Video on Mobile WordPress – the answer!! *** Yeeha!!

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    simthomas · Member ·

    If like me you’ve found WP to be the most awkward and poorly documented program you’ve ever come across, you’ll be interested that I’ve found, I think, the best way to get videos onto the mobile app. Not the only way (you can probably do it fine with VideoPress if you want an expensive solution, but this is FREE!!!!!)
    I’m about to go on travels to Africa, and am not taking a laptop – just my Galaxy S2, so I wanted a way to post not only diary notes and photos (which the mobile app does well) but also videos taken on the smart phone.
    After numerous emails back and forth to WP support, which got me nowhere (I’m sure they tried but, honestly, PLUGINS!!! Don’t ever mention that word again.)
    Crazy thing is, Mobile WP does have an option for uploading videos to your blog, but it doesn’t work. Support said I could modify the MIME-types to allow mp4 to be uploaded but, as I say, plugins and FTP server protocol don’t really do it for me.
    Best way – and it seems complex but really is straightforward, and it works:
    1. Get a YouTube account so you can upload videos to it.
    2. Take the video on your phone.
    3. On the phone when looking at the video (in Gallery or whatever), menu… share… YouTube
    (That option should be there if you’ve accessed your YT account through the smartphone before, if not you can upload it from the other end, from YT)
    4. Upload it to YT. It may take a while, and has to be “processed” by YT before you can proceed. You can check upload progress on the notifications screen on your phone or on YT itself.
    5. Go to YT (on your phone presumably but it works on a PC too). DO NOT use the Mobile YT app – open the full desktop version of YT through Opera or whatever browser your phone uses. Make sure you’ve signed in. If at any point YT reverts to the Mobile version there’s a “Desktop” option to click near the bottom of the YT screen.
    6. Find “My channel” which is where your uploads are, select UPLOADS and then select your uploaded video.
    7. Underneath the video there should be a tag to select, “Share”, then select “Embed”. The Embed code appears, select it all then COPY it.
    8. Go back to the WP blog, the mobile one on your phone. You’re doing all this on the phone remember. Create a new post, or edit an existing one.
    9. In “Content” hit Paste, then finish editing the blog post and Publish as usual.
    10. Again, takes a while to upload (this time from your phone to WP as opposed to YT!). Check your blog – the video screen should be there to click on. I found it wasn’t always there – closing all other apps seems to help. It always appeared on PC version of WP.
    I really hope that helps.
    Simon

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  • staff-blorbo · Staff ·

    The YouTube embed code will not work on WordPress.com, you need to follow this guide: http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/youtube/

  • staff-blorbo · Staff ·

    Also, as for “poorly documented” have you seen http://en.support.wordpress.com/ and http://learn.wordpress.com/ ?

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    simthomas · Member ·

    Yes i certainly did read that support, but honestly, it assumes a much higher level of IT understanding than most people have. I appreciate wp mobile being free but so are all my other apps and they are much easier to understand. Why have an option for including videos in the post content when it don’t work?

    And the embed codes work just fine on the mobile app, and in wordpress.com.
    Simon

  • staff-blorbo · Staff ·

    Do you mean the option for including videos from the mobile apps? You need a VideoPress upgrade, which is required to unlock the ability to upload videos anyway: http://en.support.wordpress.com/videopress/

    This is already detailed in the apps via a pop-up notice when you attempt to upload a video.

    Also, sorry on the YouTube code. We just started converting the embed code a few hours ago.

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