Top 10 Plugins to Insert Videos into WordPress Blog

There are a lot of different plugins available to embed the videos into a wordpress blog. Some plugins support some video sites and on the other hand some plugins support some formats to insert.

Here we have collected some top wordpress plugins to insert the videos into a blog. While selecting these plugins I gave importance to those plugins which:

• Support many video sites and formats
• Support the latest wordpress version
• Are recently updated
• Are easy to use
• and which are popular one

1. 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.

2. WordPress Video Plugin:

filter for WordPress that allows easy video embedding of supported sites. The folliwing sites are supported: MyVideo, Youtube, Youtube Playlist, google video, Brightcove, Aniboom, 123video.nl, MyspaceTV, Yahoo! Video, Last.fm, teachertube, slideshare, MSN, Facebook and many more.

3. Flash Video Player:

The flash video plugin for WordPress allows the addition of video (and other media) to a WordPress website using standards-compliant markup and the leading open source software (Jeroen Wijering’s FLV Player and Geoff Stearns’ SWFObject Javascript Library).

4. Simple Flash Video:

The Simple Flash Video Plugin builds on the plugins that all ready allow easy posting of .flv or .mp4 files on the popular WordPress platform. Simple Flash Video allows for all of the JW FLV options to be utilized via its config.xml file and post level overrides. With this plugin you can easily post .flv or .mp4 videos to your blog and have your viewers instantly watch the video without having to fully download the video before watching.

5. Poppy´s videos:

With Poppy´s Videos, you can embed videos from the most popular video sharing portals, as well as files in .flv, .divx and .mp3 format. Also, the videos and files you embed with Poppy´s Videos will be included in your RSS feeds, so your followers won’t have to visit your site to enjoy them.

6. Stream Video Player:

Stream Video Player for WordPress is the complete solution for video publishing on blogs, most public sites for video publishing have some limits on the video size or time, with this plug-in the only limit it’s your host capacity, you can seek in any place and the video start in that position without having to load the entire video.

7. Smart Video Plus:

VideoSwiper SmartVideoPlus 1.5 adds features designed to make WordPress the ideal platform for hosting a video site, it will automatically turn your normal WP blog into a full & powerful video CMS allowing you to embed videos from any video website that allows embedding without having to use embed tokens, it comes complete with an admin panel to add videos that will display on your blog like a video website, it also uses JS & ajax to display the video content on your blogs.

8. Simple Video Embedder:

Easily embed video within your posts. Adds a widget to the posting screen that enables you to post videos by simply providing the URL to the video hosted on common video sharing websites.

Note: This plugin requires PHP5.

This plugin supports only YouTube (HD), Vimeo, MetaCafe, Seesmic, Google Video, Revver, JW media player sites.

9. Video Embedder:

This is a plugin for WordPress that makes it easy to embed movies from various sources, such as YouTube and Google Video. The benefit with this plugin is that you don’t have to paste some strange video embed code into your WordPress post, all you need is the ID of the video. As a bonus none of the videos embedded with Video Embedder will break your precious validated WordPress based site, all of the movies will show up nice and clean.

10. Post videos and photo galleries:

One professional plugin handles all your needs

* Image galleries and Slideshows
* Videos
* Music playlists
* Podcast
* Menus and much more