• Introduction
• Introduction
• Concepts
• Overview of Concepts and Terms
• Sef-Hosting or Video Service
• A Hybrid Approach to Online Video
• Advances in Online Video Players
• Categorising and Contextualising Video
• Aggregation of Video
• Useful Online Services
• Miro Community
• Creating Subtitles Online with Amara
• Hands On: WordPress
• Inbuilt Video Features in WordPress
• An Intro to Choosing WordPress Plugins
• Advanced Responsive Video Embedder
• Video Aggregation in Wordpress
• Hand On: Drupal
• Basic Video Embedding Drupal
• Uploading Video Files in Drupal
• Choosing an HTML5 Video Player
• Hybrid Approaches for Video in Drupal
• Video Aggregation in Drupal
• Hand On: Plumi
• Intro to Plumi
• Plumi Video Features
• Installing and Configuring Plumi

Advanced Responsive Video Embedder

If you need help on how to search for and install WordPress plugins you can read help here.

You may want to a more flexible way to embed videos than the default. There are literally hundreds of plugins which offer this. 

We outline the possibilities of just one called Advanced Responsive Video Embedder.

After install the plugin from the link above AND an additional plugin called Jquery Colorbox.

you will see a new icon of a clapper board on your WordPress editor bar.

Paste in the URL of the video you want to embed in the top box.

Fill out any other options. Here choose Thumbnail as your mode.

Click the Insert Short Code option.

Your post should now look like the following.

Click on Publish to save your post.

When you review it you should see a thumbnail image of the video.

When we click on this thumbnail the background of our page will go grey, and our video will play inside a nice looking 'colorbox'. This relies on the jQuery colorbox plugin we installed.

It also intelligently works out how large your browser is on your screen and adapts. This is the Responsive part.

On a large screen it looks like the above.

If your browser window is small, it responds and adapts.