Putting Camtasia Videos On A WordPress Blog
Today I was asked if there is a way of putting Camtasia 4.0 videos on a wordPress Blog. I had not done it before so I started researching the various wordPress Plugins. There are a number of them that will let you put your Youtube videos on a blog, or your FLV or SWF. But nothing for Camtasia. So I used this page to invent my method of doing that.
Would you like to add Camtasia screencast videos to your blog? There is a way. No, you can”t have the video directly in your blog page for several reasons. One is the width of your Camtasia video. If you are using a two column WordPress page your column width is about 440 pixels. And most Camtasia videos are 640 pixels. Another reason is that there are ten files that are needed to open Camtasia. You would need to have them all located with your video to make sure it would play. The simple solution is to use a hyperlink to the Camtasia video in your WordPress post. You could either use a simple text link to your video’’s location or add an image with a link to your video. And I suggest you open the video in a separate window.
So the hyperlink would look somethiing like this:
Here is what it would look like:
Click the image or here to watch the movie
Check out mightyseek.com/podpress … that is a plugin for wordpress blogs
Bob - Please checkout this post here (and its comments):
http://www.jackhumphrey.com/fridaytrafficreport/website-promotion/blog-marketing-videos/easy-video-embedding-trick-for-youtube-and-other-video-embed-codes/
Thanks Marc for that information. Though I must admit that I’m not using the WYSIWYG editor. So I don’t have that problem. But I bet a lot of others can use this advice.
No problem, Bob! The last comment (May 17th, 2007) under that post mentions that with WordPress 2.2 you may no longer need to change your ‘user options’ as was shown in the video by Jack Humphrey - Simply hit the “Code” tab and paste (or type) the embed code into the ‘Code’ area (at the end of what you’ve written) and then save.
This blog was started using an older version of WordPress. But when I reinstalled it I ended up with WordPress 2.2. And there are a number of changes so it’s probably true that you don’t have to make those changes to the suer options. I’m still trying to find fixes for all the pieces that I had originally that no longer work with this new version. Even the template changed.