Plugins can now include videos in their readme.txt files

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The plugins directory now supports videos in readme.txt files. YouTube, Vimeo, and WordPress.comWordPress.com An online implementation of WordPress code that lets you immediately access a new WordPress environment to publish your content. WordPress.com is a private company owned by Automattic that hosts the largest multisite in the world. This is arguably the best place to start blogging if you have never touched WordPress before. https://wordpress.com/ VideoPress videos are supported.

Videos are included using one of two formats.

ShortcodeShortcode A shortcode is a placeholder used within a WordPress post, page, or widget to insert a form or function generated by a plugin in a specific location on your site.: YouTube, Vimeo, WordPress.com VideoPress

Include a normal looking shortcode anywhere in the readme.txt file.

For YouTube and Vimeo, the shortcode has one unnamed parameter: the video’s URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EiKx_WSesk]
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/173714]

For WordPress.com VideoPress videos, the shortcode has one unnamed parameter: the video’s ID. The shortcode can be copied from the video’s embed menu.

[wpvideo OO4thna8]

To prevent shortcodes from being parsed, enclose the shortcode in backticks.

`[wpvideo OO4thna8]`

Autolink: YouTube, Vimeo

Include a YouTube or Vimeo URL by itself on its own line in the readme.txt file.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EiKx_WSesk
http://vimeo.com/173714

Example

https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/mdawaffe-test/trunk/readme.txt
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mdawaffe-test/

The Validator shows the videos too.

NB: Directly including object/embed HTMLHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers. into the readme.txt file is not supported; the goal of the readme.txt file is to be human readable.

PS: Videos are not currently supported as replacements for screenshot images in the screenshots section. It’s silly that the Plugins Directory doesn’t yet support that 🙂 It’s on the todo.

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Dre Armeda 9:27 am on February 20, 2010

Very nice add-on to help make decisions about what plugins to use!

What controls will be set around advertisements and spam messages included in the videos?

The theme directory has a pretty good review process to ensure no spam is included, but with video it will be more challenging. If the video is 10 minutes long, how will that be reviewed?
- Matt 11:58 pm on February 20, 2010
  
  I’m most worried about Youtube, seeing a lot more spammy stuff on there with the ability to put links and popups in videos. If the feature is abused, we’ll just turn it off.
  - Ryan 10:59 pm on February 21, 2010
    
    You could limit it to VideoPress videos perhaps. It would make some sense to have them all running on the same infrastructure and be a good advertisement for the service.
  - Dre 4:49 am on February 24, 2010
    
    It would be nice to not have to turn it off but almost seems inevitable at some point if we don’t closely follow and implement strong controls. It will be difficult to go through every video and Matt I have been seeing a ton of spammy stuff on Youtube as well.
    
    Can we limit the length of the videos, and have some written guidance around what can be included? At the end of the day, a consistent governance plan will enable effective tools like this to proceed by use of monitored controls. VideoPress may also be an interesting approach as Ryan mentioned.
Banago 10:23 am on February 20, 2010

That will add a lot to plugins – settings customization is one of the things many pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party users need and video is best to show the how-to.
alphawolf 3:36 pm on February 20, 2010

That’s very neat! Thanks for that!
Peter Westwood 9:52 pm on February 21, 2010

Wow! Mike you rock!
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Michael Fields 8:11 pm on February 28, 2010

Just tried it out… This is Awesome! Thanks!
r-a-y 6:23 pm on June 21, 2010

What about inline images using the following MarkDown syntax?

![Alt text](/path/to/img.jpg)
- Soleil 4:41 am on October 28, 2010
  
  Seriously! Why is this not supported? How can you support embedded Youtube videos, and not support simple inline images?
  - Matt 9:20 am on October 31, 2010
    
    Videos we serve at a fixed size, which is nice, versus images which can be any size.
  - r-a-y 7:20 pm on October 31, 2010
    
    Why not fix the size then to the width of the tab area?