We love WordPress.com as it gives us the chance to create great looking websites in minutes. However posting Rightster hosted videos to a WordPress profile follows a slightly different path to our standard Embeds. Let’s run through the steps on how to do this:

Step 1: The Choice

First find the video you'd love to share with your followers and click the Embed button. This will bring up our ‘Embed Code' panel as seen below:

Step 2: The Video ID

Rather than taking the full embed code this time you need to take the video ID from the bottom left of the panel. Click ‘Copy ID’ to save this to your clipboard.

Step 3: The Post

Now head over to your WordPress profile and click the ‘New Post’ button, bringing up the following options:

Here you’ll need to select ‘Text’. We know you see the Video tab here and think 'I'm trying to post a video though?'. Fair point. This becomes clearer in the next step though.

Step 4: The Code

This is where things get a little interesting for you. As WordPress.com supports only a handful of official video providers you have to use a Gigya code to post Rightster videos. This is all above board too, Gigya are a company who work with Social Media sites to allow users to add content through a number of plugins.

The code looks like this:

[gigya src="http://vds.rightster.com/v/01z0vdybx2qv68" width="640" height="389" allowFullScreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"]

The important part for you here is the section we’ve added in red. This is the Video ID code that you copied in Step 2, and is the part of the code that tells WordPress which video you want to display and what account you used on Rightster.

You’ll need to replace this red video ID with the Rightster Video ID of your choice each time you post a new video.

Step 5: The Settings

Gigya codes allow you to change two main settings:

Player Size: You’ll see the width and height references in the code below – changing the numbers here will change the size, in pixels, of the player that you’re embedding. The width should always be a higher number than the height to ensure that the video shape is correct, and for the best display you should aim to keep this in a 16:9 ratio.

Allow Full Screen: This allows your viewers to expand the video to fill their screen. You can turn this off by replace ‘true’ with ‘false’.

[gigya src="http://vds.rightster.com/v/01z0vdybx2qv68" width="640" height="389" allowFullScreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"]

Step 6: The Finishing Touches

You’re now ready to create your post, including the gigya code, and click the ‘Publish Post’ button. Good job!