Video in wordpress
Posted on December 17, 2008
Filed Under themes, video |
Do you remember, back in the day, how many hoops you had to jump through to stop WordPress killing your YouTube embed code. It was a nightmare. Save from HTML view, and redo the whole post if you made a typo because opening it for edit would kill your scripts.
Those days are long gone - this video took 16 seconds to embed, including firing up a new window, doing a search for wordpress 2.7 and grabbing the embed code. Video is so easy it hurts!
So now we are interested in making our video look GREAT - not just making it turn up.
Queue a nice new theme from Elite which gives a very ‘video site’ feel to WordPress. Preview it here because the screenshot doesn’t really do it justice.
You keep all the good stuff of your blog posts, they are just centered around video content rather than text. So you still get your SEO goodness, your commenting, your stats, and pretty much everything else. Plugins should work well too to drive alternative rating systems, polls and other side content.
If you have a predominantly video based project which demands a blog engine which presents video in a youtubey fashion you could do a lot worse. This is a pay theme, but the low cost and the time it would take you to format all those styles for housing videos seem a good trade off to me.
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