Want to embed a facebook video into your WordPress page or post without downloading the whole video? It’s easy! 1. Go to the Facebook video and right click on the video and choose “Show video URL”. 2. Go to this site: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/embedded-video-player, scroll down just a little and paste your URL and choose the width…
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How to Make YouTube Videos Responsive in WordPress
I just found this great article that uses only CSS to make videos responsive: http://www.wpstuffs.com/youtube-videos-responsive-wordpress/ Here’s the gist: Add this to your style.css file: .video-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; } .video-container iframe, .video-container object, .video-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }…
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Tips for Customizing your YouTube Video Embed
Videos are becoming more and more popular on the web, and YouTube is the number one place for hosting videos. Since it’s free and saves lots of space and bandwidth on your own site, YouTube is a great answer for storing videos. But sometimes you are looking for something a little more customized than YouTube’s…
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How to Use a Custom Thumbnail Image for your YouTube Video
The best way to change the thumbnail image with YouTube video is to set it within your YouTube account, but if the video is not yours, or if you want something more custom than what YouTube allows, this is another way to do it. Of course, change out “my_thumbnail.png” with your actual image and to…
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Plugin Review: WP Video Lightbox
Occasionally the design of a website will call for a tiny video thumbnail, which would be impossible to watch in that tiny size. So I like to use WP Video Lightbox so that when you click on the video, it will open in a lightbox. The plugin has many options including one to give the…
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