Why, Where & How To Embed Video In WordPress Blog

Uploading a video on a WordPress blog involves uploading the video files on the users' web hosting account. These videos could be played on the website through a video player. Embedding the video, on the other hand, means, the user is hosting and linking to a video that originally belongs to another location.  Managing uploaded videos on a WordPress site involves additional plugins that further increases the server load. As a result, it can slow down the speed of the sites. Besides, uploading videos on video-based platforms such as YouTube, DailyMotion, Instagram among others would be beneficial in comparison to uploading own video on your blog.

Users Should Embed Videos On Their WordPress Blogs

When it comes to sharing videos on blogs, users prefer embedding over uploading. Video WordPress themes offer various benefits. The users can upload their creations on other video-based platforms and later embed the links to their website. Following are the various reasons for which the users prefer embedding.

Speed And Performance

Uploading large video files not only reduce the performance and speed of the site but also affect the viewing experience. Embedding a video from a third-part host involved in video streaming service does not include such problems.

Better User Experience 

Platforms such as YouTube and others offer the best video resolution for the viewers based on the network connection and quality of their device. As a result, when the users embed videos from these sites they offer a better user experience to their visitors.

Increased User Engagement

Embedding a video on a website will also help in improving the quality of the content. Besides, these websites have powerful backlinks to another video-based website as well. Both visitors and users generally spend more time on websites embedded with videos by clicking on the links. This will in turn also help in improving the rankings of the websites on the search engine.  

The Ideal Position To Put The Embedded Video

Depending on the type of the content one can embed the video in the correct position accordingly. Sometimes, while explaining the steps involved in various activities, users add screenshots after explaining each step. They mostly add the full video at the end of the content. One should keep in mind that videos are used for the benefits of the viewers. Many readers rely on the explanation in a video rather than going through facts and statistics mentioned in the text. However, it is advised that one should refrain from adding a single video. Rather it should be complemented with contents. This will help the users and visitors to gain a proper understanding of different topics.  

How To Embed A Video On WordPress Blog

As an understanding is gained from the above discussion the various benefits video WordPress themes offer, let us discuss the various ways in which users can embed videos on the WordPress blogs

oEmbed Method

One of the easiest ways to embed video in a WordPress blog is using oEmbed. It is an open format that allows embedding content such as text, videos, images, etc from one site to another by entering the URL from the source. The steps involved in embedding video using this tool are as follows-

Step 1: Find the video that the users want to embed in their page or post

Step 2: Copy the URL of the video

Step 3: Open the WordPress Visual editor

Step 4: Paste the copied URL of the video and it would be embedded within the post

Iframe Method

This method helps the users in customizing the appearance of a video on a page or post through the following steps

Step 1: Choose the video that is to be embedded within the post

Step 2: Click on the ‘share' icon placed over the subscribe button and then on ‘Embed'.

Step 3: One will find a few option boxes and iframe code. From the first box, one can set the timing for starting of the video. One can also customize the play/pause, fast forward and volume button from the remaining boxes.  

Step 4: Copy the iframe code and open the WordPress visual editor

Step 5: Change the visual mode to text mode to be able to paste the embed code.

Thus, one can easily embed a video on their blog page or post as per their requirement to improve the quality of their content and improve their rankings on search engines.