Thousand of business websites and blogs are already using video content to enhance online presence. WordPress is perfect for this strategy and if you want to upgrade video options and extend the capability of the basic WordPress framework the best way is to use a WordPress video plugin or WordPress video theme.
Used the right way video is a powerful mode of expression on the Internet. It is just so much better than a lot of boring text and images. In my opinion most businesses need video content on their website to connect with their costumers. Videos will help tell the story and let costumers know “who you are” and “what you stand for”. This is extremely important now a days. It’s also important to have a good traffic conversion strategy to make sure your visitors take action. To achieve this good landing pages can be powerful i combination with video. You can get pre-designed pages to help you get started.
A premium WordPress video plugin is typically superior to a free one. Often-times they offer more advanced features and also more organized and feature rich back-end system to help you administrate your video content. Also, in general premium plugins comes with good support, are well documented and provide regular updates.
This article showcase a best WordPress video plugin collection to help you embed cool video features into your website. The plugins support the most popular video formats used today and some of them make it possible to easily embed video streams while others support self hosted videos.
Enjoy surfing!
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Social Video Locker for WordPress – MORE INFO
Tap into 2 Billion+ social media accounts with Social Video Locker for WordPress. Social Video Locker allows you to quickly and easily set up videos on your site using the web’s most popular video services that users must share any URL you want before they can watch the video.
Vimeo SEO user playlist for wordpress – MORE INFO
Vimeo Playlist SEO with jQuery for WordPress is a useful video plugin allows you to turn an unordered list of Vimeo links into a video playlist. The php script makes the Vimeo list on a fly and uses the latest Simple Api. It is very easy to use and you can choose to make a video playlist from a user with the following options: videos, likes, appears_in, all_videos, subscriptions, album, channel or group
MediaBlender – WordPress Gallery Plugin – MORE INFO
MediaBlender is a highly customizable media plugin that allows you to finally show all of your media – easily! It comes packaged with 3 gallery styles, so you’ll be able to make use of it in multiple areas of your site. Lightbox Gallery – Create a grid of thumbnails that open up in a slick little lightbox. Slider Gallery – Show your attachments directly in your content in a compact, yet dynamic slider. List Gallery – Stack your attachments vertically in your post so they can all be seen just by scrolling down y
Banner Rotator / Content Slider WordPress Plugin – MORE INFO
All In One Banner WordPress plugin is very powerful with a lot of options. It includes 5 types of WordPress banners plugins and it supports video very well: Banner Rotator, Thumbnails Banner, Banner with Playlist, Content Slider and Carousel
Estro – jQuery Ken Burns slider – wordpress plugin – MORE INFO
“Estro” is a beautiful slider. They have taken the solid technological foundation which underpinned the success of the Estro jQuery plugin, and have pushed it even further. They have added a custom admin panel which will allow you to customize all aspects of your slider without having to touch a line of code. Drag n drop arranging of your slides, multiple slider insertion, skin selection and Ken Burns customization.
VidEmbed WordPress Plugin – MORE INFO
VidEmbed is a powerful Video Plugin. Embed videos directly in your WordPress posts, pages, and widget areas. It support both self-hosted videos, Amazon S3 hosted videos, as well as YouTube and Vimeo. You can quickly add videos from many sources and make it look good at the same time.
SLIDER PRO – WordPress Slider Plugin – MORE INFO
Slider PRO is one of the most powerful slider plugins for WordPress on the market (some buyers have been saying that it’s actually the best). The slider offers you 100+ customizable properties, 100+ possible transition effects, 10+ skins and much more. Also, the slider’s administration area is very powerful and uses the default WordPress design, which WordPress users are already familiar with. This slider plugin is carefully coded, using WordPress development best practices, to avoid conflicts with other themes and plugins that are well coded. Please take a look at the list of features at the feature page.
Masonry Tube WordPress Plugin – MORE INFO
Masonry Tube is a user friendly, highly customizable WordPress plug-in that leverages the power of the JQuery Masonry and the YouTube API . It works out of the box with WordPress 3 to allow for easy content management and even easier implementation. In a nutshell, this plugin simply creates a pop up window with your YouTube video in it using jQuery and the YouTube API . Secondly, it uses jQuery masonry to make a nice interface for your users.
CCGallery WP – Multimedia Gallery WordPress Plugin – MORE INFO
CCGallery WP makes it easy to embed the CCGallery HTML5 Multimedia Gallery, in your WordPress theme. It displays all your images, audio files and video files in a sleek and attractive interface. You get to browse the items in Coverflow mode or in a Thumbnail grid mode. You can easily switch between the two display modes and can even filter the items by displaying only images, or audio files, or video files. Filtering of items by custom categories is also supported. Also CCGallery incorporates a responsive design so that the gallery display fits in various screen sizes ranging from mobile phones to desktop browsers. CCGallery has been designed in such a way that it is extremely easy to browse through a large number of items.
iCarousel™ – WordPress – MORE INFO
iCarousel is a powerful mobile-friendly and lightweight jQuery plugin that allows you to arrange a set of images in a carousel layout. The plugin also provides an easy to use API which will allow to further enhance the functionality of the carousel. Great for screenshot slider.
WordPress Video Training Dashboard Widget – MORE INFO
A dashboard widget/plugin that provides one click access to WordPress video training. The widget can be configured by a WordPress administrator, allowing them to choose the most appropriate videos for the website and client.
ROYALSLIDER – MORE INFO
RoyalSlider for WordPress is a cross-device jQuery content slider with touch-based navigation and fluid layout. It has user-friendly admin area where you can manage slides, change slider settings, customize interface and add blocks-captions using custom WYSIWIG editor.
3D Content Slider WordPress Plugin – MORE INFO
F3D WordPress Slider is based on jQuery Featured 3D Slider plugin that converts static HTML content into a 3D stage with smoothly moving objects. It is very easy to integrate it in a WordPress theme. Slides are just wrappers of whatever HTML content you can imagine – images, captions, links, buttons, icons.. Even video embeds. Featured 3D is highly configurable. More than one sliders can be initiated on a single page, each one with its own configuration set of options. Please, check the live preview of this slider.
HTML5 Video Player WordPress Plugin – MORE INFO
HTML5 VIDEO PLAYER is a powerful plugin with multiple skins and with all the controllers usable in full screen mode, including playlist. It responsive and also works on Android plus includes 3 types of video players: Right-side Playlist, Bottom Playlist and Without Playlist. You have a complete sound control. You can also set the initial volume.
Video Gallery WordPress Plugin – MORE INFO
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Responsive, localized, awesome, fully featured, fast. The most advanced stock video gallery in the world! Now as a WordPress plugin!
Vidplanet WordPress Video Sharing Plugin – MORE INFO
This plugin can create a comprehensive amount of video playlist and video gallery with full custom controls of shortcode.
Video Player WordPress Plugin – MORE INFO
This wordpress plugin will help you administrate the entire video player using a very friendly interface. You’ll be able to customize the player look & feel, playlist and CSS file. The plugin comes in two versions: Right Side playlist and Bottom Playlist
YouTube Premium WordPress Videos Integration – MORE INFO
This Premium YouTube Plugin for WordPress enables you to integrate not only single YouTube videos into your blog posts and pages, but also full YouTube channels and featured YouTube videos (Most Popular videos, Most View videos etc.) that you can filter by date (weekly, daily, all time etc.).
WordPress Media Gallery – Ken Burns Effect – MORE INFO
WordPress Media Gallery is the ultimate gallery for your WordPress site. It supports any kind of content from simple images to advanced inline content to videos. Because of this, it can be used not only as a gallery, but also as a slider, banner rotator, video gallery and more! This is the only gallery you will ever need!
Vimeo Video Player WordPress Plugin with Playlist – MORE INFO
This wordpress plugin will help you administrate the entire video player using a very friendly interface. You’ll be able to customize the player look & feel, playlist and CSS file.
VideoPress – MORE INFO (Free Plugin)
The VideoPress plugin allows blog administrators to upload new videos to their WordPress.com video account and manage existing videos from the convenience of their self-hosted WordPress.org blog’s administrative interface. Authors can add any VideoPress video into a blog post through the use of a simple shortcode and customizations.
MediaElement.js – MORE INFO (Free Plugin)
Video and audio plugin for WordPress built on the MediaElement.js HTML5 media player library. Provides Flash or Silverlight fallback players for non-HTML5 browsers. Supports iPhone, iPad, and Andriod. Supports MP4, OGG, WebM, WMV, MP3, WAV, WMA files as well as captions with WebSRT files.
Media Grid – WordPress Responsive Portfolio – MORE INFO
Media Grid allow you to create unlimited responsive and filterable portfolios with ease. The plugin uses the latest CSS3 and jQuery technologies to adapt each portfolio to its container. No matter if is wide or short, the grid will be always displayed correctly. Also in responsive themes, you can choose if use the automatic resizing system or set a relative width to keep the grid items always on the same size, they will be placed in the best way possible to ensure the best layout. Lastly, Media Grid integrates each item with Pinterest , the new popular social network. It’s a new way to show your videos and images.
Viper’s Video Quicktags – MORE INFO (Free Plugin)
Tired of copying and pasting the embed HTML from sites like YouTube? Then this plugin is for you. Just simply click one of the new buttons that this plugin adds to the write screen (rich editor included) and then paste the URL that the video is located at into the prompt box — easy as that. You can fully configure how the videos are displayed (width, height, colors, alignment on the page) and much more. Your site will even stay (X)HTML valid unlike with the code provided by most video sites.
The Wall – Media Gallery – WordPress Plugin – MORE INFO
“The Wall” is the ultimate interactive media gallery for your site presentation. Now for WordPress!
Youtube SEO playlist for WordPress – MORE INFO
This plugin allows you to turn an unordered list of YouTube links into a video playlist. The php script makes the Youtube list on a fly and uses the latest Gdata Api v2. You can choose to make a video playlist with keywords, userchannel or a regular Youtube playlist. There are many options which can be set in the php script and in the jQuery function. Includes the new html5 youtube player option. This is the only Youtube script available with search engine optimization (SEO) Almost drag and drop.
WordPress Media – MORE INFO
WordPress Media 1.3.1 allows the addition of an HTML 5 audio and/or video player to your theme. It requires PHP 5 .1 or higher. The player is an instance of the popular and stable jPlayer by Happyworm and can be inserted into posts via a shortcode, sidebar areas via a widget, or anywhere in your theme via a template tag. Multiple instances of the player on one page is supported.
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Thanks for this great collection of plugins.
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Have you ever been to a site that allows you to preview 5 videos and then asks you to join when you run out of previews? I need that video plugin. Does anyone know one that does that?
Whats up this is kind of of off topic but I was wanting to know
if blogs use WYSIWYG editors or if you have to manually code with
HTML. I’m starting a blog soon but have no coding experience so I wanted to get guidance from someone with experience. Any help would be enormously appreciated!
Hi Andy, thanks very much for putting this list together. It’s a good service to the community. I was looking for a video carousel for a client site and now have found two that I like.
Cheers, Tony