The metadata can also be edited if needed. Word. Press Video Plugin Noors Plugin. Videos can significantly increase the importance of a Word. Press postpage. It makes your content much more compelling to the users as well as the search engine crawler. Research has shown that users tend to spend more time on a web page where the key concept is presented via videos. To be honest, if I had to choose between a blog post where the content is too long sort of like a written tutorial and a video tutorial I would definitely be interested in the second option. That pretty much explains why video marketing has been so successful. Issues With Video Embedding. I have always experienced issues trying to embed videos on my Word. Press blog. Its just there are not many good options when it comes to video embedding. Even though there is a few I find them extremely confusing for the new Word. Press users. Not all users are familiar with coding. Thats why they use Word. Press. So it will be really good to have a solution that requires fewer steps to follow and meets users expectation. Getting Started With Easy Video Player. Finally, I took an effort to create a plugin that may be able to resolve some of the major issues Word. Press users were experiencing Easy Video Player. Easy Video Player allows you to embed your favorite videos on a Word. Press postpage. Easy Video Player Info. Requirements. A self hosted Word. Press site running on a reliable web host like Site. Ground. Support for the Word. Press shortcode API. Features. Embed videos using simple shortcodes no coding requiredPlay videos using HTML5. Enable automatic fallback for browsers that dont support HTML5. Copy Updated Files Only Linux Mint on this page. It allows older browsers like Internet Explorer version 8 or lower to play your videos. Embed responsive videos so they look great while browsing from mobile devices. Installation. Download the Easy Video Player plugin. Login to your Admin Dashboard and go to Plugins Add NewClick on the upload option. Select the easy video player. Install and Activate the plugin. Now go to the Settings menu of the plugin Settings Easy Video Player and check the Enable j. Query option. Thats all you need to do for configuring the plugin. Embedding Videos in a PostPage. Create a new postpage and embed the following shortcode. Now replace the URL parameter with the actual URL of your video. Thats it. Simply publish the postpage and your video will be embedded along with your content. Video Autoplay. If you want a particular video to start playing automatically you can set the autoplay option to true in the shortcode. Control Player Size. To control the size of a video you can specify a width. Control Player Aspect Ratio. The player aspect ratio is set to 0. To override it you can specify a different ratio. Poster Image. You can specify a poster image for your video by adding the poster parameter in the shortcode. Video Loop. If you want a particular video to start playing again when it ends you can set the loop option to true in the shortcode. Video Sharing. Sharing is enabled by default in the player. If you want to disable it you can set the share option to false in the shortcode. Modifier classes. There are modifier classes that you can specify in the shortcode to customize the player. For example. evpembedvideo urlhttp example. You. Tubefp fat add a tall timelineno buffer hide the buffer indicatorfp edgy make the icons angularfp outlined make the icons outlinedfp mute add a muteunmute button to the controlbarno volume hide the volume control. You can specify more than one class separated by whitespaces in the shortcode. Custom CSSIn addition to modifier classes, you can apply your own custom CSS by simply installing the Simple Custom CSS plugin. You need to add your CSS under Appearance Custom CSS. Hide Play Button. Player Skins. By default, the player uses this skin. In order to display the player using a different skin e. Player Template. By default, the player uses the Flowplayer template. However, you can choose a different player template using the template parameter. Please note that modifier CSS classes do not work when you are using a different video player template. Video Preload. By default, the mediaelement template only renders the metadata of a video when the page loads. If you want to change this behavior you can set the preload option to auto or none in the shortcode. Only metadata should be loaded when the page loads defaultauto The video should be loaded entirely when the page loadsnone The video should not be loaded when the page loads. Center Video. By default, the mediaelement player is aligned to the left. However, you can use this method to align the video in the middle. Install and activate the Simple Custom CSS plugin. Add this CSS under Appearance Custom CSS. FAQ Frequently Asked Questions1. Can I autoplay on mobile devices Video autoplay is disabled by default on i. OS and android devices. This is to make sure that no data is loaded until the user initiates it. I understand the default option. But Can I still autoplay on a mobile device by adding some code No. Because this is how it was designed by the hardware manufacturer. You can even try embedding a video without using this plugin and the autoplay wont still work. If you appreciate my work you can thank me by giving this plugin a 5 star rating here. Im offering this plugin to the Word. Press community for free and I provide free support for it. So If you dont like it feel free to use a different plugin. But please dont post hurtful reviews as it makes me want to not continue this project anymore. Users who like Easy Video Player also like WP e. Store for selling videos in Word. Press. GET 6. 0 OFF Word. Press Hosting Here.