WordPress, the best open source blogging platforms, allows users to embed video files.
Also there are hundreds of video plugins and widgets available to add additional options to manage your media files effectively.
Video files can be stored and hosted on your blog or off your blog on a video hosting site.
OFF-site hosted video wordPress plugins
Here is a collection of video plugins to embed videos from services like YouTube, Google Video, Vimeo, Metacafe and many other video hosting sites.
- WordPress Video Plugin – easy embedding of videos into your WordPress blog from 65 different online video services (Youtube, Youtube Playlist, google video, Brightcove, Yahoo! Video and many other supporting sites).
- Video Sidebar Widgets – Video Sidebar Widgets to display videos from 14 video sharing networks such as Vimeo, YouTube, MySpace Videos etc.
- Video Sidebar Widgets Sidebar widgets for displaying Flash Videos from 14 video sharing networks such as Vimeo, YouTube, MySpace Videos etc.
- Smart YouTube – This plugin allows you to insert YouTube videos and playlists into your post, comments and in RSS feeds.
- Daiko’s YouTube Widget – Make your own video list and add a sidebar widget to display random YouTube videos of your own choice.
- YouTube-Insert-Me –
- ProPlayer – Places online videos (YouTube, Vimeo, Veoh, Youku, Dailymotion, etc..) into your post by using JW FLV Player.
Self-Hosted Video WordPress Plugins
Here is a collection of video plugins to embed videos from videos uploaded to your hosting web server.
Please refer to self-hosted or off-site hosted videos section for more listings.
- All in One Video Pack: This plugin add full video capabilities to your blog. It includes every functionality including the ability to upload/ record/import videos directly to your post, edit and remix content with an online video editor, enable video responses, manage and track your video content, create playlists and much more.
Self-hosted or Fff-site hosted videos
Here is a collection of video plugins to embed videos from video hosting sites or videos uploaded to your hosting web server .
- Embedded Video – Using this plugin, you can embed videos into a blog post from external portals (like YouTube, Google Video and many many others) or videos uploaded to the web server or a remote server. Additionally a corresponding link to the video on the particular video portal page or a download link to the local file can be generated automatically.
- Viper’s Video Quicktags – This plugin adds videos from various websites such as YouTube, DailyMotion, Vimeo, and more. In order to embed a video, you just need to on new buttons to the rich text editor and paste the video URL into the prompt box.
- Link.de – Videopop WordPress Plugin– This plugins allows you to add videos by upload or by referencing them with a URL. It will create links that open videos in a popup window.
Flash Video Plugins
- Flash Video Player – This plugin allows the addition of videos into WordPress by using a menu with post-level overrides for customization of size, background color etc.Give up your style wishes once, and you never ever have to manually style a video again.
- Simple Flash Video: allow you to add .flv or .mp4 files on blog post. It also combines the popular Shadowbox utility to allow for the videos to float over the website content for a clean look.
- Flash video gallery plugin: Create a nice gallery of videos for your site with youtube and flv videos.
- FLV Flash Fullscreen Video Player
Video gallery plugin
- Ultimate carousel free video gallery – With this plugin you can create 3D video galleries with flv videos and/or youtube videos.
- Flash video gallery – With this plugin you can create video galleries from the flv videos in a folder.
- Contus video gallery –
- Grand FlA Gallery – is a powerfull flash & jQuery Photo Gallery, Video Gallery, Music Album & Banner Rotator plugin with powerfull admin to manage your media conten.
- FLV Gallery – Add a gallery of FLV videos to a post. Available videos will be displayed using thumbnails with a title and caption.
So you have seen 19+ options to embed video into your wordpress blog.
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