The Jetpack VideoPress Dashboard

Upload and manage all of your videos in one place across three tabs: Library, Stats, and Settings.

You can try VideoPress for free with hosting for one video (up to 1 GB in file size), or get unlimited video uploads with 1 TB of storage through the standalone VideoPress plan, or the Jetpack Pro or Jetpack Complete bundle.

RequirementsMD

To use VideoPress, you need one of the following plugins installed:

• The Jetpack VideoPress plugin, a dedicated tool for video hosting.
• The Jetpack plugin (version 16.0 or later) for broader Jetpack features.

You also need the VideoPress module enabled. To enable it, go to Jetpack → Settings → Performance.

VideoPress libraryMD

The Library tab is where you manage your entire video collection. From here, you can upload, browse, search, and filter all your videos, as well as edit video details, change privacy settings, and apply bulk actions.

Add or remove videosMD

You can add new videos to your library by dragging and dropping a file directly onto the Library page, by clicking the “Upload video” button to browse your computer, or by clicking the “Record a video” button to record from your camera.

When a single video is uploaded, the video editor will automatically open, allowing you to edit the title, description, privacy, sharing, downloads, and rating whilethe video is still uploading. A placeholder in the player area shows the filename and upload progress. Click Save to queue your changes they are applied automatically once the upload finishes

If you previously uploaded videos to your site’s Media Library, those files are stored on your web host rather than on VideoPress servers. You can convert them by hovering over a local video’s thumbnail and clicking Upload to VideoPress. Converting transfers the file to VideoPress servers and removes the local copy from your site, so save a backup first if you want to keep the original.

To learn more about uploading your videos to VideoPress, see Upload your videos on Jetpack VideoPress.

To remove videos from VideoPress, hover over a video’s thumbnail, click the three dots in the top right, then select Delete.

Record from your cameraMD

On the Library page, the “Record a video” button captures footage from your camera and sends it to VideoPress. Filters and edits are processed in your browser, and nothing leaves your device until you choose to upload. Recording is available on sites running Jetpack 16.4 or later.

Before you record, check these requirements:

• A page served over HTTPS.
• A browser with MP4 recording support. Without it, the window reports that video recording isn’t available in this browser.
• Camera and microphone permission for your site. Jetpack requests both at once.

In an empty library, the “Record a video” button sits in the upload area next to “Select videos to upload“. On the Free plan, it’s disabled once you reach the plan’s video limit.

To record a video, please follow these steps:

1. Go to Jetpack → VideoPress in WP Admin and select the “Record a video” button.
2. When your browser prompts you, grant camera and microphone permission. Jetpack displays “Waiting for camera and microphone access…” until you respond.
3. Optionally, change how the recording looks:
   • “Mirror preview“: Mirroring is on by default and only affects what you see on screen. The uploaded file isn’t flipped.
   • Filters: Pick Original, Vivid, Warm, Cool, Mono, or Vintage. Jetpack bakes the selected look into the footage, including any switch you make partway through.
4. Select the “Start recording” button. Select the “Stop recording” button to end the take.
5. Select the “Play preview” button to review the take. Drag the timeline’s trim handles to drop footage from either end, or select the “New cut” button to mark a middle section for removal.
6. Select the “Upload recording” button. While “Preparing video…” counts up, leave the tab in the foreground.

Once uploading begins, VideoPress treats the recording like any other upload, and the video editor opens so you can fill in its details.

Moving to a different tab ends an active recording, but Jetpack keeps everything captured up to that point. To replace a take, select the “Record again” button and confirm with the “Discard recording” button. The “Discard this recording?” prompt also appears if you close the window with footage you haven’t uploaded.

If Jetpack can’t reach your camera or microphone, fix the permission in your browser settings and select the “Try again” button.

Search and filterMD

You can search for a specific video by name or use the filters to narrow the list. The available filters are:

• Privacy: Public, Private, or Site Default
• Type: VideoPress video or Local video
• Uploaded: videos uploaded before or after a specified date

Adjust appearanceMD

You can switch the library between two layouts using the layout toggle in the top right. Grid view displays your videos as a collection of thumbnail cards, while Table view shows them as a vertical list with sortable columns.

You can customize which details appear in either layout by clicking the gear icon and toggling items on or off under Properties.

The gear icon also gives you access to these display options:

• Sort By: sort videos alphabetically by title or filename, or by date uploaded
• Order: further adjust Sort By by ascending (↑) or descending (↓)
• Density: control the amount of space between items in your library. Choose from three levels.
  • Comfortable: the most spacious layout, with the widest gaps between items. Easier to browse when you have a smaller collection or want to focus on individual thumbnails.
  • Balanced: a middle ground between spacing and the number of items visible at once. This is the default when viewing videos as a table.
  • Compact: the tightest layout, fitting more items on screen by reducing the space between them. Useful for scanning through a large library quickly.
• Preview size: adjust the size of the library items
• Items per page: control the amount of items that appear per page (10, 20, 50, or 100)
• Properties: control the details displayed for each item:
  • Title: video title
  • Thumbnail: video preview image (always shown)
  • Filename: the original filename from when the video was uploaded
  • Type: whether the video is hosted on VideoPress or stored locally
  • Uploaded: the date the video was uploaded
  • Duration: the length of the video
  • Orientation: whether the video is landscape or portrait
  • Privacy: the video’s privacy setting (Public, Private, or Site Default)
  • File size: displays the size of the video file stored on your site. For videos hosted on VideoPress, this displays as “0 B” because the file is stored on Jetpack Cloud rather than on the local site.

Manage video privacy in bulkMD

You can change the privacy of several videos at once from the VideoPress dashboard library using three bulk actions: Make public, Make private, and Reset to site default. These actions let you control who can view your videos without editing each video individually.

Each bulk action does the following:

• Make public sets the selected videos so anyone can view them.
• Make private sets the selected videos so they are not publicly accessible.
• Reset to site default sets the selected videos to follow your site’s default privacy setting.

To apply a bulk privacy action, follow these steps:

1. Go to the VideoPress dashboard library.
2. Select the checkbox for each video you want to update.
3. Click Make public, Make private, or Reset to site default.
4. Confirm the action to apply the new privacy setting to all selected videos.

VideoPress stats tabMD

The Stats tab of the VideoPress dashboard shows how your videos are performing. It includes:

• Views, Impressions, and Watch time: Three summary cards, each showing the current total and the change from the previous period. Select a card to update the trends chart below it.
• Trends chart: A line chart of daily activity for the selected metric. Change the grouping (days, weeks, or months) and the comparison period using the dropdowns above the chart.
• Most viewed: A list of your five most-viewed videos, with links to each video’s details.
• Top videos by watch time: A list of your five videos with the most total watch time.
• Date range: Use the dropdown in the header to show data for the last 7, 30, 90, or 365 days.

When you upgrade to a paid plan, the Cloud video storage module is added, which displays a usage bar for the percentage of cloud video storage available.

VideoPress settingsMD

From the Settings tab, you can adjust and configure site-wide VideoPress options:

• Only logged-in users can play your videos — Restrict video playback to logged-in members of your site. This applies to all videos by default; you can still override privacy per video. See video privacy settings for more details.
  
  
• Allow sharing — Show or hide the share menu (also called the share button) on every video on your site. When this is on, which is the default, each video’s own Share setting decides whether its player shows a share menu. When this is off, no video on your site shows a share menu, and you cannot turn sharing on for individual videos.
  
  This setting does not change who can view your videos or whether viewers can download them. You can also change it by going to Jetpack → Settings → Performance → Media and toggling Video Sharing: Allow each video to show its share menu.
  
  
• Automatically generate subtitles for new videos — When enabled, VideoPress creates subtitles automatically for each new upload. You can turn this off to stop auto-generating subtitles for future uploads. See adding subtitles to your videos for more details.
  
  
• Preload video data when pages load — Load each embedded video’s metadata and seek-bar preview thumbnails as soon as the page loads. This setting is on by default. Turn it off to make pages with many videos lighter: each video then loads its data only when playback starts.
  
  When this setting is off, it overrides the preload option on every individual video, so you do not need to change videos one by one.
  
  
• Load the player once per page instead of once per video — VideoPress serves every video on a page from a single shared player rather than giving each video its own embedded frame. Performance audits then report one player load per page instead of one per video. This setting is off by default. Turning it on also switches videos in posts you published earlier: VideoPress blocks, VideoPress shortcodes, and pasted VideoPress links. Two kinds of video still load in their own frame: videos in a Video Playlist block, and videos that have Video preview on hover turned on.

Edit video detailsMD

Open a video from the Library tab to view and edit its details. At the top of the page, you will see a fully playable video preview. This is a live embedded player, not a static thumbnail image. Click Play to watch your video directly from the dashboard and confirm its content before making any changes.

If your video was recently uploaded and is still being processed, the player is not available yet. Instead, a processing indicator appears in its place. Processing completes automatically, and the player loads on its own once it is finished. You do not need to refresh the page or re-upload the video.

You can view and edit a video’s details, including:

• Title: The video’s name.
• Description: Details about the video.
• Privacy: Who can view the video.
• Share: Turn sharing options on or off.
• Allow downloads: Let viewers download the video file.
• Rating: Set a content rating of G, PG-13, or R.

The details screen also shows read-only information you can copy: the video link, the shortcode, the file name, and the upload date.

Select Save to apply your changes. Save stays disabled until you make a change.

Add a video to new postsMD

The Add to New Post option embeds a VideoPress video directly into a new post, saving you the step of copying embed codes manually. WordPress automatically creates a new post with the selected video embedded. You can then edit and publish the post as needed.

Update thumbnailMD

Below the video preview, you will find the Update thumbnail control. This is how you set the poster image that represents your video in the Library and in embedded players. The thumbnail you set also appears in the large preview at the top of the page.

Trim and cut a videoMD

Trim & cut removes footage from the start, the end, or the middle of a video, and VideoPress updates the video in place. Trim & cut is available on sites running Jetpack 16.4 or later. On sites that run only the Jetpack VideoPress plugin, Trim & cut turns on by default in a release after version 3.8.

Open a video from the Library tab, then select the Editor tab. The tab opens on Trim & cut, one of two tools in the Edit section on the left. The other tool is Chapters.

To trim or cut a video, follow these steps:

1. Drag the trim handles at the start and end to trim the video.
2. To remove a section from the middle, select the “New cut” button. To delete a cut, select it, then select its trash button.
3. Use the Undo and Redo buttons to step back and forth through your changes, or the “Discard changes” button to return to your last saved version.
4. Select the Save button. In the Update video? dialog, select the “Update video” button.

Select the Fit button to reset the timeline zoom.

Viewers see the edited video once you update it. VideoPress keeps your original video, so you can restore it later. Existing chapters may need adjusting after the video finishes processing.

To go back to the original video, open the ⋮ menu and select the “Restore original…” option, then confirm in the Restore original? dialog. Restoring removes all saved and unsaved video edits, and viewers see the original video again.

Chapters editorMD

The chapters editor adds chapters to a video by placing them on a timeline, instead of typing timestamps into the description. To open it, select the Editor tab, then select the Chapters option in the Edit section on the left. See add chapters to your Jetpack VideoPress videos for the full guide.