If you want to extend the capability of your basic WordPress framework so that it can better display video content, the best way to do it is to use WordPress plugins. That is, if you don’t want to change your theme to a video theme for WordPress specially designed for video blogs. Right now, you can get either a free video plugin or one which is premium from various plugin providers. While free items perform well, premium ones however are in general, superior because oftentimes they offer more advanced features like a more organized and feature rich back-end system to administrate your media content. Also, typically premium plugins are well documented, comes with support and regular updates.

Either way, common to both free and premium plugins is the support for the most popular video formats used today. Some of the plugins makes it possible to easily embed video streams while others support self hosted videos. It is quite typical to see the use of jquery sliders with video content to enhance the user experience. Here in this article, you will find some of the best WordPress video plugins to help you embed cool video features into your website.

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Video Gallery WordPress Plugin /w YouTube, Vimeo

Responsive, localized, awesome, fully featured, fast. The most advanced stock video gallery in the world! Now as a WordPress plugin!

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Vimeo SEO user playlist for wordpress

Vimeo Playlist SEO with jQuery for WordPress is a useful video plugin that, allows you to turn an unordered list of Vimeo links into a video playlist. It is very easy to use and you can choose to make a video playlist with the following options: videos, likes, appears_in, all_videos, subscriptions, album, channel or group.

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MediaBlender – WordPress Gallery Plugin

MediaBlender is a highly customizable media showcase plugin that allows you to finally show all of your media – easily! It comes packaged with 3 gallery styles, so you’ll be able to make use of it in multiple areas of your site.

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HTML5 Video Player WordPress Plugin

This Video player supports full screen, having all the controllers usable in full screen mode, including playlist. It plays .MP4, .OGV and .WEBM video files. You can also can also choose from 5 skins for each player and many other features.

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Video Player WordPress Plugin – YouTube/FLV/H264

This wordpress plugin will help you administrate the entire video player using a very friendly interface. You’ll be able to customize the player look & feel, playlist and CSS file. The plugin comes in two versions: Right Side playlist and Bottom Playlist

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WordPress Videos Embedder PRO

WordPress Videos Embedder PRO lets you embed videos from the popular sources with only one click.

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YouTube Premium Videos Integration for WordPress

This Premium YouTube Plugin for WordPress enables you to integrate not only single YouTube videos into your blog posts and pages, but also full YouTube channels and featured YouTube videos (Most Popular videos, Most View videos etc) that you can filter by date (weekly, daily, all time etc).

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YouTube Pro

YouTube Pro is a great new plugin for WordPress 3.0! Upload, edit and delete your movies without leaving you blog! And that’s not all! You can change the appearance of your player.

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WordPress Media Gallery – Ken Burns Effect

WordPress Media Gallery is the ultimate gallery for your WordPress site. It supports any kind of content from simple images to advanced inline content to videos. Because of this, it can be used not only as a gallery, but also as a slider, banner rotator, video gallery and more! This is the only gallery you will ever need!

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Vimeo Video Player WordPress Plugin with Playlist

This wordpress plugin will help you administrate the entire video player using a very friendly interface. You’ll be able to customize the player look & feel, playlist and CSS file.

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VideoPress

The VideoPress plugin allows blog administrators to upload new videos to their WordPress.com video account and manage existing videos from the convenience of their self-hosted WordPress.org blog’s administrative interface. Authors can add any VideoPress video into a blog post through the use of a simple shortcode and customizations.

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MediaElement.js – HTML5 Video & Audio Player

Video and audio plugin for WordPress built on the MediaElement.js HTML5 media player library. Provides Flash or Silverlight fallback players for non-HTML5 browsers. Supports iPhone, iPad, and Andriod. Supports MP4, OGG, WebM, WMV, MP3, WAV, WMA files as well as captions with WebSRT files.

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Viper’s Video Quicktags

Tired of copying and pasting the embed HTML from sites like YouTube? Then this plugin is for you. Just simply click one of the new buttons that this plugin adds to the write screen (rich editor included) and then paste the URL that the video is located at into the prompt box — easy as that. You can fully configure how the videos are displayed (width, height, colors, alignment on the page) and much more. Your site will even stay (X)HTML valid unlike with the code provided by most video sites.

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The Wall – Media Gallery – WordPress Plugin

“The Wall” is the ultimate interactive media gallery for your site presentation. Now for WordPress!

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CCGallery – HTML5 Multimedia Gallery

CCGallery is a HTML5 multimedia gallery. It is very simple to use and can be configured easily through a XML file. It acts as a template which displays all your images, audio files and video files in a sleek and attractive interface. You get to browse the items in Coverflow mode or in a Thumbnail grid mode. You can easily switch between the two display modes and can even filter the items by displaying only images, or audio files, or video files. CCGallery has been designed in such a way that it is extremely easy to browse through a large number of items and also with enough eye candy!

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Youtube SEO playlist for WordPress

This plugin allows you to turn an unordered list of YouTube links into a video playlist. The php script makes the Youtube list on a fly and uses the latest Gdata Api v2. You can choose to make a video playlist with keywords, userchannel or a regular Youtube playlist. There are many options which can be set in the php script and in the jQuery function. Includes the new html5 youtube player option. This is the only Youtube script available with search engine optimalisation (SEO) Almost drag and drop.

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WordPress Media

WordPress Media 1.3.1 allows the addition of an HTML 5 audio and/or video player to your theme. It requires PHP 5 .1 or higher. The player is an instance of the popular and stable jPlayer by Happyworm and can be inserted into posts via a shortcode, sidebar areas via a widget, or anywhere in your theme via a template tag. Multiple instances of the player on one page is supported.

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