How To Use VideoPress On Your WordPress Blog
I was looking for a video sharing website for a long time. Well,certainly it sounds funny as there are many video sharing websites out there. Say for example, YouTube, Viddler, Vimeo, Veoh and so on. But if you want to embed your own blog related video on your site, I recommend not to use YouTube. Because when you upload your video on YouTube, they compress the video too much and the quality of the video gets too bad. Whenever anyone comes to your site and watch the video, they might not be interested to watch the full video. So, even if you have some good content in the video, you will not be able to attract the visitor.
A few weeks ago I stumbled upon a site named VideoPress. From the name I guessed it to be a product of WordPress. I was very excited and found that this could be really handy to use on any wordpress blog. Actually It is an upgrade which allows you to upload, share and embed video on your wordpress blog easily.
How Does VideoPress Work?
VideoPress allows you to upload any video and convert the video into different format (e.g DVD quality, HD quality etc). You will be able to preview the video and embed it in your post.
How To Use VideoPress
This is a nice video which introduces you to the VideoPress
For the Wordpress.com blog user
1.You need to go to your upgrades page and buy the VideoPress upgrade.
2. Once you buy, you can upload the videos and embed them on your WordPress.com hosted blog.
For the self-hosted Wordpress blogger
1. At first, you need to follow the above steps as the video will be hosted on WordPress.com server. If you do not have a wordpress.com hosted blog, you need to create one and follow the above steps.
2. Now you can upload the video on your WordPress.com hosted blog Media Library.
3. Then you need to install the VideoPress plugin on your own WordPress blog. The plugin allows you to access your WordPress.com blog Media Library.
4. Once it is done you can extract and insert video embed code into your WordPress blog.
Other Features Of VideoPress
1. It chooses the best quality video on the basis of your display width.
2. It supports a myriad of file format.
3. It also supports large file sizes.
4. The videos have stats which allows you to know where and how often they are being viewed.
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