Transcript for VideoPress Basics For WordPress.com: Getting Up & Running

In this short tutorial,

we'll get you set up with VideoPress for WordPress.com.

So the first thing you're going to need to do is go to Upgrades

and purchase the VideoPress upgrade if you don't have that already.

You can use PayPal, or you can also use your credit card via PayPal to do this.

Optionally, you can top up some extra space if you need to.

So now, when I write a post, I click on this video icon,

and I can bring in things from my media library,

or I can upload a video directly, so I'm going to click on that,

select a video, and that's going to upload for me.

It's a good idea at this stage to add a title

and any other meta information,

because that's going to appear in the RSS feed of your video.

I can also decide if I'd like people to not be able to share it

by embedding, or the standard, which is that people can embed it.

I can set a rating—now "G" is the standard,

but obviously if you've got more mature content,

you can change that here—

and finally, I've got the shortcode for embedding,

which I can actually copy here, should I want to email it to someone

or something else like that. I can also access that same information

by clicking on the "Embed" section of the video here

where I've got the WordPress.com shortcode for other WordPress.com users,

which I can copy right to my clipboard with that button.

And also, the fuller embed code for people

that are using self-hosted WordPress or other web pages,

so the options are open there.

You'll want to use this other one for anything other than a WordPress.com blog

but it also means that you can share the video pretty much anywhere on the web.

Once I'm happy with all that,

I just need to click on "Insert Into Post"

and I'm now going to see a small piece of shortcode

in my post. It doesn't matter if it's the HTML or visual editor;

the result that I'll get when I publish looks like this,

with a full "HD On" button people can turn on

to enter full HD mode,

full-screen mode, so they can really take advantage

of that high-definition video; and of course, the different embed options.

Good to go!