Topics: Wordpress. If you’ve tried to put video on a Wordpress powered site, you’ll know it’s a little tricky to make it all work. Afterall, you’ll need to encode the video, upload it somewhere, then embed a player into your Wordpress post. Let’s take a look at a few ways you can go about putting video onto your Wordpress site.
First up let’s deal with the video itself. We’re going to assume you’ve got the video ready to go and simply need to get it online. By far the path of least resistance is to upload it to one of the many video sharing sites. Pick one and upload your video. YouTube and Viddler are two sites where you can park your video.
Now that you’ve uploaded your video, you’ll need to grab the embed code for the video. Select all then copy (Ctrl-C) the embed code. As examples, here’s where you’ll find the embed code for YouTube:
And for the video embed code for Viddler:
When you paste the embed code into Wordpress, there’s one simple thing you need to do: remove the last OBJECT tag and you should be good to go.
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First up let’s deal with the video itself. We’re going to assume you’ve got the video ready to go and simply need to get it online. By far the path of least resistance is to upload it to one of the many video sharing sites. Pick one and upload your video. YouTube and Viddler are two sites where you can park your video.
Now that you’ve uploaded your video, you’ll need to grab the embed code for the video. Select all then copy (Ctrl-C) the embed code. As examples, here’s where you’ll find the embed code for YouTube:
And for the video embed code for Viddler:
When you paste the embed code into Wordpress, there’s one simple thing you need to do: remove the last OBJECT tag and you should be good to go.
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