Easily Add Videos to Your WordPress Blogs
With the online video industry taking off, you may want to know some easy ways to add video to your WordPress sites. There are several great WordPress plugins for adding video content to your blogs. In this guide I’ll go over:
* Adding your own hosted .flv videos to WordPress
* How to embed videos from video sites such as YouTube
Start adding videos to your WordPress sites today and read on…
Playing hosted flash videos
If you can create your own .flv videos, and would rather not host them on a third-party site, there’s no better plugin than FLV Embed. With this plugin you can add your video to a post or page with a quick tag. First you need to get the plugin from WordPress.org at install it through OneClick or manually.
Once installed and activated, you’ll be able to configure the settings of the FLV player when it’s displayed on your blog.
In addition to setting options such as colors, you can also have your own logo embedded, have “Full Screen Mode” enabled, set the default volume, among other features you’d expect to see from a fully featured video plugin.
To display a video in a page or a post, you’d use a quick tag similar to the following:
The first option, currently your-video.flv, is obviously the name of the video in the path you set on the options page. You can also set it as a full URL. The optional-portrait.jpg is optional, and is what will show up as a “preview” before the video is played. The 2 numbers are width and height, respectively.
Embedding videos from other sites
Several popular video sites such as YouTube, Google Video, MetaCafe, IFILM, and others offer “embedding” code that will allow you to place a hosted video up for display on your own site, without sacrificing your own bandwidth resources. For WordPress, there is an easy plugin that you can use to embed videos in a similar “quick tag” format as above. It’s called Viper’s Video Quicktags.
Currently this plugin supports the following video sites:
* YouTube
* Google Video
* IFILM
* MetaCafe
* MySpace
These among other hosted video formats as well. You can get the plugin at WordPress.org. Once activated, you’ll see the options for the video sites on your post menu, which will prompt you for the video URL. It will generate the code in quick tag format to be displayed in your post.
As you can see, it’s a very simple format. All you need is the YouTube video URL. It’s a similar format for the other supported video sites as well.
Conclusion
If you post videos frequently on your blog I’d highly recommend these plugins, especially Viper’s for the quick tag post integration for all those video sites.
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Password protected membership site
We get a lot of people asking how to do a password protected membership site. We have a free tool to in your cpanel to manually add and remove members. This is a great free tool in your cpanel but most people want to be able to automate the process or take payment. First if you want to do high risk payments, you need to contact Verotel.com or ccbill.com and have them process the payments and set up the membership area. They will take care of everything like managing the billing, members, and paying you.
But if you just want a members area and do not need to take payments OR want to do just take paypal payments for low risk customers then we have the best solution.
Locked Area of a simple script that allows members to sign up:
Then either pay for access or just get free access. The member then can manage their account from a control panel.
Also you can view, manage, and change the options of members from your admin section:
If you want this, the basic version is free. We can even install it onto your website for $20. Contact us here if you want to install the password protected membership script for you. We can just bill your account on file for this. Of course you can install it yourself, it's not that hard.
The paid version is $80 plus $20 to install and includes these options:
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Link your registration system with PayPal Subscription Payments and charge a recurring fee for accessing your member's area. The system supports US Dollar, Pound Sterling or Euro as currency, and allows you to charge any fee for any duration of membership as you require, for example, $4.95 per 30 days or £15 per 90 days.
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Should a user not pay their recurring membership fee, the system will automatically expire the account and suspend the users member's area access. When this occurs the user will be sent a notification including instructions of how to renew their membership. The system is entirely automated and requires no administrator intervention.
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This facility allows you to validate registrations before the user receives access to the member's area. This means you can verify the user and ensure they are allowed access rather than them automatically receiving access to the member's area.
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This facility ensures your users always enter a valid and active email address. The software will send a validation link via email during the registration process, the user must receive this email and select the link in order to continue the registration process. If a valid email address is not entered, the user will not receive the validation link and will not be able to activate their account.
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Locked Area Pro supports up to ten custom form fields rather than the three available in Locked Area Lite.
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The failed login system will catch any failed member's area logins so you are aware of attempted hacks, this information can then be viewed in the administration panel in a convenient statistics system. A variety of additional statistical information is also available in the Professional version.
- Backup System
Simply select one button in the administration panel and Locked Area Pro will automatically backup all important user and statistical data including the main member's area database and log file. Backups are stored with a timestamp for your convenience and can be restored in a matter of seconds.
- .htaccess and .htpasswd Recovery
Just incase you have a problem with your .htaccess and .htpasswd files, with one click these can be regenerated. This is vital incase of accidental deletion or corruption.
Free joomla template
As you know Joomla can be installed on your website with one click from the Fantastico section. Here is a free template in case you want to change the look of your Joomla script.
Just click the image to download, have fun!
