I should really make you pay for this theme, but since I’m in a generous mood I’m giving this one away free of charge! This “Videos theme” will cater for all you Vlogging needs. A theme dedicated to displaying video posts and an orderly and most importantly, easy manner.
So if you ever wanted to run you own “No sweat” Vlog (Video Log/Blog), you can do so now with my Video Theme. Making use of the most simplest of wordpress functionalities, you can embed your own Videos, YouTube, Meta Cafe, MySpace, Veoh and many more.
Download
Video Theme v1.1 (unknown, 15,796 hits)
Features
- Multiple Color Schemes
- Dark or Light Layouts
- Built-in ‘Recent Videos’ Widget
- Embed personally hosted videos (.flv)
- UPDATE: Embed from any site
- Embed from supported videos sites:
- YouTube
- Meta Cafe
- Daily Motion
- Vimeo
- Veoh
- Break.com
- Blip
- MySpace
- Live Leak
- Hulu
- More to come, on request…
- Video RSS Support
- Add multiple Videos form different sources to a post.
Update
Users are now able to embed from any site that grants embed code for their video material. Also note that you can add a image still (poster frame) to the front of your custom FLV videos. When adding a custom FLV video add the key “start_image” to the custom fields. This image gets automatically re-sized to fit the player.
Information
Name: Video Theme
Version: 1.1
Compatibility: WP 2.5+
Live Demo
Installation
Download theme, unzip and upload to wp-content/themes/. Activate and enjoy!
Usage
Adding a video to a post works by adding “Custom Fields“. Enter the following Keys for the respective videos types: any, custom, youtube, metacafe, dailymotion, blip, veoh, vimeo, myspace, break, liveleak.
Then in the Value field add only the code of the video. Usually very easy to find in the address bar of the video you want to add.
Examples:
If the video you wanted embed into your post was: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbgySMqRO1Y
- Key: youtube
- Value: vbgySMqRO1Y
If you wanted to embed anything into your post use the embed code the service provides:
- Key: any
- Value: <object width=”425″ height=”344″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/3IN7yJWi … </embed></object>
Please note that the height and width will get replaced by a predefined amountsIf you wanted to embed your own hosted FLV video into your post use the direct url along with adding a image still before the video plays:
- Key: custom
- Value: http://<youraddress>/wp-content/videos/video.flv
- Key: start_image
- Value: http://<youraddress>/video-player.jpg
Please note that the video does not need to have any predefined directory, just a direct address.
Here is an example of what you must do with Meta Cafe videos:
Previews
Limitations
This theme was not made for blogging. If you do make a post and not add a video, there will just be a large gap where the video is suppose to go. Also, a posts content can’t be too much otherwise it might out grow the length of the video block. Sorry about that. Also .MOV file formats are maticulously difficult to embed onto the web. I still have to find a way of doing this.
This theme was sponsored by Videos.Blueworld.co.za.
Dude, that is seriously a cool theme…
Very outside the box, I like it!
This theme has got to be the best video theme I’ve seen so far. You’re right – you should have made us pay for it – but I’m glad you didn’t.
I agree… this is the nicest free theme ive ever come across.
How to add a serach for site in this theme !!thanks
@Stii, @ChrisM, @Leanne, @Brady:Thanks for the compliments. Must appreciated.
@milya: Add the ’search’ widget in the wordpress backend. Then place it where ever you want it in the sidebar.
i will use this theme in my project. i want to ask some questions fot this theme.
1 Is there any problem in footer.php file code?
2 theme use custom player (jw player) but all of the file in theme folder.
Is com folder neccesary? Can i delete this folder?
good theme but i have a little problem.
i just want to add embed code.
i will copy full code from video site.
what should i do?
i tried to change functions.php but it seems not working.
http://www.fungblog.com
can you help?
@heytbecom: The footer has been encrypted. I did that to preserve back links to my site and the project i did it with. It’s not that hard to work around it but would prefer if you keep my meta info intact. Thanks.
@jack: I see your delema. I think I’ll make a quick edit to the Function.php file and add the ability to add any embed code to a post. Please check back soon.
Multiple Color Schemes
where to choose colour?
If I add my own hosted flv movies is there anyway to make a picture show before it starts instead of the blank black player?
Can you add to embed supported videos sites to video.google.com?
Or how can we do?
Brilliant theme!
When embedding my own hosted video, how do I set a poster frame?
thanx
Kristjan
@bret: No sorry, the flv player does not support that kind of functionality.
@arda: video.google.com is Youtube. So just embed with that.
@kk: What do you mean poster frame?
By poster frame I mean a still picture at the beginning, before you hit play, Same question as Brett I guess. So If I link to metacafe or Youtube or whatever the player shows the picture from that site, but if I host the FLV myself I can’t set a picture?
This is not a limitation of the JW flash player. I have that elsewhere on my site, via a plugin, and it works fine. Any chance this feature will be added? Appart from that the theme is soooo cool, very clean and neat, but I’m not going to be able to use it if the films are just black at the start!
kk
It would be very cool if there was support for Quicktime .mov files.
An change this could work with hulu?
Update: I’ve updated the Video Theme. Now it allows you to add a start image to the front of your FLV movie. You can embed ANY video now and Hulu has also been added. Seeing that one can embed anything now, it makes me wonder why I split it up to start with… enjoy and keep me updated so i can keep on improve this theme.
Very cool. I can see loads of potential for this. Nice going.
Foxinni,
Great job you did. I’m trying to modify your theme for my needs. So far so good, it’s a pretty clean theme (codewise).
Nice theme!
I dont know why, but the theme size is too small, while I dont use text, but only display videos. I am working with WP v2.6. Anyone experience the same?
i am search for video and content theme.video theme is verygood
Hi Foxinni,
Just the theme I was searching for. Will let you know how it turns out as soon as I finish tweaking my site.
But thanks in advance.
perfecto
Hi foxinni,
Anyway to put the blogroll in the home page?
How do I make one video related to another? Is it on the basis of tags, categories, or something else?
Thanks in advance.
wow thanks
This theme is perfect for video blogging, 5 stars
Hi there, great theme, however, I am unable to get my first test video to work. The video keeps loading but nothing appears. I have used ‘custom’ value and direct URL for the video. The video is a ..wmv file.
i am planning to use your theme in my new site.
fantastic theme. Having an issue where Comments don’t show up. Anyone have any ideas?
thanks man LD this is fucking awsome
wow. thank you.
justin
Is there a way to specify which category to display in the latest video widget? Right now it just shows the most recent post, regardless of what category it is in.
An change this could work with hulu?
HI foxini,
Is there anyway space can be provided for widgets and Ads. Perhaps a bottom bar. I’m thinking about using this theme but there isn’t enough space for hosting Ads. Presently, I’m using the German Newspaper theme as a video blog.
Great theme, thanks for making it available to us to use.
Thanks for the great theme! It’s awesome that it’s free. You don’t see much out there for free that is actually DECENT! Thanks!
totally awesome.. i’ve seen few free video themes.. but this one is the best!!!.. thanks a lot.
Would you be interested to release the theme of the Romania Videos portal http://www.turismatic.com ?
I request Revver to be added to the supported video sites.
Awesome theme! Thanks for sharing it with us. I am using it on WP2.7 and I wonder if there is any way to get the sidebar widgets to show from the home page??
Also page functionality breaks if you set the permalinks to “Day & Name” or “Month & Name” I really prefer to use “name” for SEO purposes. Is there a solution to this?
Thanks!
PK Vegas
it’s very nice theme.
Thanks so much.
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hello,
I like your nice template. I try using it but I have a problem to which I’d love a solution.
Is it possible to make a playlist (launching automatically a video to the next) mixing .flv on my own server and video websites like Vimeo?
Many thanks in advance
Hello!
May you help?
I’d like to use russian Vkadre.ru, video.mail.ru
But if I choose copy-paste, for example:
nothing happens.
May you help me to add this video?
Thanks
There is an error on the Post a Comment wording when you see the post.
Malan, thank you for this beautifully simple theme! Its perfect for the vlog I’m starting – 99.9% PERFECT…. 00.1% Viddler support?
Thanks again, Mark
On your demo page for this video theme, i clicked on a category (music). this is what i got:
Warning: extract() [function.extract]: First argument should be an array in /home/foxinn/public_html/videos/wp-content/themes/videopress/videos.php on line 6
that’s awesome!great theme! you rock!
Hello. And Bye.