How to add a Video to homepage of website

Just login to wp-admin. go to posts on the left menu, then add new post..On the new post page you may see a ADD MEDIA button right over the post title field..click. If you want to upload the video then chose Video from the drop-down list you see on top.
or if you want to put a youtube, vimeo or any other link just click “Insert from URL” link on the left.

Hope this helped, do let me know if you need any other help.
Thanks

Zolumns, THANK YOU for the quick and accurate response. It worked like a charm for a separate post BUT what do I need to do to put the video on my Primary Sidebar and when clicked it opens to bigger video and starts playing?

Could you send a link to your homepage? I’d like to take a look at it. You should be able to accomplish that with a plugin.

Psa234, Thanks for the response. Here is the link to my homepage: . Let me know what you think and how can I accomplish my task. Thanks,

cotorsmproperty, If its not a post, then maybe you can try to embed video or maybe give a link of video. Are you familiar with HTML?

It looks like this plugin may work for what you’re trying to do. It creates a thumbnail and a “lightbox” (that pop-up thing that moves to the middle of the screen and plays your video) for your videos. Here is the link – https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-video-lightbox/

Now, I’ve never used that plugin, so I don’t know how well it works, but there are good reviews on its page.

As a side note – I hate pop-ups, songs that automatically play, and videos that automatically play on a site. You may want to just let the user have the option to play it instead of forcing them to watch it every time they visit your site.

Zolumns- Thank You for the suggestion, NO I am NOT familiar with HTML. How would I use that for what I want to accomplish?

PSA234- Thank You for your suggestion also. I agree with you that I DO want to give the visitor the option to play. So using the plugin and using the You Tube link, that should do it right?

I read lightbox description and notice it spoke to changing the “Short Code” followed by codes, I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO DO THAT. I am a rookie. Any advice on who to do that?

It should. What I would do is this:

1. Install the plugin.
2. Create a post with a video in it using the plugin.
3. Make sure that looks like you would want it to be on the home page.
4. Go to the “Text” side of the post editor and copy all of the HTML there.
5. Create a Text Widget and put it in the widget area where you want the video to be.
6. Paste the HTML into the text widget.
7. Delete your post.
8. Check to see if everything works and reply back on this forum. ?? ??

Hmm, Maybe you should upload the videos on youtube.

Add the following code where you want the video added.In this code remember to replace the url with your video url and set the desired height and width.
<iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/FoixIeOiRv0″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>

This could be one simple way to add video