videos you will upload.
Select a WordPress video hosting plugin
To feature videos on your posts and pages conveniently, you must use a self-hosted video plugin.
There are two plugins that rise to the top of the heap: VideoPress and Easy Video Player.
VideoPress is part of the JetPack plugin developed by Automattic, the same makers of WordPress. Aside from being lightweight and responsive, videos that run through VideoPress are unbranded and don’t have annoying ads showing on them. Also, you can track and measure the views of your videos to see which ones are attracting the most views and which ones aren’t.
Easy Video Player works the same way, but it also enables you to embed videos that you did not host on your site. Embedding videos using this plugin allows you to inject different features onto
them such as autoplay, loop, muted enabled, and a whole lot more.
Reencode compress your videos
When uploading a video on Youtube, you can play it on any browser or device without any hassle. However, when hosting it on your site, you will run into issues getting the video to work properly. If you uploaded a single format for your video and it doesn’t play on a specific browser or device, it’s because the format is not supported by any of these.
Therefore, you need to encode your videos to different formats (MP4, Ogg, WebM, etc.) to ensure that the video will work regardless of the device and browser used to view it. If you have no idea on how to convert videos, then this quick guide at How-To Geek will show you how it’s done using the HandBrake software.
Also, consider the location of your target audience. If they live away from where your hosting servers are located, then they may find it difficult to view your videos due to lag time. To counter this problem, you need to compress your videos by decreasing their file sizes without compromising quality. Assuming that you’ve downloaded Handbrake already, here’s another nifty guide, this time from Engage Media, on how to compress your videos using the same tool.
Test and measure video performance
Once you have set up all the tools needed to upload and play your videos from your site, you need to see for yourself if the videos do play smoothly on any device or browser before launching them to the public. Are your videos in different formats playing on all platforms? Is the quality of the videos up to par or do they need improvement? Also, you need to analyze how your chosen plugin shows the videos to your visitors. Does it improve the user experience?
You need to iron out the kinks before you unleash a full promotion strategy on each of them so your videos will have a better impression to your audience.
Prevent piracy
If you want to keep your videos within your site and not let video sharing sites get their hands on them, then you need to protect your videos from piracy. This is important for businesses who are running a premium membership site and use videos to share sensitive information.
Since you are already using WordPress, you can use S3Flowshield, a WordPress plugin that generates encrypted dynamic keys to protect your content on the cloud from thieves. However, you should test this tool first before settling with it because it could cause problems with your videos playing on browsers.
Wrapping it up
Hosting videos on your WordPress site is not an easy task. You need to be detail-oriented to ensure that the videos are working properly on your site and that they are protected at all times. This quick guide should help provide the way on how you can host videos and show them on your site so you won’t have to rely on third-party video sharing sites again.