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JW Player for WordPress – Flash & HTML5 Video Player

This video plugin is provided by LongTail Video Inc. It enables you to embed Flash and HTML5 video using the JW Player on your WordPress website.

Requirements

  • WordPress 2.8.6 or higher
  • PHP 5.0 or higher
  • The wp-content/uploads directory needs to be writable by the plugin. This is likely already the case as WordPress stores your media and various other uploads here.

Usage

  1. Go to Site Admin > Settings > JW Player Plugin
  2. Click on the button to create a player.
  3. Configure the Basic flashvars.
  4. (Optional) Configure Advanced flashvars and add plugins.
  5. Save your Player.
  6. Create or edit a post.
  7. Click on one of the Upload/Insert buttons
  8. Using the Media Library tab, you should be able to edit your media.
  9. For a video you want to insert, click the Insert JW Player button.
  10. It should insert a tag that looks like the following: [jwplayer config="<Player name>" file="<your video>"] into the body. <your video> is a url to your file. The "config" attribute is only need when using a player other than the default.
  11. Save your posts.

Requires: 2.8.6 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.3.2
Last Updated: 2012-5-11
Downloads: 257,268

Average Rating

3 stars
(68 ratings)

Support

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