Written on November 19th, 2006 at 12:11 pm by Darren Rowse
The Cheaters Way to Add Screencasts to Your Posts
The following reader quick tip was submitted by Jon Symons from Step by Step Blog:
Tired of trying to get the kml flashembed plugin to work and not wanting the standard, pop up window anymore, I decided to figure out a low-tech way to embed Camtasia style screencast videos into a blog post.
Make your screencast in the normal way and upload it to your server. You’ll end up with something like:
http://stepbystepblog.com/howto/video/BasicInstallPlugin/BasicInstallPlugin.html
As the address of the video. Then go to code view, in WordPress for your post that you want the video to show up in and add this:
<iframe width=”430″ height=”500″ FRAMEBORDER=”0″ SCROLLING=”NO”
src=”http://stepbystepblog.com/howto/video/BasicInstallPlugin/BasicInstallPlugin.html“></iframe>
Just swap out the URL in the example with your actual video and tweak the size to fit the size of your video and size of your blog page width and you’re in business.
2 Responses to “The Cheaters Way to Add Screencasts to Your Posts”
Luke Meshios
November 19th, 2006 1:45 pm
That’s a real handy tip.
thanks
Eric Giguere
November 21st, 2006 1:27 am
This is exactly how AdSense ads get placed on your page, by the way. For embedding content fairly seamlessly, iframes work very well. You can also use an iframe to embed an Amazon aShop on a page, just like I did for The HDTV Shoppe. If you’re not enabling scrolling, though, you really need to know the height and width of the framed object for it to work really well, which is one of the problems with the Amazon aStore. But with videos that’s easy….
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