I’m looking to use a video instead of an image in a full background parallax section on my site (http://www.danielpenner.ca/)
I have tried using the background video plugin from Video Background – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org but I am not able to use the provided shortcode in the widget.
Any help you can give is much appreciated!
Hi @danmanpen,
I hope you are well today and thank you for your question.
You can try achieving this by using the solution posted in the following topic.
https://colorlibsupport.com/t/video-front-page/
Best Regards,
Movin
I believe that solution will allow me to embed an iframe that will display a Youtube video in the parallax section.
Is there a solution so that the video can be hosted and played directly from my site and not streamed via Youtube?
As I mentioned, I have installed the background video plugin which gives me a shortcode, but I haven’t found a way to add a shortcode to my homepage.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Is there a solution so that the video can be hosted and played directly from my site and not streamed via Youtube?
The information on the following pages will help you.
https://www.wp101.com/10-reasons-why-you-should-never-host-your-own-videos/
As I mentioned, I have installed the background video plugin which gives me a shortcode, but I haven’t found a way to add a shortcode to my homepage.
You can achieve this by using custom plugin solution shared in the following topic and then adding the shortcode in the Content field option of [Shapely] Parralax Section For FrontPage widget.