8.0 Upload Videos

8.1 Introduction

One key feature that the WordPress plugin check has included is the ability to upload videos of different formats onto the page. The plugin that accomplishes this is TinyMCE Advanced. TinyMCE adds options to the visual editor toolbar. The feature that we are concerned with is the upload video option.

Figure 15. TinyMCE Advanced

8.2 Instructions

To upload a video, just click the video upload button and a new menu will appear.

Figure 16. Video Upload Button

Figure 17. Video Upload

From the video upload menu, the user can choose from video types: Flash, QuickTime, Windows Media Player, Shockwave, and Real Player.

To upload a Windows Media Player file, for example, the user need to providesa URL of the file. If the Windows Media Player file is on the user’s computer, then they first need to upload the file onto WordPress using the Media option found on the sidebar:

Figure 18. Add new Media

After the user uploads the video, they then copy the URL provided to the video upload menu to complete the upload. It is that simple.

Figure 19. Video URL