How to Put an Autoplay Video on my Wordpress Site?

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So I want to put a video on a page of my Wordpress site and I want it so that the video autoplays when you visit the site. I don't want to put the video on youtube and embed that way. I uploaded the video to my hosting and tried using the code:
<embed src="URL"
autostart="false" />

But it gave me that "download plugin" message in place of the
video. I don't want people to have to download a special plugin
to see my video, that'll turn them off. I'm planning on using
paid traffic to this page, as well, so that would be bad.

I see Wordpress has the "add video" button which I tried but
my video is 13 mb, well over the 8 mb limit.

I have a special squeeze page theme which makes it simple, but
this is on a different domain and I have a different domain
which I am using, so I can't use that theme in this case.

If anyone has any advice I'd really appreciate it. I feel like
it shouldn't be as difficult as I'm making it out to be.
#autoplay #put #site #video #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author Abledragon
    If you search for WordPress video plugins you'll get a whole lot of results. Install one of them on your site and it will give you a point and click interface for embedding videos in a page or post, one of which will be the option to auto play or not.

    It is sometimes inevitable that visitors will be asked to download a plugin - if they don't have Flash installed on their machines for example. Nothing you can do about that.

    Cheers,

    Martin.
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  • Profile picture of the author haymanpl
    The advantage of hosting your own videos on your own server and embedding them in your own site using a WordPress plugin with a video sitemap is you get your URL indexed by the search engines as opposed to Youtubes URL and you can still upload them to youtube as well.

    This tutorial also includes a link to another article explaining the benefits of during this and this video player plugin has many custom settings which includes auto play
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    • Profile picture of the author DonConrad
      The easy way to put Videos on any website is to create a YouTube account and upload to your YouTube account and embed your YouTube Video in to your website.

      This way I get traffic to the website and to your YouTube account.

      Just trying to help
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  • Profile picture of the author cherryberry
    for auto playing video on your site, you can search the net for plugin. It is not a big issue, what you should know is how to search the google.
    Try it, you will get positive results.
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    • Profile picture of the author Karen Blundell
      a word of warning, trentonlaura:

      keep in mind that having a video streaming from your own site could potentially eat up a lot of your bandwidth and your host may shut down your site if you use up your allotment. And even if you have a hosting account with so-called unlimited bandwidth, don't believe it.

      Unless you have a dedicated server you will run into trouble should you have many people watching your video at the same time. That's why many people either use YouTube or Amazon S3 for video streaming
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  • Profile picture of the author WinsonYeung
    You can host the video on AMAZON s3. Than install a plugin call "Video Embed & Thumbnail Generator" and you can embed the video directly in your post.
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    • Profile picture of the author danielepr
      you can use flowplayer: Flowplayer - Flash Video Player for the Web : Flowplayer (OPEN SOURCE)
      and embed the following:

      <script src="{your_flowplayer_path}/flowplayer-3.2.6.min.js"></script>

      <a href="{your_video_path}/{your_video_file}" class="{video_class}" id="player"></a>

      <script language="JavaScript">
      flowplayer("player", "{your_flowplayer_path}/flowplayer-3.2.7.swf",{

      plugins: {
      controls: {
      url: 'flowplayer/flowplayer.controls-3.2.5.swf',
      fullscreen:false
      }
      },
      clip: {
      autoPlay:
      true <---IMPORTANT
      }

      });


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  • Profile picture of the author ImagineMonkey
    Word of advice: Users generally don't react nicely to auto-playing videos or audio files. You can't be sure if their speakers are accidentally turned all the way up. Plus, users generally don't like things thrown in their face. They react better to having the option to click and browse on their own terms. Just because your video doesn't auto-play, doesn't mean that someone won't click it. They'd probably appreciate it more if you gave them the option to click, instead of throwing it at them.
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