Video Blogger for Wordpress 2.0
| Plugin Status | Stable | ||
| Author | Chad Lancour | Version | 1.0h |
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| Download | Visit | Plugin License | GPL |
| Description : | |||
| This plugin allows for simple video blogging of content hosted by Google Video, YouTube, vSocial, and DailyMotion. | |||
| This plugin allows for simple video blogging of content hosted by Google Video, YouTube, vSocial, and DailyMotion. Here were my plugin requirements: 1. It needed to be simple to drop a video player into a post that played content from a variety of video hosting services. 2. It needed to be easy to use AND would not require editing the post via the HTML source. I?fm not a big fan of plug-ins that require you to drop DiV tags into your post; since the only way to see them is to view the HTML source. 3. It also needed to use an approach in which you didn?ft end up with 10 embedded flash players on a page at one time. I?fve borrowed an approach that Google uses to dynamically swap flash players in and out as needed. This keep browser memory footprints low. This plug-in will also stop the playing of one video when another is selected. 4. It needed to cache information about the video from the video source, such as title, description, length, etc. This was key so that you didn?ft have type this information into your post, and whatever the video information was on the host is what would be reflected on your video blog. This also prevents unnessecary server side trips to the video host for info. It does it once, and it?fs done. This is my first WordPress plugin, so let me know how it works (or not.) 5. It needed to be able to specify which thumbnail to display on the post for the specified video. 6. Simplicity. Get the video id, type it into your post. Done. |