This is a demonstration of the “video” block in WordPress. It serves a number of purposes, including displaying video uploaded to the blog itself (which we don’t recommend for blog.ryerson.ca) and embedding video hosted on an external site (like Youtube).
The video block
This block offers the following main options:
- Upload a video to the media library (not recommended for blog.ryerson.ca)
- Media Library – Embed a video already uploaded to the media library (not recommended for blog.ryerson.ca)
- Insert from URL – Embed a video using the URL of a compatible video streaming service (Youtube and Vimeo will both work here)
Note that there is no option here to paste in embed code. WordPress doesn’t always work well with embed code, for security reasons. It may strip out portions of the code, rendering it unusable or only partially functional. If a URL-based embed won’t work, you may try to paste the embed code into a Custom HTML block… but be aware that it may not work as expected.
Insert from URL – Youtube example
Upload / Media Library ~ why these are not recommended for blog.ryerson.ca
Our blog.ryerson.ca network has a limited amount of space, spread across many blogs. As such, we limit each blog to a certain amount of space. Video files can take up quite a lot of space – and most are larger than the 2MB per file limit.
Instead, we recommend uploading videos to external video streaming and hosting services, then embedding them in your blog post/page.
Other pages on this site demonstrate ways to embed video content from Google Drive (which is a Ryerson-supported solution), Youtube and other sources.