Media Player Inside WordPress

Wordtube is a WordPress plugin which works with the JW Flash Video Player allowing you to embed videos, music and other media files on your website. It is easy to use and looks clean and professional.

Website visitors can view the files without leaving your website or having to download any special software. Your website could be playing:

• your own music
• Your own video clips
• audio/visual presentations
• graphical presentations

Media Player with Custom Skin

The file above was created by Los Chicos as a learning aid for children learning spanish. I have added the Comet skin to change the look of the player.  See the standard player layout at www.loschicos.co.nz.

Like Your Own ‘YouTube’

Once you have activated the plugin on your WordPress website, you can upload all sorts of files including streaming video formats (Format .flv or .swf), sound files as MP3 and JPG, GIF or PNG graphic files. Sort the files into playlists, then insert the individual files or playlists into your sidebar, a post or a page.

Customizing Your Player

Below are just some of the add-ons available to make your media player really work for you:

• Skins – purchase separately to change the look of your player
• Advertising – monetize your site by showing ads or display your own ads
• Sharing – allow others to share your files on social media sites such as Facebook & Twitter or embed your video on their own websites
• Analytics – see whose viewing your video content on your Google Analytics account

Wordtube Setup

1. Download the Wordtube Plugin for WordPress
2. Add to your plugins folder and activate
3. Go to Wordtube under Settings and enter preferred screen sizes
4. Under Layout tab, add link to custom skin if you have downloaded one.
5. Go to Media section at top and click on Wordtube link to add files

If your website is for profit, you need to purchase a JW Player commercial licence. You can do this after setting up the plugin on your site.

Upload a new media file

1. In website admin, go to Media, then wordtube
2. Click Insert New Media File button under list of files
3. Give file a title and add author
4. click on browse to select file from computer
5. Tick relevant playlists
6. Click on Add media file button at bottom

This can take a few minutes depending on the size of the file. Once successfully uploaded, you will see it in the list on the main wordtube page.

Create a new playlist

If you have a lot of files, you will want to group them into playlists before adding them to your pages. The Los Chicos website has a playlist for each term of spanish lessons and each adult learning module.

1. Login to website
2. On the left sidebar, go to Media, then wordtube
3. Click on Edit Playlist link at bottom of the page
4. Give new playlist a title and decription.
5. Click on Add Playlist button.
6. You can preview all your playlists at the bottom of the Wordtube admin page

Insert file/playlist on a page/post

1. In Website admin, go to Pages/Posts
2. Click on title of relevant page/post or add new
3. Click on green icon on same line as bold, italic etc
4. Choose playlist tab & select relevant playlist to insert
5. Save page or click update button on right