In Part One of this series, I talked about why leveraging the power of video with your WordPress site is something you should do. In Part Two, I’m going to share some great tools for doing this.
Please note: The following recommendations involve several plugins developed especially for video producers by the Show in a Box project, of which, I am a member. This should in no way discount the usefulness of these plugins as they are all completely free to use, and are provided with the goal of helping video producers and bloggers harness the power of video and helping to display their video in a unique way.
Recent Videos
The VideoPress Recent Videos Wordpress Plugin allows publishers, like you, to add recent videos to your posts.
VideoPress Recent Videos needs vPIP or Video Wrangler (or another WordPress plugin that implements the WordPress Video API).
Related Videos
The VideoPress Related Videos Wordpress Plugin allows publishers, like you, to add related videos to your posts. (Each post gets its own set of related videos.)
The VideoPress Video Archive Wordpress Plugin allows publishers, like you, to add a Video Archive (with thumbnails and everything… instead of the default text archive).
VideoPress Recent Videos needs vPIP or Video Wrangler (or another WordPress plugin that implements the WordPress Video API).
Also, VideoPress Video Archive supports hAtom.
Video Embed
The VideoPress Video Embed Wordpress Plugin allows publishers, like you, to add place on the page where code is made available, to users, to embed your video on other webpages.
Video Feeds
The VideoPress Video Feeds Wordpress Plugin allows publishers, like you, to add a Video Feeds.
VideoPress Video Feeds works with vPIP.
VideoPress Video Feeds supports Media RSS, Atomic RSS, SMIL, and Video RSS.
WP-Video
The VideoPress WP-Video Wordpress Plugin allows publishers, like you, to add basic video functionality to WordPress and to boost the speed of how WordPress deals with video. This plugin can be configured by going to Options → Videos. Also the index of videos it creates can be managed from Manage → Videos.
vPIP
vPIP (videos Playing In Place) is the only player in the world that dynamically embeds a video into your web page after the viewers click their preferred video format link. The link can be a text or image link.
This results in a web page that loads quickly with only image and text links. When the viewer clicks one of the links pointing to a video, it’s replaced with the embedded video. Clicking on another vPIP link closes the prior embedded video and opens the new one clicked.
vPIP Feeds Widget
The vPIP feeds widget allows you to generate unique feeds for each video format you want to distribute. Automatically, you’ll have unique feeds available based on the type of videos you publish (Flash, Quicktime, Windows Media, Ogg, etc.) You can also setup advanced criteria for feeds.
What is your favorite WordPress video plugin?
82 Comments
Great post, I especially like the point that you didnt take the easy road that so many bloggers do, by simply saying “if you want some video, embed a youtube flick”.
You’ve outlined new ways I had no idea about and thanks to you I can now have a youtube-free blog video
Thanks,
Dr Andrew
Great post.
Personally, I didn’t know until know that Wordpress could be so accommodating over Video … anything that can keep a visitor on-page is something to pay attention to.
Thanks.
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Good post. I will open a video blog and this is helpful
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Never knew there were that many plugin options. Thanks!
Great post. Thank you for your plugin. I am using it.
Google is supposed to now be ranking those sites with interactive elements and images higher than the text only sites. So these tips and plugins are fantastic. Thanks!
These are very encouraging developments indeed. I plan to make a site/blog for the graphic novel I’m making and I’m making some video teasers for it. This will help me a lot because I’m having a hell of a time finding ways to put these teaser videos into the blogs.
I hope these development will continue further and that it will make video files a lot easier to integrate into the blogs.
This is a great set of plug ins it all depends on the kind of blog you are running and the kind of information you want to share, but sure we have to take more serious the power of video posting
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I did not know you could do this kind of stuff.. thanks a ton!!
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Definately very useful article.
I will be using this tricks in the future sites.
Regards
I wonder, are people using video because they are becoming tired of the written word? I for one feel I can express myself better in writing. In addition, there are certain prejudices and preconceptions that people will have upon seeing a certain person in a video that they will not be subject to in a written piece. That being said, I see video as the way forward for internet marketing and blogging alike.
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Thanks for the info!
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Wow, thanks for this post. I can definitely see how these plugins would help me with my Internet Marketing efforts. Especially the Video Feeds plugin. Keep these posts coming. They are of great help.
Cheers.
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im using smart youtube wordpress plugin and it seems fine with me. i will try the list you’ve given above and see their difference. i’ll soon post my assessment.
Using videos in your blog can have negative effects if you are not out to get readers. If you just want targeted traffic that click on your ads, you might want to reconsider having video on your blog.
I live videos in blogs BUT we need to see a mod that prevents people from placing 100 video feeds into one blog post. People tend to really overdo it and place every YouTube vid they’ve seen into a single post. This is a good mod though; very helpful for me since I have trouble embedding videos in my wordpress templates.
Wow, That’s so cool. Awesome information. I’m still new to blogging and this was really helpful. I always wanted to use video. I came across the youtube Wordpress plug-in but i guess i will give this a try to. Thanks for the information
Nice tutorial. I recently moved to Wordpress from blogger and really am amazed with it. Regretting the late move. But tutorials like this really help me work things out on WP. Thanks a lot. Appreciate it.
Great idea to intergrate video onto a blog. Didn’t know that good be done, would definitely help with internet marketing!
Interesting article and nice tutorial. but anyone who does use videos should keep in mind no to use too many videos. Many bloggers have the tendency to use a lot of videos. Which I personally is somewhat a not good idea. using videos is ok. But not too many. Great tutorial anyway. Keep it up. Cheers
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I missed your first post too, thanks for that link I could read through your first post and then this part 2, it is going to be great to have videos..
Wordpress has always been good and with videos it is going to be much better.
Really Great Idea! >> Great idea to intergrate video onto a blog. Didn’t know that good be done, would definitely help with internet marketing!
I’m looking forward to trying out the video plug-ins you’ve suggested. I especially appreciate having options that go beyond the usual suggestions of “embed a YouTube video.” One of the great advantages of working with Wordpress is just that–lots of options!
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Hi Bonnie,
Thanks for the comment, and you’re right, the beauty of WordPress is that you can mold it into whatever you need it to be:)
p.s. I checked out your site, subscribed, and wanted to let you know that I’m about an hour south of you. If you have any need for WP or general web development chit chat, feel free to contact me, looks your doing some interesting stuff.
I’m bookmarking this page right after I post this comment. This is something I want to do once I finish my first blog. Thanks for sharing this info.
Chris
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