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How To Add A Custom Video Widget To A Wordpress.com Blog

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Services for Real Estate Pros with Vidlisting.com

Know someone that has a Wordpress.com outside blog that wants to be able to embed custom video widgets there without having to upload the videos again to Wordpress?

Did you know that there is now a way to upload real estate videos and podcasts to a site and get access to code that works on Wordpress.com blogs or other blogging systems that block certain types of code without doing anything special? Our example is likely best demonstrated on a Wordpress.com blog:

http://forsalebylocals.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/initial-examples-of-our-vidlisting-video-widgets-for-wordpresscom-blogs/

Click the above link to see the widgets in action on a live wordpress.com blog. The new widgets do the full range of things that normal videos widgets do - they report back the location of the widget, the number of times rendered, and the number of clickthroughs. They also autoupdate on the page when you change the title, photo, language of content, or the size of widget. Soon, we'll add all of our different non-branded designs.

You can see examples of the regular widgets side by side with their wordpress counterparts here: http://vidlisting.com/beta/e.htm

Making video content discoverable means getting your content where others cant while still providing marketing feedback. The new widgets work with Real Estate Shows and Youtube videos too.

I'm unaware of any other video hosting sites that are making this capability available. This feature is live at Vidlisting for all newly uploaded videos at http://upload.vidlisting.com - we plan on backporting the capability to existing videos over the next week as time as resources permit.

Let me know if this feature is helpful or not....

Tony

See Also:

How To Help Your Visitors Preview A Video That You've Uploaded

DJ Swanepoel
Real Estate Wiki - Los Angeles, CA

Exellent to know Tony, thank you. It sounds like a very useful widget:)

Oct 09, 2008 09:57 AM
A. Grey
Vidlisting.com - Bremerton, WA
Real Estate Video Mentor - Vidlisting.com

DJ: Thanks for stopping by and commenting.  Hope to see your uploads soon.

 

Tony

Oct 09, 2008 11:59 AM
Mara Hawks
First Realty Auburn - Auburn, AL
Inactive-2012 REALTOR - Homes for Sale Auburn Real Estate, AL

hey Tony, This is VERY helpful, and you are a treasure... I love to think that one day I will have these things figured out. It's wonderful to know of the resources you are posting here on your blogs. Thank you for taking the time to do this. With the economy going down the drain these days, it's such a contrast, to me, to realize the wealth of shared information and resources at our fingertips through Active Rain and related sights. There are so many amazing people, like yourself, in theis network and vast libraries of information. It is such a goldmine, and it seems to be FREE of charge (what?!!!)...hard to believe, isn't it? This is IT!

Oct 09, 2008 01:22 PM
A. Grey
Vidlisting.com - Bremerton, WA
Real Estate Video Mentor - Vidlisting.com

Mara:  You really are the best! :)

Tony

Oct 10, 2008 02:30 AM
Anonymous
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thank you

 

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Oct 24, 2008 04:14 PM
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Andrew Monaghan
The Monaghan Group - Glendale, AZ
CRS, GRI, EPro Associate Broker

Is there a cost for this? looks great.

 

Oct 25, 2008 09:22 AM
Troy Erickson AZ Realtor (602) 295-6807
HomeSmart - Chandler, AZ
Your Chandler, Ahwatukee, and East Valley Realtor

This sounds a bit complicated, as I haven't even started an outside blog yet.  I have heard of wordpress, but haven't gotten any further.  I will bookmark this, and refer back to it once I have my outside blog ready to go.  Thanks for the info.

Oct 27, 2008 07:27 AM
A. Grey
Vidlisting.com - Bremerton, WA
Real Estate Video Mentor - Vidlisting.com

Troy:  This special widget is only for use on wordpress.com blogs or other blogs that automatically edit widget code.  If you aren't using one of those blog types, you wont need to worry about it. :)

Tony

Oct 27, 2008 07:41 AM