Add Video to Sidebar in Wordpress Options

[HaiNH1993]

Hi all,

I'm a Wordpress user. I created my blog using free service of Wordpress. In general speaking, my blog works well and i can customize its basic feature.
Today, when i go to another blogs using Wordpress like mine, i see they have videos on the sidebar like this (see my attached picture).



I wonder to know how did they do this? Any widget?

P/s: I'm using free service of Wordpress.com

Thanks in advance for helping me.

[Frederiek]

See http://wordpress.org/plugins/video-sidebar-widgets/ .

[jimlongo]

The free wordpress.com sites are not exactly the same as wordpress.org self-hosted sites.

You can't just install plugins on the free hosted wordpress.com sites.

[Frederiek]

Gee, I didn't even know (or realise) there is a difference.

[jimlongo]

Yes Wordpress.com is like Blogspot or Blogger or any other number of services that host your site and give you a limited template. It of course uses the Wordpress core to do that.

Wordpress.org is the open source software maintainer. Amongst other things, this site offers documentation, training and support for self-hosted installations of Wordpress software.

[Frederiek]

Ah, ok. Thanks, Jim.

If ever I took a look at Wordpress, I always automatically got on wordpress.org. I didn't even know there was a .com too. In my business, I have no need for it, I code from scratch in BBEdit.

[jimlongo]

Well I've never used wordpress.com.

But wordpress . . . I used to do everything by hand as well, but lately doing a lot of custom wordpress. It's just a matter of time and function. For a huge site with lots of customization it can be done in a fraction of the time, and especially if the client wants to have CMS options for changes after the site is done.

Anyway all that hand coding is still useful in that there is a lot of CSS , PHP and javascript coding necessary in a custom wordpress installation.