I know what tack I would take. I would clip for a specific amount of time and scale it to the size of my desired thumbnail. The video can be auto clipped or they can be clipped manually to ensure the most interesting pieces are captured. HTML <div class=”video”> <video class=”thevideo” loop preload=”none”> <source src=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/353023/PATH/TO/FILE.mp4″ … Read more
I assume “images” folder is wp-content/uploads. It is possible to store videos in seperate folder. You can use “upload_dir” filter like in example code below. add_filter( ‘upload_dir’, ‘some_prefix_upload_dir’, 10, 1 ); function some_prefix_upload_dir( $uploads ) { if ( isset( $_FILES[‘async-upload’][‘type’] ) ) { // not sure if every video format have “video” keyword in its … Read more
Optimal method for organizing videos by topics discussed?
It sounds like you want the download attribute. Here is an example: <a href=”/media/my_new_song.mp3″ download>click to download my song</a> Here is a W3Schools article for further reference.
To display shortcodes in widgets , use a regular text widget, and add this line to your theme’s functions.php file: // Use shortcodes in text widgets. add_filter(‘widget_text’, ‘do_shortcode’); This tells WordPress to render the shortcodes in widgets. and if you want to call your shortcode by php you can use do_shortcode() function // Use shortcode … Read more
This is rather subjective but here is my view. I have built video galleries used on public and private servers. I use Miro for compression in open source formats and video.js to support embedded viewing. Miro does a great job of minimizing bandwidth consumption. video.js has been more than adequate; I consider it a very … Read more
On the current theme, there was no page.php file present, so WordPress was reading index.php and, according to the theme’s instructions, displaying the_excerpt(). It will strip many tags, including <video>, and that’s exactly what was happening. The content of the posts is is displayed based (mainly) on the contents of the file single.php, but for … Read more
So, I don’t know what kind of videos you are including that would break the rules of these websites (especially Vimeo, I think they are pretty lenient on what you can upload there) but in general, I would usually advise against hosting your own videos. Websites like YouTube and Vimeo, who are specialized in this … Read more
You need a media player. WordPress (and more importantly your server) doesn’t know how to play media unless you’ve got it in via HTML5. You can use plugins like Viper’s Video Quicktags which can parse it for you.
No, that is not possible. You can use oEmbed for some video sources, but for your own video you have to decide what a player you want to use. That’s exactly what plugins are for. There is no point in avoiding using them. Update In WordPress 3.6 support for native audio and video was added. … Read more