Jetpack VideoPress Shortcodes

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.

Screenshot of video's settings from the WP Admin Media Library. The shortcode field is highlighted with an arrow.

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:

[videopress uhAZ9tzd h=200 w=600 autoplay=true loop=true]

Here is a list of available attributes:

w=X for width in pixels, do not include units
h=Y for height in pixels, do not include units
hd=true/false to force HD playback *
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.