How To Embed A Video In The Presentation Page Columns

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  • August 26th, 2013 at 20:39 #11640
    Rory

    Hi,

    As my topic title states, I would like to know How To Embed A Video In The Presentation Page Columns. I am using a 3 column look and would like one of them to feature latest videos.

    I tried linking the site address (Youtube) in the text box to no luck. I tried embedding the video information as well with the same results. Perhaps this is an easy fix and I am just overlooking it, or it can’t be done, you tell me.

    Cheers, Rory

    August 29th, 2013 at 14:38 #11786
    Zed
    Cryout Creations mastermind

    The presentation page fields (most of them) support shortcodes.
    So you’ll need to use a plugin that lets you embed videos via shortcodes (like Jetpack does)

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    September 5th, 2013 at 04:31 #12040
    Teri

    heya

    can you expand on this a little bit. I am a non-coder.. but did go into plugins and installed what looks like shortcodes that will allow video to work.. but had no luck. youtube, obviously, embeds within WP pages with no difficulty… not sure what i missed re shortcodes and embedding into the columns:)

    Teri

    October 22nd, 2013 at 12:46 #13148
    Robert

    Hi

    Was there any resolve on this. I have activated Jetpack tried to enter a shortcode into the image field for column 3 on the presentation field without any success.

    Am I missing something here or is the column image field 3 not able to take a shortcode.

    Thanks

    Robert

    October 22nd, 2013 at 13:11 #13150
    Jim

    Hi Robert

    I managed to do this, I used a plug in called “Youtube shortcode” I created the shortcode using a draft WP page. Then I pasted the short code into the Column Text area, leaving the other fields blank and saved.

    I hope this helps

    Jim…

    October 23rd, 2013 at 01:24 #13161
    Robert

    Hi Jim

    Thanks – that really did the trick and a bit humbled that I spent time trying to work out why putting the shortcode in the image field wouldn’t work – all because I had in mind that I was going to put text in the text field. A bit rigid, I know.

    But to press on now….. and work out how I can get a box around the text that is now sitting under the video, and a box that has shadow at that, not to mention rounded corners.

    The sad thing is that although I’ve come to agree with Zed that video on the frontpage actually detracts …. I still have to see whether it can be done.

    Thanks again

    Robert

    October 24th, 2013 at 20:37 #13188
    Zed
    Cryout Creations mastermind

    The text fields support (basic) HTML, so you might pull it of by writing something like
    <div class="myppbox">column text goes here</div>
    then styling that div using custom CSS:
    .myppbox { border: 1px solid #666; border-radius: 10px; }

    I did not test this and I’m not sure exactly what HTML tags and attributes WordPress filters out of the code. You can try various things… even using tricks to achieve this (like placing the text inside a <span> and then using this custom CSS tag #front-columns .column-text > span { }

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