Testing our WordPress video commenting plugin
In case you missed our secret video, we’re working on a WordPress plugin that makes it quick and easy to record, or choose video comments to blog posts.
We’ve got a little ways to go with testing, but we thought now would be a pretty good time to ask anyone that would like to help us test it - to do so below. The instructions are pretty simple. You can log into your Viddler account using your normal Viddler username and password and either record a video with your webcam, or choose an existing video on your Viddler account as your video response to this post.
Here is a small list of some issues you may encounter, that we’re working on fixing prior to the release of this plugin.
- Logging into your Viddler account, while already logged in here on the blog, seems a little counter-intuitive doesn’t it? We’re going to fix that, but for now you will have to log in.
- Privacy, and your personal account information, is important to us. Forcing you to log in using your username and password, from any other website besides Viddler.com, would not be the more private way to handle user authentication. So, we’ll be using OAuth to make it so that anyone using this plugin on their site will not have access to your username and password. We will have this done before we release this plugin.
- If you currently have your default sharing options set to make each new video private, you may notice that recording a video with your webcam will also set that video as private. Don’t panic! Just go to that video and set it as public and your comment will appear normally. The very next version of our API will resolve this issue.
- You can only choose from your ten most recent videos on Viddler to use as a video comment. We’d like to extend the plugin to allow you to choose any of your videos.
- Styling. We need to make it look much nicer or our own blog.
All of these things aside, we think this plugin is really fun to play around with. So go ahead and give a spin below the comment form.
Colin Devroe says
January 28, 2008 - 10:18 pmI figured I’d be the first to try it out… So, here is my video comment.
Click to play this video.
Robert Sandie says
January 28, 2008 - 10:27 pmClick to play this video.
bort911 says
January 28, 2008 - 10:28 pmClick to play this video.
Robert Sandie says
January 28, 2008 - 10:31 pmNote: If you have your settings make videos private by default, you will need to make your videos public.
Colin, anyway to get around this with API?
vegasmac says
January 28, 2008 - 10:31 pmThat’s awesome! As you can see even my chair got a little bit excited… good work!
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Colin Devroe says
January 28, 2008 - 10:37 pmvegasmac: Haha! Nice. Now I’m dizzy.
contagious says
January 28, 2008 - 10:44 pmClick to play this video.
jwaldrip says
January 28, 2008 - 10:52 pmClick to play this video.
digitalfather says
January 29, 2008 - 12:20 amSpectacular!
Click to play this video.
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edwinv says
January 29, 2008 - 6:54 amClick to play this video.
zachhale says
January 29, 2008 - 6:55 pmClick to play this video.
Hrm. It stopped recording video half-way through.
zachhale says
January 29, 2008 - 6:59 pmAfter using it and submitting I noticed that the video didn’t actually have any issues so that’s good.
But! It created a normal video in my viddler account that has full public permissions. I went and watched it an it makes no sense without the context of the blog entry. Maybe when using viddler through this it would save the videos as private? At least there should be an option to do so.
chidiet says
January 31, 2008 - 5:07 pmI can’t get it to work on my blog. I uploaded it and activated it, but it’s not showing up under my comments box.
Any ideas?
My blog is here:
http://www.chidiet.com/blog
Thanks
Chris
chidiet says
January 31, 2008 - 5:11 pmnenvermind i came across the wrong plugin… the viddler rss feed.
princessleah7x says
February 1, 2008 - 1:39 amtrés giddy!
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F-Commeinhes says
February 2, 2008 - 4:50 pmi don(t undestand how it’s works with wp
jpozadzides says
February 6, 2008 - 5:27 amIt looks like a pretty cool plugin. Let me know when it’s ready and I’ll give it a try on http://OneMansBlog.com.
The only problem I see is that it’ll make reviewing comments a little trickier because you have to actually watch the video responses as opposed to my normal process of reading them in e-mail, on my cell phone, etc.
Click to play this video.
toastedrav says
February 6, 2008 - 5:41 pmI would love love love to see this on Movable Type
mattbrett says
February 10, 2008 - 11:05 pmOh, this is great! I’d love to take it for a spin on my blog too. Anxiously awaiting the public release.
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willij says
February 13, 2008 - 7:49 amThis is great. I only wish that the poeple over at Wordpress.com would let us have it.
srcasm says
February 14, 2008 - 4:04 amColin, so far the plugin looks great. I’ve recorded a speech for a class and this plugin would help greatly to test out on my blog. The video I recorded for class is at http://srcasm.com/2008/02/13/speech-1-what-is-net-neutrality/ but let me know if testing this plugin would be possible.
mndoci says
February 15, 2008 - 5:58 pmI tried it on the blog, but while the video does show up on my Viddler account, isn’t showing up on the blog. Anything I should be checming?
Thanks
bigdaveyt says
February 16, 2008 - 7:39 amThis is pretty ridiculous! I love it, it’s marketable, your probably going to be millionaires shortly. Nice work.
mndoci says
February 16, 2008 - 10:53 pmFixed and it rocks!!!
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February 19, 2008 - 3:00 am[…] I am experimenting with the Viddler video comment plugin. There is a link below the comment box that allows you to record a video response using your webcam (or upload a pre-recorded video from Viddler). Those of you with a Mac have no excuse not to leave one. There is an example over here […]
robinb says
February 22, 2008 - 3:41 amClick to play this video.
johnspencer says
February 25, 2008 - 11:05 amHI heard you on Net AT Nite with Leo and was wondering if i could try your plugin for my wordpress blog cheers John
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Wine says
March 1, 2008 - 6:05 pmGreat job on the site… I found out about it on net@nite
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