WordPress is the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on hundreds of thousands of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day.

There is an official Brightcove Plugin for Wordpress. With this plugin you will be able to seamlessly add Brightcove video and players to your Wordpress site or blog. By clicking on the upload media button in Wordpress you will be able to add videos and playlists with ease.

Users without an API Read Token will be able to easily enter in videos and playlists by ID and the insert the shortcode into their post with the click of a button.

Users with an API Read Token will be able to easily search for videos by short description, long description, name, tags and custom fields. In addition all of your playlists and videos will be easily visible to you display the thumbnail, title and other information about the video, Then using a simple user interface click on the video you want and insert it into your post or page.

Default players for videos and playlists can be set throughout the site to create a consistent look as well as default heights and widths. All of these defaults can be over ridden at the time of video insertion to allow for customization of a video or player.

In addition this plugin features a live preview of the video or playlist and player so you will know that you have the right video before you enter it into your site.

You can install the Brightcove plugin from the WordPress plugin library.

The Plugin is also available on opensource.brightcove.com. Publishers should feel free to tweak the plugin and customize according to their organizations needs.

WordPress users are welcomed to learn more about Brightcove.