Have you ever wanted to embed a video from your favorite video site into a WordPress post and didn’t want to go through the trouble of copying and pasting the embed HTML from the source site?

Viper’s Video Quicktags (VVQ) plugin tackles this media sharing hurdle, and is flexible with various customizable options based on your video embed needs.

Quick and Easy

It doesn’t get much better from a usability perspective, check out all of the new buttons you get on your post editor, pick your poison.

When you’re ready to embed, click the appropriate video service button and you get a nice simple popup with an area to add the link to the video.

I’ve added a great video from YouTube on how to install VVQ, this will give you a good idea of what it looks like with my custom dimensions.

General Settings

VVQ not only supports over 10 of your favorite video sites, you’ll get better control of how the video’s display on your site directly from the plugin settings pages. Now that you have a general idea of what it does, and how easy it is to use, lets go over the various custom options you have at your control.

The general settings are straight forward. Listed are the various supported media types and it allows you to define the video dimensions of your choice with a maintain aspect ratio option. You can also add an edit button which you may find helpful.

Lower in the General Settings tab, you will also see that generic video files are supported but will be greeted by a disclaimer and link to a great help page briefly explaining the difficulties of using generic video files due to cross-browser issues. The easy fix is to convert your files to Flash format which is relatively easy to do and also something I would recommend.

Additional Settings

Here are a few more settings, and some advanced features of the VVQ plugin.

You can align the video’s to your liking as well as add specific text to show in your feeds. There is also the option to use Windows Media Player for regular video file playback for Windows users.

The Advanced settings on the Additional Settings tab provides Dynamic QTObject loading and custom CSS to style the video display.

Video Service Settings

Viper’s Video Quicktag plugins has also included seperate settings pages for some of the video services supported by the plugin.

I think the neatest thing in the settings area of VVQ is the preview option. It enables you to specify a video so you can see what it will look like as you customize.

Depending on the service you are using, the settings page allows you to do so some cool things like styling the default player by changing border and fill color or even setting color presets.

Again dependent on the service, you may also have some miscellaneous options like allowing full screen viewing capability and loop video playback.

All of the options will differ dependent on the settings allowed by the video service integration into the plugin.

Viper’s Video QuickTags FAQ’s

Have a question? VVQ has included a good FAQ’s section to help answer your questions.

If you have more questions or need further support, make sure to visit the VVQ Support Forum.

What’s Our Vibe

VVQ does a great job of making life easier when adding video to your WordPress site. It will definitely save you time and effort, and best of all, it is flexible and customizable.

Make sure to visit viper007bond.com for more information. Drop a comment and let them know how much you enjoy their great resource, I know you will :)

Download link: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/vipers-video-quicktags.zip

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