Videos make your site interactive, convey information effectively, and improve your visitors’ experience. This guide will show you the many ways you can add videos to a WordPress website.
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Ask our AI assistantYou can upload a video file directly to your WordPress.com site using one of two blocks. The Video block plays your file in a standard player, while the VideoPress block adds an optimized, branding-free player with extra features. The block you choose determines the plan you need.
The Video block uploads a video file and plays it in a standard player. The Video block is available on the Premium plan and above.
The VideoPress block uploads your video and converts it to an optimized, branding-free player. VideoPress includes 250 GB of dedicated video storage and features such as privacy controls, chapters, and video stats. VideoPress is available on the Business and Commerce plans. Here is an example of the VideoPress player:
To learn how to add a VideoPress block to any page or post on your site, visit our detailed VideoPress guide. For a full list of supported video file types, see the Accepted File Types page.
Embed a video from the popular video service YouTube. Here’s an example:
Visit our YouTube guide for more.
You can also embed videos from many other video services. While videos from many popular services will embed automatically by placing a link to the video in your post or page, we also have detailed guides for several video sites:
