Earlier this month Lawrence Matthews, a vzaar user, contacted me with a problem. He could not add his vzaar videos he uploaded to his blog. He uses WordPress.com and wanted to simply add the video embed code we provide into his blog. At the time this was not possible or at least it was not working in this manner. So we then recreated the problem at vzaar HQ, and indeed the blog did not accept the vzaar video embed code. Given the size of the WordPress.com user base we wanted to fix this problem. I reached out and got in touch with the good people of WordPress.com and explained our plight. It took a few weeks, but today I have been enlightened that there is a way to add vzaar video to your WordPress.com blog. Hurrrah!! I tried it out this morning, first thing, and I was very impressed.
WordPress.com have teamed up with Vodpod to create a smart blogging video button that you can drag on to your tool bar. Here is how it works.
1. When you want to add video to your WordPress blog simply click on the “post To Wordpress” widget in your toolbar and it will open up a pop up window offering you a set of fields with details on your blog.
2. If you do this on the vzaar page of your chosen video Vodpod will automatically insert the video from your chosen vzaar page into the Post Video To Your Blog box. If not then…
3. Simply insert the video code into the top left field marked, Video Preview.
Good work WordPress, we are impressed. I invite you to test it out and please share your experience.
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