24 Jul 2011

Having problems embedding Vimeo clips on your Wordpress blog?

I never figured out how Vimeo embedding could be so difficult. It works sometimes with the regular embed code, but 95% of the time, it doesn't. So if you use Vimeo AND Wordpress.org, this will be useful for you.

Here's what you need to do: 

1. Install this Plugin called "Lux Vimeo / Vimeo Short Code". Activate plugin.

2. Use the Vimeo short code: [vimeo clip_id="XXXXXXXX"] (Copy the clip ID from the Vimeo URL, e.g. vimeo.c*m/25796195)

3. If you want to further customized the display size of the clip on your blog, title/byline settings, HTML5 settings, etc., read this.

Compatible up to WP version 3.2.1.

Wordpress should take a leaf out of Posterous' book, and allow simple embedding of videos and pictures simply by adding a URL into the body of the blog post!

Anyway. After embedding your video, it looks like this (with default settings) : Sample Blog Post with Vimeo embedding using Lux Vimeo