In preparation for a training tomorrow, I am going to set up a few examples of putting audio and video files on a WordPress site.
For video, the easiest method is to embed a video hosted on a video streaming site such as YouTube or Vimeo. The benefit of this is that YouTube or Vimeo is hosting the video, saving your site valuable bandwidth. To do this, you first find the YouTube video (or upload it with a YouTube account) that you want to share. I found an Improv Everywhere video that I find hilarious. I clicked on “share,” then “embed,” and a window opened with code. I cut and pasted the code into the HTML editor of this post and voila!
To embed a video from Vimeo, simply find the video, and click on the embed button on the right side of the video frame. A window with code appears and prompts you to copy the code, which you then paste into the HTML editor.
Way Home from Erick Oh on Vimeo.
An important tip is not to switch back into the visual editor mode because your code will disappear!
