So here are the steps to add a downloadable file using your WordPress website:. Step 1 : Choose the file that you want to be downloaded. It can be in any format like image, video, document, or pdf.

The file will then be converted into a zip folder. Step 2 : Next, we need to upload the file in our WordPress media library.

Step 4 : In the editing menu, a URL is assigned to the file in the top right section. Step 5 : With the file URL copied, go to any post or page on your website. Select a word or a phrase and click on the link icon. Then, paste the URL and press Enter. You can similarly link an image, button, or any other element so that when the reader clicks on it, the download is triggered automatically.

If the events on your WordPress site are a custom post type, then you can simply add the youtube video URL in the event description or details area. And what about memory? It actually depends on what kind of website you want to build. Embedding more videos on a page may affect performance but you can always manage those issues by displaying fewer videos per page, using lazy load, or increasing server resources.

So for your business users, the question is not whether to host videos yourself or to link them in from YouTube. But rather, the question is whether to host videos yourself, or have them concealed.

I do prefer the former. My company has banned all social media sites including YouTube and Vimeo. My question on this topic is in regards to non-standard wordpress sites. To give a little context I use the wordpress platform to build sites for the contemporary arts. Now I can understand the argument to embedded rather than upload, which I agree with on a single video file. The idea is basically to build a site that can run a play list for the film screening, which could be used at the venue to stream in and projected, but as well give audiences not local to the event, an opportunity to go to the site and view the film screening, therefore give a greater degree of distribution.

So, as you can see embedding multiple videos from multiple sites because no artist seems to use the same platform… is difficult and probably not even an option, at least from my research.

So I was wondering if you guys had any recommendations? In terms of content management, I would ideally like to build something that a non-technical user could use after this initial screening. I am creating this for a small arts organisation, and they would be interested in using the platform again an again, so the ability for them to be able to change the playlist from the standard WP management system, with a degree of ease, would be key.

The site would have a simple layout with very few additional pages , and would only be used for this type of film screening projects. Mine is a language site, and it also will not have many pages other than those video pages.

The issue I am dealing with now is that the player takes up most of the room on the page, leaving little room to see the playlist. I am looking for help to resize the player and reformat the playlist. Any lessons you might be able to share on this? I am conflicted on this issue. I have created a number of content videos for marketing that I will sell on a subscription bases. Putting them on a youtube makes it more likely that people will rip it off where as in my personal site, I can control access base on setting up subpages and with login.

I have the same worry. What you could do is embed a video on your site using YouTube, but make the video Unlisted on YouTube. Therefore, whoever you want to see it from whatever access controls you have on your WordPress, can see it. It is not public on YouTube, just those who have had a link to it from your site. I wish everybody stopped telling what I should or shouldnt do.

Not sure on yours, but on mine I just upload it to the Media tab, just like a picture. In fact I do agree with this article most of the time, except I believe there is a way to make videos so that they cannot be hot-linked.

Having said the above there are cases where it is desirable to load a video in to the site. Take a peak at my landing page;. You will see about a 2 second delay — depending on your connection speed — where the screenshot displays as the video from the hotlink YouTube loads. I feel that if the video was resident on the site that would be a much shorter delay, if at all. If you locate the code that stops the hotlink I would be very happy if you would share it with me, but not really necessary.

I also think that i can do this from the server have my own but again been too busy to chase all this down. Any suggestions on how to deal with the excessive load the the YouTube player causes on pageload time? I found at least one way to remove those related video links here:. The first thing you should have made clear is that you are talking about self-hosting a WordPress site on Bluehost or Dreamhost, et. Second, the problem with using a video hosting service is you are limited in what can be posted.

If there is any doubt at all about copyright, for example, a video can be pulled and your account might even be shut down. Another option is to use Amazon Web Services. A basic S3 account is all you need, and it will cost extra, above and beyond whatever you pay for a Web hosting service, but unless you have an extremely busy blog — very unlikely for beginners — the expense will be nominal.

Hi I have a new blog. I used cloudup to embed a video into wordpress. I can view it on samsung phone, samsung tab, microsoft desktop computer, but my friends with iphones cant see videos.

Do you have any solutions. Kind regards Brenda. Once your video has been uploaded, copy the URL to your video. Return to your WordPress site and paste the URL into your post or page where you want the video to appear. Many thanks for this article. Just saved my bacon as we were about to upload video onto a website when it should have been an embed.

I have one quick question: Which plugin would you recomment to embed videos on wordpress websites that can use a fallback mechanism? Thank you for clearly explaining the difference between upload vs embed. Is there ever a good reason to upload? In some cases, like when you are concerned about privacy and usage rights of your video content.

I use uploaded videos because Youtube butchers quality. Lately even more than before. Please see our guide on the difference between self hosted WordPress.

I am trying to add audio to my webpage for class. Will you please help me figure out how to add audio to my page without having to pay for the premium plan. Hello to all. The above is very useful but I mean to add few more points for why not to upload video and rather to embed it.

Most web hosting providers limit the maximum size of uploaded files to 50 MB or less, prohibiting you from uploading video files that are longer than a few minutes or so in duration. Additionally, large media files may violate the terms of the Acceptable Use Policy with your hosting provider and result in your hosting account being shut down. If your video file resides on a single server with a limited amount of bandwidth, folks who attempt to watch your video may experience unexpected pauses during playback while their computer waits for the file to download or stream to their computer.

Generally, this means a p or p file at a high streaming bitrate — kbps. But how does your site know which of those files to serve to each person? There are dozens of excellent video players that will handle the video requsts nicely like the SublimeVideo Player , but WordPress 3.

But it gets a bit tricky…. So how about a tutorial of how to remove. I see one for how to add new ones, but none for how to remove the core-default ones that are allowed. Great article, however, if you want to keep your videos private, best is not to publish this on YouTube. If yo are looking to promote yourself your product or service, YouTube is the best platform to do this.

Is it possible to upload videos to sites such as YouTube and restrict viewing access except from my WordPress page. I shoot video at youth sporting events and would like to restrict access to parents and family by password protecting the videos from my site. Is this possible with YouTube? I am a newbie as well, but if there is a restricted page that is protected by a login, it may work. This may work with embedded videos as well, but I am not sure.

I hope this helps. The video will be made visible only to people who have the link. The plugin provides an option to define a class to it but my own css styling gets overwritten by the styling the plugin came with.

As I maintain highly stylised websites, this plugin is, alas, a no-go. I hope it gets fixed. Though it wasn't completely intuitive, I got this to work without any help, without it even taking very long, and that is really saying something. The cute little demo film provided by the developer clinched my success. I am very grateful to the developers--thank you!

Yes it is listed with all my plugins. Great plug in to be able to offer audio downloads and request donations! Does a great job thanks! Took me a wee while to get my head around how it works, now I love it.

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