=== Kids in the House Video ===
Tags: widget, posts, shortcode, video, embed
Contributors: Kidsinthehouse
Stable tag: trunk
Requires at least: 3.0
Tested up to: 3.9.1
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Easily embed videos from http://www.kidsinthehouse.com – The world's largest parenting video library.
== Installation ==
1. Either Download/Unzip and Upload the folder kith-videos to the '/wp-content/plugins/' directory, or follow the automatic instructions for installing plugins for the WordPress.org plugin repository.
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu from the dashboard in WordPress (Same way you would activate any other plugin)
== Description ==
This plugin will allow you to easily add any video on http://www.kidsinthehouse.com to posts, pages and widget areas on your WordPress site.
After following the installation instructions above you are ready to embed videos. First find a video you would like to embed by visiting http://www.kidsinthehouse.com and browsing to the particular video you would like to embed on your WordPress site. Copy the URL of the video from the web browser's address bar, for example purposes here is a url to a specific video – http://www.kidsinthehouse.com/all-parents/parenting/parental-stress-and-anger/how-to-stop-yelling-at-your-kids.
**To Embed a Video on Posts and pages by using easy snippets (also known as short codes)**
Go to an existing page or post and add the the following snippet from within the visual or text editor
[kith videourl="URL of VIDEO"]
You may copy and paste this example if you want to and be sure to include the brackets [] and the quotation marks, so the only part that will be different is URL of VIDEO should be the full url of the video you want to embed from http://www.kidsinthehouse.com. To use our example video from above, the simplest snippet would be:
[kith videourl="http://www.kidsinthehouse.com/all-parents/parenting/parental-stress-and-anger/how-to-stop-yelling-at-your-kids"]
Save the post/page and view it and the video should appear.
You may want to customize various options for the embed video which is why a number of customization options are supported. After going over each option with a basic description an example will be provided that you can cute and paste to use for your site. Options you may specify in you snippet or shortcode include width, height, autostart, morelink and linktext.
*width is the width of the embed, usually in pixels, so you would put 640 for 640 pixels wide, this will also except a value of small or can be omitted if you do nto wish to specify an exact size.
*height is the height of the embed
*autostart determines whether the video automatically begins playing on page load
*morelink Underneath each video a link back to Kidsinthehouse is automatically inserted for visitors wishing to see more content from Kids in the House. This allows you to specify which page on KidsintheHouse.com this goes to. It could be the expert page or another video by the same expert, or the homepage, you can pick any kidsinthehouse.com URL. If left off, it defaults to the linking to http://www.kidsinthehouse.com
*linktext this is the text used for the morelink option mentioned above. If left off it defaults to For more videos on parenting visit KidsintheHouse.com
Example snippet (shortcode) you can use:
[kith videourl="PUT URL HERE" width="620" height="400" morelink="http://www.kidsinthehouse.com/teenager" linktext="For more videos on teenagers visit KidsintheHouse.com" autostart="TRUE"]
This is the method we recommended for most users, but if you want to embed a Kids in the House video in an area that is not a page or post, you may want to use our video widget.
** Adding Kids in the House videos to Areas that support widgets (Like sidebars, footers and headers) **
In the widget manager in the WordPress dashboard (accessible via Appearance -> Widgets), there will be a new available widget title "Kids in the House Videos" listed under available widgets.
Drag this widget to the area you want to add the embed video to. Click on the title of the newly dragged widget "Kids in the House Videos". A configuration form should drop down with various options you can customize.
The only one required is the video URL. First find a video you would like to embed by visiting http://www.kidsinthehouse.com and browsing to the particular video you would like to embed on your WordPress site. Copy the URL of the video from the web browser's address bar, for example purposes here is a url to a specific video – http://www.kidsinthehouse.com/all-parents/parenting/parental-stress-and-anger/how-to-stop-yelling-at-your-kids and put that in in the section that says "This is the video URL you want to embed" in the widget configuration form.
The others adjustable options are:
*width is the width of the embed, usually in pixels, so you would put 640 for 640 pixels wide, this will also except a value of small or can be omitted if you do not wish to specify an exact size.
*height is the height of the embed
*autostart determines whether the video automatically begins playing on page load
*morelink Underneath each video a link back to Kidsinthehouse is automatically inserted for visitors wishing to see more content from Kids in the House. This allows you to specify which page on KidsintheHouse.com this goes to. It could be the expert page or another video by the same expert, or the homepage, you can pick cany kidsinthehouse.com URL. If left off, it defaults to the linking to http://www.kidsinthehouse.com
*linktext this is the text used for the morelink mentioned above. If left off it defaults to For more videos on parenting visit KidsintheHouse.com
After filling out the widget configuration form, hit save and view your site. The video should appear in the area the widget is placed in. To add more videos, under available Widgets drag another instance of "Kids in the House Video" to the widget area you want the video to appear. This is the same way you added the first one above. You can create as many Kids in the House videos widgets as you would like by dragging the Kids int he House Videos box from available widgets to the desired areas.
== Trouble Shooting and Issues ==
When using the Kith Videos Embed widget, If the the embed size is larger than the aailable boundaries of the area the widget was placed (like a sidebar's width for example). Parts of the video may get cut off. If you run into this issue. Please use a width and height that are within the boundaries of you theme, change the widget area, or use the post / pages method to add videos instead.
== Screenshots ==
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== What is Kids in the House? ==
*Kids in the House* is an educational website about parenting. Our goal is to help parents and caregivers become better at parenting by **educating, inspiring and entertaining**. The 8,000 videos on our website feature interviews with the top experts in parenting, including physicians, psychologists, researchers, educators and best-selling authors, as well as leaders of national organizations. Our videos also feature parents who have dealt with particular issues and can share their hard-earned wisdom.
Kids in the House is a place where parents have the opportunity to hear and share different perspectives and get solutions for parenting challenges that range from pregnancy through getting into college. Kids in the House aims to be the most comprehensive resource for parenting advice, one which respects the fact that there is no one-size-fits-all solution.
The concept for Kids in the House came to founder, Leana Greene, as she was searching for answers herself, while striving to be the best parent she could be to her three kids. Leana loved to go to lectures featuring experts across all fields of parenting. She discovered that once she heard an expert say something, she connected with that person and could understand them in a whole new way. Many times, she would come away re-inspired for the daily grind of parenting. She knew that living in Los Angles gave her access to many experts that other parents might not have the opportunity to learn from. Her dream was to give parents everywhere access to quality advice in a quick and easy way, as well as, to create a resource where parents could share their wisdom to raise the consciousness of parenting.
To learn more and [watch expert parenting advice, visit KidsintheHouse.com](http://www.kidsinthehouse.com "Expert Parenting Advice – Largest Parenting Video Library").
== Key Features ==
* Creates widget of type "Kids in the House Video" which allows for placing an unlimited number of embedding videos in any widgeized region in your WordPress theme. Includes abilityt to set attributes like width, height, autostart, and more link location/text.
* Adds support for a new shortcode [kith videourl="http://www.kidsinthehouse.com/restofvideopath"] for easily embedding videos in posts and pages from within the wysiwyg editor.
| Author: | Kids in the House (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 3.0 |
| WordPress version tested: | 3.9.1 |
| Plugin version: | 1.0 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 25-07-2014 |
| Last updated: | 25-07-2014
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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| Plugin URI: | http://www.kidsinthehouse.com/software/wordpr... |
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| Active installs: | 10+ |
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This plugin will allow you to easily add any video on http://www.kidsinthehouse.com to posts, pages and widget areas on your WordPress site. After following the installation instructions above you are ready to embed videos. First find a video you would like to embed by visiting http://www.kidsinthehouse.com and browsing to the particular video you would like to embed on your WordPress site. Copy the URL of the video from the web browser's address bar, for example purposes here is a url to a specific video http://www.kidsinthehouse.com/all-parents/parenting/parental-stress-and-anger/how-to-stop-yelling-at-your-kids.
To Embed a Video on Posts and Pages using shortcodes shortcodes are simple snippets of text inside the visual editor
In the visual editor of a post or page, either type or copy and paste the following short code using the actual Kids in the House video URL from above.
[kith videourl="PUT URL HERE"]
Save the post or page and when you view it in a browser, you should see the embeded video. You can customize various options for the embeded video by adding more options to the shortcode. After going over each option with a basic description, we've included an example that you can cut and paste. Options you may specify in you snippet or shortcode include:
width is the width of the embed, usually in pixels, so you would put 640 for 640 pixels wide, this will also except a value of small or can be omitted if you do not wish to specify an exact size.
height is the height of the embed, see width description for more details.
autostart determines whether the video automatically begins playing on page load
morelink If the Show More Link checkbox is checked in the settings for this plugin, underneath each video a link back to Kidsinthehouse will be automatically inserted for visitors wishing to see more content from Kids in the House. This allows you to specify which page on KidsintheHouse.com this goes to. It could be the expert page or another video by the same expert, or the homepage, you can pick any kidsinthehouse.com URL. If left off, it defaults to the linking to http://www.kidsinthehouse.com
linktext is the text used for the morelink option mentioned above. If left off it defaults to For more videos on parenting visit KidsintheHouse.com
Example snippet (shortcode) you can use:
[kith videourl="PUT URL HERE" width="620" height="400" morelink="http://www.kidsinthehouse.com/teenager" linktext="For more videos on teenagers visit KidsintheHouse.com" autostart="TRUE"]
This is the method we recommended for most users, but if you want to embed a Kids in the House video in an area that is not a page or post, you may want to use our video widget.
** Using the Kids in the House Video Widget ** The Kids in the House video widget allows you to embed videos in any area that supports widgets like sidebars, footers, and headers
In the widget manager in the WordPress dashboard accessible via Appearance Widgets, there will be a new available widget title "Kids in the House Videos" listed under available widgets.
Drag this widget to the area you want to add the embed video to. Click on the title of the newly dragged widget "Kids in the House Videos". A configuration form should drop down with various options you can customize. The only one required is the video URL. First find a video you would like to embed by visiting http://www.kidsinthehouse.com and browsing to the particular video you would like to embed on your WordPress site. Copy the URL of the video from the web browser's address bar, for example purposes here is a url to a specific video - http://www.kidsinthehouse.com/all-parents/parenting/parental-stress-and-anger/how-to-stop-yelling-at-your-kids and put that in in the section that says This is the video URL you want to embed in the widget configuration form. The other options are the same as described in the shortcode section above and include width, height, autostart, morelink, and linktext.
After filling out the widget configuration form, hit save and view your site. The video should appear in the area the widget is placed in. To add more videos, under available Widgets drag another instance of Kids in the House Video to the widget area you want the video to appear. This is the same way you added the first one above. You can create as many Kids in the House videos widgets as you would like by dragging the Kids in the House Videos box from available widgets to the desired areas.