![]() ![]() That is it, if all went well you should have a video that is posted on your WordPress website and streaming from your Dropbox account. Step 5: Save your post and test to make sure it works! ![]() Customize these setting to your liking and click the Insert JW Player button. Step 4: Now click the Add Media button and that will bring up the screen to set the parameters for your JW Player display. Now you will see a place to paste the URL for the media you want to stream. You can access this by clicking the Add Media button in your WordPress post, then click the External Media option in the Add Media Panel. Step 3: Now that you have the link you need to embed into your WordPress post with the JW Player plugin. Step 2: You will now need to browse to your file to Copy Public Link to use for embedding the video on your website with the JW Player plugin. This allows the proper permissions so that the video can be streamed on your website. Step 1: You will need to put the video you want to stream in your Dropbox Public folder. ![]() Here is a Sample of a Video Streaming from Dropbox Here is the Tutorialįor those of you liking step by step instructions see below. For the sake of this tutorial I sharing what I think is the easiest way to get your video online quickly by using Dropbox and JW Player plugin for WordPress. It is important to note that you can use other video plugins to accomplish this, or just use LongTail Video wizard to get the player setup. So to make this work very well for WordPress we will be using the following: This can also adapted to work on any website with some tweaks in the steps to meet your platform. In this quick tutorial, I will show you a quick way to host your videos on Dropbox and embed them on your WordPress website. Similar to using Amazon s3 it provides a great way to host videos on your website without having the streaming take away the bandwidth from your site. One nice feature is the public folder, it offers you an easy to use option to share videos and embed them on your website. However, Dropbox now integrates with WeVideo that allows you to have a free account and publish your videos.ĭropbox is a powerful cloud storage platform offering many ways to share and collaborate with your files. Updated November 22/2018: This does not work now for the free account of Dropbox and JW Player. ![]() Oops, I dropped My hoop Want Website Video? Host it On DropBox ![]()
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