Check how popular your Jetpack VideoPress videos are, with Jetpack Stats.
Jetpack Stats, including video stats, are only available in the Jetpack plugin. If you’re using the individual VideoPress plugin and want stats for your videos, please install the Jetpack plugin as well.
Video views have their own section within the Jetpack Stats page under Jetpack > Stats in your WP Admin.
In both WP Admin and WordPress.com, video stats are on the Traffic tab.
You can also find Jetpack Stats on your Stats page on WordPress.com.
Scroll down to find the video stats section.
Jetpack VideoPress videos on your site are listed by title, along with how many views a particular video has received.
To view detailed stats for a video, click on the video’s title.
Click on View details to view more detailed stats for all videos.
Impressions: The number of times a video was loaded on the page.
Hours watched: The total number of hours that the video has been watched by all viewers.
Views: The total number of how many times the video was played.
Chapters are a great way to split up longer videos and organize them into different sections. Your visitors can see what each section is about and skip to their favorite parts.
Click the “Done” button once it is finished uploading.
Navigate to the block settings for the video in the editor sidebar. Make sure you’ve clicked on the VideoPress block in the editor section of the screen, then click the ‘cog’ icon below the Publish button to make the block settings appear.
In the Description box, add a list of timestamps in minutes and seconds, along with corresponding chapter titles.
Make sure that the first timestamp starts with 00:00.
Add at least three chapter entries, in consecutive order, with at least 10-second intervals between each.
For example:
00:00 Intro 00:24 Mountains arise 02:38 Coming back home 03:04 Credits
Click on the Text Tracks icon in the block toolbar, as shown below:
Click on Upload track to upload your .vtt file. The Label and Source Language fields will automatically be populated if nothing is inserted.
Click Save.
When you preview your post, the subtitles menu will appear in the Jetpack VideoPress player, with your subtitles track as an option for viewers to select.
It is not possible to associate a .vtt file for closed captions to a file directly in the Media Library. The VideoPress block must be added first. However, when you upload a track file to the video via the above steps, it gets associated with the media file itself. If you reuse the video file elsewhere, the track will be already in place.
Viewers can use the Captions Settings menu in the VideoPress player on the front-end of the site to customize the appearance of the subtitles or captions.
Display your videos on any post or page on your site, using our quick shortcodes.
Find a shortcode via WP Admin
Go to your WP Admin.
Click Media.
Click on the video you need a shortcode for.
Copy the shortcode in the video details.
Get a shortcode from WordPress.com
Go to WordPress.com, select your site from My Sites.
Click Media.
Click on the video you need the Shortcode for
Click Edit.
Copy the Shortcode in the video details.
Use VideoPress shortcodes in your posts and pages
To insert a video using a shortcode:
Directly paste shortcodes into any of your posts or pages, or you can add via a Shortcode Block.
Your video will not be displayed while editing, you will only see the Shortcode Block. Click Preview to see how your video looks and make necessary edits.
Head back to your page or post you are building to make any necessary changes via Shortcode attributes which are listed below:
Get control over your VideoPress shortcodes with attributes
Copy and paste your Shortcode as outlined in the above steps.
Add attributes before the last bracket on your Shortcode, as shown in this example:
[videopress uhAZ9tzd attribute=value]
You can add a range of different attributes for your video, in just one Shortcode.
If you wanted to change the height to 200 and width to 600, enable autoplay and loop your video, it will look like this:
freedom=true/false to force only use open source video formats
autoplay=true/false to automatically play the video when it loads
loop=true/false to automatically play the video over and over
controls=false to hide the default video controls when displaying a video
*VideoPress uses Adaptive Streaming to adjust video quality based on display size and bandwidth. The hd=true/false attribute only works for legacy videos uploaded before Adaptive Streaming. It doesn’t affect the playback quality of new videos.
Embed videos on a different site
The VideoPress shortcode can only be used to display videos on the site the video was uploaded to. To embed a video on a different site:
Make sure sharing is enabled for the video.
View the video and click the share icon.
Copy and paste the Embed (HTML) code.
Related Support Articles
These articles go over topics that are helpful when using Jetpack VideoPress via either plugin:
Host your videos on WordPress.com rather than your host’s servers. Your videos will load more quickly on your website, and not take up any space from your host’s storage limits. Take control of your branding, and say goodbye to third-party players’ logos on your site.
The latest version of WordPress. If your version of WordPress is out of date, you’ll see a prompt to automatically upgrade with a single click, or can upgrade manually.
A WordPress.com account. Don’t have one yet? Sign up for one here, or create one during the Jetpack connection flow. You only need one WordPress.com account to access all our services (including Akismet, Crowdsignal, Gravatar, and WordPress.com itself). If you use any of these services, you already have a WordPress.com account to connect to Jetpack. You can reset your WordPress.com password if you need to.
A publicly accessible WordPress site: no password protection or Coming Soon / Maintenance Mode plugin in use.
Go to WP Admin -> Jetpack -> My Jetpack. Then click, Purchase.
Once purchased, VideoPress will be enabled for your site. Click Manage to view VideoPress Settings:
Make sure VideoPress is enabled on the management page in Settings.
You can select your site-wide video privacy here and see your VideoPress storage usage.
Activate VideoPress with the VideoPress plugin
If VideoPress is the only Jetpack feature you want to use, then the single plugin is probably the best option for you. This dedicated plugin also creates a VideoPress dashboard directly in WP Admin, where you can upload and manage all of your videos. Take
Add your first video
You can upload videos a couple of different ways:
Upload via WordPress.com
Upload via VideoPress Block
Upload via the VideoPress Dashboard (if you have the VideoPress plugin active)
Please read more in Uploading Your Videos, including full details about video format requirements.
In the right sidebar under Block Settings, scroll down to Video Privacy.
Select Site Default, Public, or Private option for that video.
When you choose Private only members of your site will be able to view the video on your post or pages. Non-members will see a message that the video is private and for members only.
Advanced Settings
To restrict all videos on your site to members only, toggle on the VideoPress setting “Video Privacy: Restrict views to members of this site.” This setting is available with both the Jetpack plugin and the Jetpack VideoPress plugin.
Upload videos from your computer to be hosted our servers, rather than on your host’s, using the WordPress Classic Editor.
To learn more about adding HD, ad-free video hosting to your WordPress site, check out Jetpack VideoPress.
This page describes how to use Jetpack VideoPress when using the Classic Editor plugin or a Classic block. We also have instructions for the standard block, which will unlock all of VideoPress’s features.
Insert a video
To add a video to a post, follow these instructions:
In the post editor, position the cursor where you’d like the video to be displayed.
Click the “Add Media” button to bring up the Media Library view.
From that view, select your video, or upload a new one.
Jetpack’s video hosting supports MP4 (.mp4, .m4v), QuickTime movies (.mov), Windows Media Video (.wmv), Audio Video Interleave (.avi), MPEG (.mpg), 3GPP ( .3gp ) and 3GPP2 ( .3g2 ).
The VideoPress seekbar automatically changes color for a better video-watching experience. The color-changing effect can be activated and deactivated by appending the useAverageColor parameter to the VideoPress video URL and setting it to true or false.
Adjust video settings
After embedding a video, adjust its settings:
Select the video.
Click the pencil icon
Update the settings as needed. This includes:
Adjusting the video width in pixels
Selecting a custom time to start the video
High definition by default
Link the video title to its URL on VideoPress.com (if this is unselected, the title only will appear, without a link)
Autoplay video on page load
Loop video playback
Adjust sharing settings
By default, your visitors can click the sharing icon in the top right of the video player to reveal the following sharing and embedding options:
Direct URL to the video (at VideoPress.com)
Start time
Loop
Autoplay
HTML Embed
To disdable sharing:
Go to the Media Library.
Select the video.
Uncheck “Display share menu and allow viewers to embed or download this video.”
Note: Disabling the sharing options removes the functionality from the video player, but it is still possible to download the video from your browser. We take reasonable steps to prevent embedding on other sites by hiding the sharing options, which should stop most attempts.
Video stats
All videos come with stats tracking, which can be viewed within your Jetpack Stats. You can scroll down and find the “Videos” stats.
Jetpack’s Video block enhances the existing WordPress Video block and allows you to upload videos from your computer to be hosted on WordPress.com, rather than on your host’s servers. You can then insert these videos into posts and pages on your Jetpack site.
Note: this page describes how to use the Video Block when using the Block Editor. You can find instructions on adding a Video on the Classic editor here. For general features and FAQs, please see our marketing page.
You can add the Video block by searching and/or selecting it from the Jetpack section of the block selector:
Be sure to select the Video block rather than the VideoPress block as these are different.
See Jetpack Blocks for detailed instructions on adding blocks.
Adding a Video
You can add a video directly within the block itself by dragging the file to the block or using one of the three buttons: Upload, Media Library, and Insert from URL.
Upload will allow you to upload a new video file from your computer.
Media Library allows to you select any video file that’s already been uploaded to your library, including those that have been uploaded to our servers.
Insert from URL allows you to insert any video URL, both from Jetpack’s video hosting and third-party services. If you insert a URL from another supported block type, such as YouTube, the Video block will automatically transform into a YouTube block.
Links added to the video block from external services will transform into their respective block.
Once the video is embedded in the page, you can add an optional caption if desired.
Block Toolbar
The video block toolbar supports all alignment options.
As with the image block, the Video block can be inline-aligned with the paragraph below it by clicking the left-align or right-align icons.
Edit Video
The edit option in the Video block’s toolbar will allow you to select a new video file for your block. Use this if you need to replace the video file in your block.
Block Settings
Every block has specific options in the editor sidebar in addition to the options found in the block toolbar. If you do not see the sidebar, simply click the ‘cog’ icon next to the Publish button.
The block settings can be found in the sidebar.
Autoplay, Loop, & Muted
These options let you set your video file to autoplay when someone visits the page or post. Looping lets you choose if the video file repeats after it’s finished. You can also choose to mute the video if your circumstance requires it.
Note: some browsers do not respect the autoplay settings, so that setting may not work in all browsers. You may need to enable mute for autoplay to work in those instances.
The block settings include Autoplay, Loop, Muted, Playback Controls, Preload, and a Poster Image.
Playback Controls
Toggle this option to show or hide the playback control overlay on the video.
Preload
This option allows you to select how much of the video file is downloaded when the page or post is loaded. While it may be tempting to go ahead and have the whole file download automatically, keep in mind that this can slow your page’s load speed down.
There are three settings:
None – Nothing about the video file is downloaded automatically. The download of the video file only begins when your visitor clicks the Play button. This is the fastest setting.
Metadata – Only basic info about the file will be downloaded automatically. Like the None option, the download of the video file only begins when someone clicks Play. This setting is also very fast, as the only thing downloaded is text. On a fundamental level, there’s not a big difference between None and Metadata.
Auto – The entire video file is downloaded, regardless of whether the visitor clicks the Play button or not. This makes the biggest impact on your page or post’s load speed, especially with larger video files.
Poster Image
Optionally, you can choose a poster image that will be displayed before a video is set to Play, this can be useful if the first frame of the video isn’t necessarily appealing or indicative of the video content.
Advanced
The advanced tab lets you add a CSS class to your block, allowing you to write custom CSS and style the block as you see fit.
The advanced section lets you add a CSS class to your block.
This feature is deactivated by default. It can be activated/deactivated at any time by toggling the “Enable high-speed, ad-free video player” setting in the Video section at Jetpack → Settings → Performance in your dashboard.
Data Used
Site Owners / Users
In order to track video plays for your stats, we will send the site ID, post ID (on which the video is played), and domain name of your site with these events.
If Google Analytics tracking is enabled, some video information (size, quality, format, file name, ID, etc.) will be sent there, as well.
Please refer to the privacy documentation for WordPress.com Stats and Google Analytics for more information on the data used to record video play tracking.
Site Visitors
Please refer to the privacy documentation for WordPress.com Stats and Google Analytics for more information on the data used to record video play tracking.
Activity Tracked
Site Owners / Users
Video plays.
We track when, and by which user, the feature is activated and deactivated.
Jetpack provides creative and performant solutions for you to showcase photos and videos without slowing down your site.
Videos
Jetpack VideoPress
To display videos on your site, Jetpack VideoPress offers a clean and ad-free player designed to put your content in the spotlight. Its deep integration lets you manage everything directly from WP Admin, and upload videos directly to VideoPress which helps to save site storage space on your web server. Also, VideoPress benefits from state of the art CDN which ensures the delivery of high-quality playback at the ideal bitrate and resolution.
Jetpack VideoPress is available to anyone with a Jetpack Complete or VideoPress plan, and you can try it out for free for one video with a file size of up to 1 GB. If you’re ready, get started here!
Loom block
You can easily embed a Loom video by using the Loom block which comes by default with Jetpack.
Photos
Jetpack offers a variety of options to showcase photos on your site.
Performance with Images
Image CDN (formerly Photon) is an option included in Jetpack’s Site Accelerator. By hosting your images from our servers, we alleviate the load on your server and help provide faster image loading for your readers.
To showcase you photos in a creative way, Jetpack offers a variety of blocks:
Tiled Gallery block, to display your image galleries as a tiled mosaic, circular grid, square tiles, or tiled columns. Then, you can enhance the gallery display by activating the Carousel option, this will launch a gorgeous full-screen photo browsing experience of the gallery.
Slideshow block, to showcase an image slideshow into a post or page.
Image Compare block, to display and compare the differences between two images side by side (or above and below).
Story block, to combine photos and videos to create an engaging, tappable, full-screen slideshow.
Open License Libraries
Need a hand finding beautiful images for your content? You can do that by tapping into libraries offering openly-licensed images, thanks to:
Openverse Media Library Support which gives you access to over 600 million Creative Commons licensed and public domain image files.
Pexels Free Photo Library, it includes over 40,000 beautiful copyright-free images to use on your site.
Integrate with Third-Party Services
Do you use Google Photos, Instagram, Pinterest? Or envoy communicating through GIFs? If so, you can integrate them all on your site with:
Google Photos integration, connect Jetpack to your Google account to use your Google Photos in Jetpack’s image-related blocks.
Latest Instagram Posts block, to display your most recent Instagram images on your site.
Pinterest block, to embed yours or other’s Pinterest content on your site.
GIF block, easily search for and embed an animated GIF image from Giphy directly into a post or page on your site.
