Adding Video from Vimeo to WordPress

How to embed or add a Vimeo video into a WordPress site, step-by-step.

Tutorial text (extracted)

Adding a video to Vimeo and adding it to a page



How to upload a video:


  1. Log into Vimeo

  2. On the top right hand side of the page click upload:




  3. Drop the video file into the middle of this window:




  4. The video will now be uploaded. Add details related to the video in the menu on the right.


   5. Once tags, description and title have been added click Publish at the top to make the video live

      and ready for use.




   For more detailed guides see ‘How to upload videos to Vimeo.docx’ and ‘How to upload videos to

   YouTube.docx’ – both being highly regarded as the consummate works on the subject.

Adding the video to the page:


1. Once the video has been uploaded to Vimeo, select the end part of the URL as shown in the

   picture below.




2. Locate the page where you want the video.

       •   Either create a new page or choose an existing video page.

       •   See below for the new page button located in the Insights section.




3. we will use a Video page for this example – set both the Content type and Folders to Videos:


4. Add the code copied previously to the Vimeo code box as shown:

    (Note this was from the end of the Vimeo URL in step 1)




    Note: Avoid adding the video to the Vimeo video box. We are not using this component.




5. Follow the format of similar video pages and check the page is correct before publishing, checking the date

    and previewing the page.

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