Play any YouTube video as background of your WordPress blog
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Any WordPress user can now set a video as blog background – it can be really beautiful!
WordPress has just approved the porting of jQuery.mb.YTPlayer component for their platform: mb.YTPlayer background videos.
From today you can easily include any video hosted on YouTube directly as background of any post or page you are publishing with WordPress; just download the plugin, install it, use the settings panel to add a background video to the homepage or the short code as explained in the linked page, to add it to any post or page of your blog.
You can configure it to show progress bar and controls, set video opacity, loop it or mute it.
The background player will adapt its size to the screen optimizing its view in order to prevent the display of black strips due to different aspect ratio.
Give it a try at: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmbytplayer/
Hey, GREAT GREAT plugin – will definitely donate.
Only suggest I have is that ‘feature photo’ doesn’t work with this (overlaps the video).
Specifically, it would be great to have a feature video if slow connection (instead of showing blank).
Also more importantly for mobile, no background appears then.
Thanks!!
Ist really nice !!! but on my page wor it hust one the home site . how can y chance it?
Hi Patrik,
Actually the WordPress plugin doesn’t have any methods to work with YT playlist links.
It is one of the TODO in the feature list.
Bye,
M
amazing!!can it play a full playlist link from youtub and if yes is there a code for that thak you again.you band tecnology.
Hi Calvin,
Unfortunately Vimeo doesn’t offers a chromeless player API and this is a first requirement to make the background video possible, otherwise you would see all the vimeo tools on your background too…
Hope Vimeo one day will give as the right instruments 🙂
Bye,
Matteo
This is awesome, any future support for vimeo?
sei un fottuto genio
Hi MB, that is really good work mate! Particularly like the way how fast it loads and the controls at the bottom.
Cheers
Sam / jQuery4u
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