[Craig Allan Teich | FormulaWPParticipant]

I’ve been searching through the Forum and the Knowledge Base trying to get a few things clarified for embedding video and now I’m confused, so I’m hoping for some clarification on several questions:

1. If using Cornerstone, do the Video Embed shortcodes still play a role, or are they rendered mute by Cornerstone elements?

2. Within Cornerstone elements, can you please give me an explanation of the difference between the Embedded Video and Video Player elements.

3. Lastly, if I wanted to use a button to launch a video in a similar fashion as on the LeadPages Home Page, how can I do that (what is the code)?

Thanks so much!

[FriechModerator]

Hi There,

Thanks for writing in! 1) Embedded Video elements will just serves as a place-holder/container, the video itself will be inside <iFrame> tag which Embedded Video should be. And no, it does not have control to mute an embedded video.

2) You would use Embedded Video elements if the video is coming from an external source (e.g. Youtube, Vimeo, Vid.me, etc...). For this to work you need to copy the embed code from the source and paste it on the Embedded Video element.

Video Player element is commonly use for videos that you directly uploaded to your site (e.g. mp4, webm), external source is also possible. What you need here is the direct video URL (not the embed code).

3) What you need is the Video Lock extension.

Hope it helps, Cheers!

[Craig Allan Teich | FormulaWPParticipant]

I’ve investigated the Video Lock Extension. So far I see no way to get it to accomplish what I wanted which is simply to have a button in the section just below the Navbar that when clicked launches a video in an iframe.

Also, in playing with the Video Lock, I can’t seem to get the Close Button to be displayed. In searching the Forum it looks that many other have had this same issue, but I didn’t find any solutions that worked for me.

[RadModerator]

Hi Craig,

Yes, unfortunately, video lock is not setup for that purpose. What you need it just a simple lightbox that supports video embedding and a lightbox’s button. And you can’t do that with video lock extension.

Have you tried 3rd party plugin that supports video lightbox?

Thanks.

[Craig Allan Teich | FormulaWPParticipant]

You didn’t answer my question about the Close Button not displaying within the Video Lock Extension. Can you please tell me why the close button isn’t working? Many others seem to be having this same problem.

[JadeModerator]

Hi Craig,

I would love to investigate further on your current setup. Would you mind providing us with login credentials so we can take a closer look? To do this, you can make a post with the following info:

– Link to your site
– WordPress Admin username / password
Don’t forget to select Set as private reply. This ensures your information is only visible to our staff.

[Craig Allan Teich | FormulaWPParticipant]

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[Rue NelModerator]

Hello There,

The video lock close button is displaying. It is not quite visible because of its color. You can change the color of the close button by adding the following css code in the customizer, Appearance > Customize > Custom > CSS

a.x-video-lock-close {
    color: #fff;
}

Please let us know if this works out for you.

[Craig Allan Teich | FormulaWPParticipant]

This worked, but honestly I still couldn’t find the button when it was white. Not until I changed it to red was I able to spot the button in the top left corner of the page. Maybe that location is good marketing because it’s so hard to find, but close buttons are usually found top right or bottom right as a UI convention.

Thanks for the help!

[RadModerator]

You’re welcome!

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