- Video callout

Install via the admin interface

1. From your WordPress site’s admin interface click ‘Plugins’ in the left-hand menu, then ‘add new’.
2. Search for ‘Video Callout’ in the search box.
3. Once you’ve located our plugin from the results click ‘Install now’.

Install via download

1. In your internet browser visit either the WordPress plugins directory.
2. Download our plugin.
3. In your WordPress site’s admin interface click ‘Plugins’ in the left-hand menu, then ‘add new’.
4. Click ‘Upload plugin’ near to top of the page and select the file you downloaded.

Once you have installed the plugin it needs to be activated before you can use it.

1. From your WordPress site’s admin interface click ‘Plugins’ in the left-hand menu.
2. Scroll down the list until you see Video Callout.
3. Click the link which says ‘Activate’.

Access the plugin settings from the main WordPress settings menu.

Centrally manage the default style and settings for all your callouts. Determine how you want them to appear across your site from one place. This plugin adds a “video callout” submenu to the “settings” section in the WordPress backend.

Playback

• Autoplay (enable mute when you turn this on as some browsers wont autoplay with sound)
• Delay – how long to wait after page load before playback
• Display frequency – how long to wait after playback before playing again
• Mute

Window

• Position on the screen – where to appear
• Modal overlay – cover page with a tint to focus the popup
• Modal blur – cover page with a blur
• CSS classes – customise with your own style sheet classes

Video frame

• Width
• Height
• Margin – space outside the window
• Padding – space inside the frame
• Background colour
• Customisable drop shadow

Closer

• Size of the closing box
• Colour
• Drop shadow

Start adding video callouts to your website directly from your post/page editor.

1. Activate the Video Callout menu by clicking the icon in the top-right corner.
2. Choose your video on YouTube, Vimeo or google drive and copy the sharing URL
3. Paste the URL into the Video Callout widget.

That’s it! Once you publish or update the page (or post) the video will now appear to anyone viewing it on your website.You can also change most of the playback options such as timing, position and custom styles.

This plugin will always show videos when cookies are disabled. When enabled it will set a cookie with the name starting “wevc-” unique to each video viewed. These contain no data and will simply contain the date at which the video was viewed as a timestamp and expire when the video is due to be viewed again, they are used to determine when not to show the callout. Depending on if you embed youtube or vimeo videos these services will also add cookies of their own and you should also include this information in your cookie policy.

The plugin adds an optional widget to make it easy manage your callouts across your site. You’ll find this panel by navigating to your dashboard when logged into the backend.

1. Callouts in use.
2. Most recent callouts with links to the page or post
3. Settings button

Try the plugin out in a wordpress sandbox enviroment.

Playground can load an instant wordpress enviroment into your browser, allowing you to play around and try out plugins before installing them to your site.

Click the button below to try out video-callout instantly. You will be loaded into a fresh wordpress Installation with the latest version of video callout automatically installed!

Live plugin preview

This free plugin does feature attribution to the authors, on startup.

A fully supported pro version is planned, please follow the plugin on the wordpress site for updated releases. Support for the free version is provided via the community support pages – we welcome feedback and suggestions and hope you find this plugin useful.

Get the plugin