Title: Adding video to WordPress Sidebar
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Adding video to WordPress Sidebar

 *  Resolved [Ham Radio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ham-radio/)
 * (@ham-radio)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-video-to-wordpress-sidebar/)
 * Hi Everyone!
 * I have been trying to add a video to my WordPress sidebar without much success.
   I would like to be able to do it with a self-hosted video if that is possible.
   I have tried using FlowPlayer, and JW player with I don’t want to have to rely
   on YouTube, Vimeo, or any other video hosting companies. I am only planning on
   having two videos so bandwidth shouldn’t be a problem. Any help would be greatly
   appreciated. Thanks!

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 *  Thread Starter [Ham Radio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ham-radio/)
 * (@ham-radio)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-video-to-wordpress-sidebar/#post-4148032)
 * Hm, sorry about that. It posted before I was done. Anyway, basically, I would
   like to put a self-hosted video in my WordPress sidebar. Thanks!
 *  Thread Starter [Ham Radio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ham-radio/)
 * (@ham-radio)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-video-to-wordpress-sidebar/#post-4148451)
 * Any Ideas? I really could use some help here. Thanks!
 *  [bemdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bemdesign/)
 * (@bemdesign)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-video-to-wordpress-sidebar/#post-4148452)
 * Have you checked out [http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody](http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody)?
   
   Using that approach you could simply write your own html code for HTML5 video
   playback (with fallback) in a Text widget and add that to your sidebar. You would
   need to manually manage where the video files reside on the server though.
 *  Thread Starter [Ham Radio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ham-radio/)
 * (@ham-radio)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-video-to-wordpress-sidebar/#post-4148453)
 * Nice!!!! That is awesome! Thank you!!!!!!

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 * [sidebar](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sidebar/)
 * [video](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/video/)

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 * Last reply from: [Ham Radio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ham-radio/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-video-to-wordpress-sidebar/#post-4148453)
 * Status: resolved

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