Viper’s Video Quicktags is the best for embedding movies

By Miriam Schwab • June 10, 2007 • 6 Comments

After trying out many of the plugins available for helping WordPress users embed videos in their posts and Pages, the one that I find to be the best is Viper’s Video Quicktags plugin. Once activated, you can select which types of videos you want to become available on the editor. You can choose from YouTube, Google Video, IFILM, Metacafe, MySpace, Vimeo, Quicktime, generic video file format, and Flash (flv). Once you select the video formats, these appear on your visual editor as icons.

Viper’s Video Quicktags

All you have to do is click on an icon, and a pop-up window asks for the URL of the video you wish to embed.

Viper’s Video Quicktags>>

Author: Miriam Schwab

Miriam is the friendly CEO of illuminea, a WordPress design and development agency, and Strattic, a static publishing platform for Open Source CMSs. Miriam is a huge fan of WordPress and has been using it for over ten years. In addition, Miriam has organized the past five local Israeli WordCamp conferences.

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very good
Black Hornet

I’ve been trying to work on a plugin of my own that would take inline links of various media and add the appropriate embeds to play them – sort of like how del.icio.us Playtagger works, but on the server side without any Javascript (I have way too much of that as it is!).

So far I have something working for WMV and MP3 files, but I was also considering doing one for Youtube as well.
Miriam Schwab

Black Hornet – a plugin like that would revolutionize the way we use media in WordPress (ok, maybe I’m exaggerating a bit, but…). It would mean we could use all media types easily by just inserting a link in our posts.
Ryan

I use a mod for SMF which does that. It works like a charm. I previously had my forum setup to display YouTube videos when the URL’s were wrapped in [youtube] tags, but most of the time people forgot or couldn’t remember how to. It would be important to make sure there’s a way to escape the link in case you want to display the link by itself though.
Black Hornet

The problem I had was when multiple links were in the same line. But if they are on separate lines then there’s no problem. I’m gonna look into it some more this week.

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