Embedding a Single Video

There are dozens of software programs that allow you to embed an individual video in your web site (e.g. oEmbed, Smart Youtube, WordPress shortcuts). TubePress distinguishes itself from the competition in that it lets you easily embed a video plus all of the video's meta information (length, description, author, keywords, etc). You can even have fine-grained control over how the meta information is presented with the video via TubePress's customization abilities. Here's an example of a TubePress embedded video (left) vs. the competition (right) …

To embed a single video with TubePress, you simply use the video shortcode attribute to indicate the ID of the video you'd like to embed. For instance, if you want to embed the video with ID J51kfduN5aA, you would use use the following shortcode

When embedding a single video, TubePress will use the single.tpl.php template from your theme. You can adjust which meta information is displayed by using the regular meta display shortcodes.

usage/single-video-embedding.txt · Last modified: 2011/03/11 15:03 by Eric Hough
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