Video callout for Wordpress

A simple callout plugin

Simply add a video URL in the WordPress editor. You can use videos from YouTube and Vimeo. With the controls in the editor you can easily control the behaviour and timing of video callouts. And from the settings page it is straightforward to fully customise the appearance of videos to match your site’s theme. If you need to, you can even add custom CSS classes for even greater control over the styling.

This plugin will only load scripts when they are absolutely needed.  Video from external sources – when triggered – will add tracking, cookies and other scripts – therefore we only initialise those services when the video is due for display.

Installation

Full instructions about installing and managing plugins can be found on the WordPress support pages.

To install the Video Callout plugin use either one of these methods:

Install via the admin interface

1. From your WordPress site’s admin interface click ‘Plugins’ in the left-hand menu, then ‘add new’.
2. Search for ‘Video Callout’ in the search box.
3. Once you’ve located our plugin from the results click ‘Install now’.

Install via download

1. In your internet browser visit either the WordPress plugins directory.
2. Download our plugin.
3. In your WordPress site’s admin interface click ‘Plugins’ in the left-hand menu, then ‘add new’.
4. Click ‘Upload plugin’ near to top of the page and select the file you downloaded.

Activation

Once you have installed the plugin it needs to be activated before you can use it.

1. From your WordPress site’s admin interface click ‘Plugins’ in the left-hand menu.
2. Scroll down the list until you see Video Callout.
3. Click the link which says ‘Activate’.

Now the plugin is activated, you’re ready to get started!

Dashboard

The plugin adds an optional widget to make it easy manage your callouts across your site. You’ll find this panel by navigating to your dashboard when logged into the backend.

Settings

You can access the plugin settings from the main WordPress settings menu.

Centrally manage the default style and settings for all your callouts. Determine how you want them to appear across your site from one place. This plugin adds a “video callout” submenu to the “settings” section in the WordPress backend.

The settings page gives you precise control over your callouts. Allowing you to change a wide variety of settings:

Playback

• Autoplay (enable mute when you turn this on as some browsers wont autoplay with sound)
• Delay – how long to wait after page load before playback
• Display frequency – how long to wait after playback before playing again
• Mute

Window

• Position on the screen – where to appear
• Modal overlay – cover page with a tint to focus the popup
• CSS classes – customise with your own style sheet classes

Video frame

• Width
• Height
• Margin – space outside the window
• Padding – space inside the frame
• Background colour
• Customisable drop shadow

Closer

• Size of the closing box
• Colour
• Drop shadow

Editor controls

After you have downloaded, installed and activated the plugin you can start adding video callouts to your website directly from your post/page editor.

Activate the Video Callout menu by clicking the icon in the top-right corner.