Videolog. Viddler. Viddler is an interactive online video platform for uploading, sharing, enhancing, tagging, commenting on, and forming groups around videos. Viddler no longer provides a free service for non-commercial users and now requires all users to choose one of the three paid plan options. Embedding with a Shortcode To embed a video hosted by Viddler you will need to use a shortcode. To get the shortcode, first find the Viddler hosted video you want to use. Then click on the Share button displayed below the video.
Select the WordPress.com option and press Copy: Now you can paste the shortcode into a new post or page: After publishing, the video will look something like this: Help us improve: We're always looking to improve our documentation. DailyMotion. Embedding with a URL To quickly embed a Dailymotion video, simply copy the video’s URL from your web browser’s address bar while viewing the video: Paste it on a line by itself in your post/page editor: We take care of the rest! The video will look something like this: ↑ Table of Contents ↑ Embedding with a Shortcode You can also embed using use a shortcode. First, find a Dailymotion video you would like to use. In your web browser’s address bar, copy the highlighted portion of the video’s URL illustrated below (this is the video’s ID): In this example, the ID would be x8oma9, as you can see above.
Create a new post or page on your blog (or open an existing post or page in editing mode) and add the following shortcode directly to the visual editor. [dailymotion id=x8oma9] After publishing, the video will look similar to the one below. Troubleshooting Make sure the Dailymotion link is not hyperlinked. Help us improve: TED Talks. On TED.com, the best talks and performances from TED and partners are available to the world, for free. More than 900 TEDTalks are now available, with more added each week. All of the talks are subtitled in English, and many are subtitled in various languages.
These videos are released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license, so they can be freely shared and reposted. Embedding with a Shortcode Visit TED.com and locate the talk you would like to embed in your blog. Click on the Embed button at the bottom of the player window. Copy the WordPress.com shortcode from the overlay window and paste it to your post or page edit screen. In this example, the shortcode is [ted id=981] Publish the post or page, and the video will be similar to the one below. Help us improve: We're always looking to improve our documentation. Flickr Video.
Blip.tv. Blip.tv is the place to discover the best in original web series, from professional and up-and-coming producers. Embedding with a URL To quickly embed a Blip.tv video, simply copy the video’s URL from your web browser’s address bar while viewing the video: Paste it on a line by itself in your post/page editor: We take care of the rest! The video will look something like this: ↑ Table of Contents ↑ Embedding with a Shortcode You can also embed a Blip.tv video using a shortcode. In your WordPress.com dashboard, go to Posts → Add New or Pages → Add New (or open an existing post/page in editing mode).
Click Save Draft, Update, or Publish depending on the status of your post or page. After publishing, the video will look like this: Troubleshooting Make sure the Blip.tv link is not hyperlinked. Once the URL is unlinked, you will see the link text in black.Make sure to place the Blip.tv URL or shortcode on its own line. Help us improve: We're always looking to improve our documentation. Vimeo. Embedding with a URL To quickly embed a Vimeo video, simply copy the video’s URL from your web browser’s address bar while viewing the video: And paste it on a line by itself in your post/page editor: We take care of the rest! The video will look something like this: ↑ Table of Contents ↑ Embedding with a Shortcode If you’d like to specify a particular width and height for the video, you’ll want to create a shortcode.
To do so, copy the URL or video ID from your web browser’s address bar while viewing the video. Create the shortcode on a new post or page using one of the following formats. [vimeo or [vimeo 44633289] To change the width and height, for example to 500×280, you would use the following shortcode [vimeo 44633289 w=500&h=280] which produces a video that looks like this: Troubleshooting Make sure the Vimeo link is not hyperlinked. Once the URL is unlinked, you will see the link text in black.Make sure to place the Vimeo URL or shortcode on its own line. YouTube. Embedding with a URL To quickly embed a YouTube video, simply copy the video’s URL from your web browser’s address bar while viewing the video: Paste it on a line by itself in your post/page Visual editor (make sure that it is not hyperlinked). We take care of the rest! You can view and play the video directly from the editor: ↑ Table of Contents ↑ Embedding with a Shortcode To customize the video’s size and settings, use a shortcode.
Then create a shortcode using the format below. [youtube= Embedding a Playlist You can also embed a YouTube playlist instead of a single video. Be sure to copy the full URL, including &list=… at the end. Then, paste it on a line by itself in the post/page Visual editor (to embed with a URL) or create a shortcode using the format below. [youtube= The playlist will look something like this and can be viewed and played directly from the editor: Video Customization Options For example, this shortcode:
Troubleshooting Images. If you are having problems uploading images then the most likely causes are: The file size of the image is too large.Your connection is slow.There is a problem between your computer and the WordPress.com server. (You do not have a direct line here. Your connection will go through any number of hubs before it gets here and one problem along that line could cause a problem.)Your storage space is full. You are provided 3GB of free space with your free WordPress.com account, but once full, additional media cannot be added.
You can purchase the Space Upgrade in order to gain more space for your site. If your image files are large, you may want to optimize the images before you try uploading them. To make sure you have a good connection to the server, you can try clearing some of your temporary internet files. Filenaming It is best to stick to letters and numbers only. . ↑ Table of Contents ↑ Color Profiles Help us improve: We're always looking to improve our documentation. Image Settings. You can customize a variety of settings for each and every image uploaded to your WordPress.com blog’s media library. There are a few ways in which you can access the settings for your images, so we’ll outline all of them for you here. You can modify a few settings for your images directly from your media library, which can be accessed from within your dashboard via Media -> Library. Once in your blog’s Media Library, you can hover your pointer over any of the images and choose the Edit option that appears (you can also simply click on the image’s title).
You can edit some of the image’s settings, as shown below. Title – Image title to be displayed when the image attachment page is viewed or when the image is viewed as part of a gallery or carousel.Alternative Text – Displayed when images don’t load. These settings cannot be changed: After you modify any of the settings, make sure to click the Update button at the top right to save your changes. ↑ Table of Contents ↑ Within Posts. FAQ for MLB.com Bloggers. Howdy, MLB.com bloggers! Welcome to your new home at WordPress.com. We’re excited to have you blogging with us! We have prepared a short FAQ to answer any questions you might have about the transition from Movable Type to WordPress.com.
If you have general questions about how to get started using all of WordPress.com’s great features, please read our Introduction to WordPress.com guide. We also have extensive support documentation and can be contacted directly if you have any questions. And don’t miss our guide for new users to learn WordPress.com. Help, I can’t login to my blog! Before you can login to your MLB blog on WordPress.com, you need to activate your WordPress.com user account. If you have not received your activation email, please double-check that it was not mistakenly filtered to your email’s Junk or Spam folders. You can request to have a new activation email sent to you by visiting this tool at MLB.com and entering the email address you used with your MLBlogs.com account.
Image Alignment. When inserting images into your posts and pages, you can have your text wrap around them to promote a more attractive flow of content. This is a snap using the left and right alignment icons in your Visual Editor. To begin, place your cursor at the beginning of any paragraph in the current post or page: Click the Add Media button above the editing area. Insert your image. After the image appears in the editor, click on the image once, and click either the left or right alignment button to modify the position of the image and how text wraps around it.
Left Alignment ↑ Table of Contents ↑ Right Alignment Side by Side If you would like to see images appear side by side on the same line, put the images next to each other and give them both either left or right alignment. Help us improve: We're always looking to improve our documentation. Gallery. Image galleries on WordPress.com are a great way to share your pictures with your friends, family, and your followers.
An image gallery will display a set of small images attached to a particular post or page. Readers can click on any image to launch a full-size carousel that allows them to scroll through the entire gallery one image at a time. With the slideshow option, images will automatically move from one to the next after a few seconds. Gallery Styles You have three choices for how a gallery will be displayed in your post: a thumbnail grid layout, a tiled mosaic-style layout, or in a slideshow. All sites default to the thumbnail grid style.
You can also style each gallery individually. Tiled layouts can display in one of three styles: rectangular tiles, square tiles, or circular tiles. When clicked, gallery images are displayed in a full-size carousel view, which you can customize from the Image Galleries Carousel section of the Media Settings. ↑ Table of Contents ↑ Gallery Shortcode. Image Editing. For each image uploaded to your WordPress.com blog’s Media Library, you have some basic editing options (crop, rotate, flip, and resize) available. Opening To access these options, first go to Media -> Library in your blog’s dashboard. Once there click on the name of any image you wish to edit. Click on the Edit Image link to reveal the advanced editing options: The screen will load and look like the following: ↑ Table of Contents ↑ Cropping You can remove any unwanted portion of an image (like an ex-boyfriend) you have uploaded to your media library by using our cropping feature.
First, click and drag with your mouse to select the portion of the image you want to keep. You will then have your new image: If happy with the result, click Save. Rotating You can rotate (clockwise or counter-clockwise) any image in your media library using the appropriate icons above the image in its editing screen: Be sure to click Save in order to finalize the image rotation. Flipping Resizing Undo and Redo Reverting. Flickr Photos. Flickr is a web-based photo management application which allows users to upload, organize, and share their favorite photos. It takes care of your image resizing, allows you to tag your photos, and even enables visitors to submit notes and comments on each photo.
What’s more, with just a few clicks, you can post a photo from your Flickr account onto your WordPress.com blog. Flickr Embeds You can also embed your Flickr images in your WordPress.com blog. To do this, select one of your Flickr images, click the “More ways to share” icon, select “Grab the link” and copy the link: Then, simply paste that link on its own line in a post or page in your WordPress.com blog and your image will appear, linked to your Flickr image: ↑ Table of Contents ↑ In addition to blogging your photos directly to your WordPress.com blog we also have a Flickr widget that makes it easy to show thumbnails of your latest Flickr photos in your sidebar. Troubleshooting Help us improve: Unattached Files.
When viewing your blog’s Media Library (Media → Library), there is a filter that shows your Unattached files. If you click on the Unattached link, all of the media files not associated with a post or page (i.e. you did not upload them from within a post or page) will be displayed. Attaching files (images, specifically) to a post allows you to use them as part of a Slideshow for that post or page. Reattaching Files Clicking the Attach link will start the process of attaching the file to a post or page. You can also attach multiple files at once: check the box next to each file name that you would like to attach, then select the Attach to a post option in the Bulk Actions drop down menu, and finally click the Apply button. When attaching items, this screen will pop-up: First, type some text into the search box, select either Posts or Pages, and click the Search button. Then, click the radio button next to the post or page you would like to attach the files to, and then click the Select button.
Media – Add New. By clicking Add New on the Media menu you can upload images, audio files, videos and other files to your Media Library without having to start a new post. The Add New screen lists your allowed file types, allows you to select files to upload, and shows your remaining upload space. Note that to upload audio files or increase your available space you will need to purchase a Space Upgrade.
To upload video files, you will need to purchase VideoPress. Simply drag and drop your files into the box that appears, or click Select Files to choose a file from your computer to upload. Please keep in mind that the drag and drop uploader only works in browsers with HTML5 upload support such as the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, or Safari. When a file has finished uploading, you will see a Edit link on the right. Clicking on the Edit link will allow you to edit the Title, Alternate Text, Caption, and Attachment Page Content for a file.
We’ve had good success with file sizes up to 1 GB. Uploading and Inserting Media. SoundCloud Audio Player. Accepted Filetypes. Deleting Files. Zemanta for Recommended Links, Photos, Articles. Audio. Slideshows. Scribd. Images. Shortcodes. Google Docs. Google Maps. LaTeX. Google Calendar. Uploading Documents. Videos. Media Library. Image Optimization. Flash vs. Browser Uploader. Excel Web App. SlideShare Slideshows.