Online Journalism Backpack

WordPress Video Plugin

This video plugin from http://www.daburna.de/blog/2006/12/13/wordpress-video-plugin/ links videos from almost any source to your WordPress site.

Download, FTP to the plugins folder in your directory, activate in the plugins panel in WordPress. After that, when you write a piece of script in this format…

[youtube xxxxxx]

… in a post or a page (just write it in visual mode), the desired video will show up. You’ll find all the info you need on the plugin’s website.

Blip.tv:

For video stored on Blip.tv, you go to the FLV code. It looks like this…

http://blip.tv/file/get/Letsrun-USACrossCountryMensFinish296.flv

Copy/paste the part between “get/” and “.flv” which is the movie’s ID, and paste it into the script like this…

[bliptv Letsrun-USACrossCountryMensFinish296]

Youtube:

For video stored on Youtube, locate the URL for the video. It looks like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DHOZW_8OPk

Copy/paste the bold part of the code after the equation sign - into the script like this…

[youtube 8DHOZW_8OPk]