Add a Video Using the Classic Editor

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:

1. In the post editor, position the cursor where you’d like the video to be displayed.
2. Click the “Add Media” button to bring up the Media Library view.
3. 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:

1. Select the video.
2. Click the pencil icon
3. 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:

1. Go to the Media Library.
2. Select the video.
3. 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.