Wordpress – Miracle Tutorials

How to create a Vimeo Montage widget

Via Vimeo you can create a Montage widget displaying thumbnails of your videos on your site. This replaces the old Badge widget, which did more or less the same thing. When the visitor clicks on a thumbnail, it redirects to the video on Vimeo. This is different from the Hubnut, which is a fancy playlist feature which keep … Read more

Embed a YouTube video on WordPress 4.3 or higher

Embedding a YouTube video on WordPress 4.3 (or higher) is very easy. Here is a short tutorial how to accomplish this.

NOTE: this post is retained for historical purpose only. The plugin described herein is no longer on the market since end 2019 but some of the information is still useful. Private streaming video/audio with JW Player 7 on WordPress is now possible with S3Media Stream Enterprise 7.7.1, our WordPress plugin that works via private RTMP distributions and Web distributions on … Read more

Update on WordPress vs Joomla

Just a short notice that we revised our article on WordPress vs Joomla – Review (revised) Since this article got a lot of attention and things have moved on over the years, we revised it to reflect the current stable versions for WordPress 3.6 and Joomla 2.5. In some areas, both CMS have come closer together … Read more

Protected download links on WordPress, who needs it?

If you want to offer videos or audios for download, or actually any file type on your WordPress site, but you do not want the links to be leeched on other sites, you might be interested in this free WordPress plugin; S3Media LinkSafe Lite 1.0. It creates expiring links to files on your S3 bucket … Read more

How to skip to a chapter in a video with JW Player?

A chapter is a place in the timeline of a streaming video. It can be anywhere in the video and there is no need to define chapters upfront. With JW Player 5.10, you can add chapter links to any part of a video or audio. This is very useful in lengthy videos/audios which cover several … Read more

Best wishes for 2010 !

Dear readers, I wish you all the best for this new year with its magical name two thousand and ten!
I shall be honest with you: I’m happy 2009 is over. It was a stormy year for most people, I think. But this year I feel there is going to be a fresh wind and the doom and gloom of last year will disperse. For the time being, let’s celebrate at least that we survived another year 🙂

Create your own video channel – part 4/4

The last part of this series: Preparing your video for streaming, uploading and embedding the video, branding your site and the video player. After those steps, you truly will be able to run your own video channel. However, this is the most challenging part of the series. Retrace your steps if things go wrong and … Read more

Creating your own video channel – Part 3/4

In this tutorial we cover installing and FTP application, upload a template and activate a theme in your system, whether it is Joomla or WordPress. But first, we have to find you the right template theme.

Revised on 18 August 2020 – This is not a pro-contra review. In this article I try to give you some pointers to make it easy to chose between the two popular content management systems. The basic difference between WordPress and Joomla is that Joomla is a portal- or community type site while WordPress is … Read more

Embedding video & audio in WordPress – revision 3

This tutorial is outdated. We will update it soon. In the meantime, please have a look at Embed a youtube video on WordPress instead. We keep this post published because it contains comments that have useful links. But the content has been stripped because it is no longer valid.

WordPress: blog & content management into one

It’s obvious that blog owners tend to favor their own system as they grow to like it, but WordPress is an absolute necessity when in comes to user friendliness and SEO. If blogging is your business then you should consider WordPress as it is thé choice of most prominent marketing gurus. The programmers of WP … Read more

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Joedyl on What is an expiring link and how to use itDoes anyone know what website or tool that provides URL's that expire that is dependent on the user?
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MKDan on What is an expiring link and how to use itAnother easy way to create expiry links is by using the temporary expiring link generator like - Exp
Phil on How to embed a video from Vimeo in WordPress without iFrameCrazy, but 9 years on I'm still able to use this tutorial, thanks for sharing!
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