Extending WordPress by Using the Power of Video - Part Two
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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?
Good to see more videocentric plugins for Wordpress. Hopefully other’s will jump in as well as it makes sense.
jay dedman’s last blog post..VIDEO: pothole_killer
Good point.. I should be integrating videos on my Wordpress Theme Releases.
ChiQ Montes’s last blog post..Official Launch!
If you’re interested, you may want to have a look at the Show in a Box group and possibly join the email group to learn more.
http://showinabox.tv/
@ChiQ
Yes you should be integrating them! This would be great! It is much easier to embrace the concept if it is easier to implement.
I’m really excited about the future of video blogging. Some of my favorite blogs these days a vlogs. I’ve tried video myself, but I hate the way I sound.
Great list of video plugins for Wordpress though
Justin Briggs’s last blog post..The Nashville SEO and Online Marketing Scene
My preference is WP-Video. Very easy to use.
Hey Justin - Don’t worry about how you sound. Most of us think we sound terrible when we hear ourselves. As long as the info is good, it doesn’t matter how you sound.
vPIP is very interesting i’ll check it out…
PS: do you know if is possible to add some adsense in the player or something like?
Renato’s last blog post..DVD
Good question, but I don’t think vPIP offers that capability.
Great wordpress video plugin list there.
I also wanted to shere one of my favorites video plugin and its kml_flashembed.
I used this plugin on most of my video blog site.
regards
I just did a bit of research and it seems it’s still being actively updated. For those of you reading, you can find it here…http://kimili.com/plugins/kml_flashembed
p.s. Nice video site by the way:)
Thanks for the info! Very helpful and i like your blog. I am now subscribed :D. I seen some similar content on http://www.onetweak.com
hi, if you’re into the video thing, then a look at
http://www.stompernet.net/stompervision/ they’re giving away really good info about video production.
the directors commentary version vid is excellent.
cheers.
Tony.
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Video is really a necessity for a good site these days!
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