Publicly testing Viddler’s video commenting plugin for Wordpress

Do you “follow” me on Twitter? If you do, then you definitely know that over the last few weeks I’ve been working on a video commenting plugin for Wordpress powered by Viddler’s API.

Update: This plugin is now available to everyone!

I’m happy to announce that as of ten minutes ago, we’ve distributed a private-beta to a few friends that use Wordpress. Having worked on this quite a bit I’m happy to get it into other’s hands, even if they come back with a ton of bugs for me to fix, at least it will allow me the feedback to make the plugin better.

If you use Wordpress and are interested in allowing your audience to comment with video, and you didn’t get an email from me today, contact me and I’ll be glad to get you a beta copy of the plugin. We’re eager to get people using it, but we just want to make sure we’ve dotted our Ts and crossed our… you get the idea.

Within a few days I’ll be writing more about this plugin on The Viddler Spotlight, the company blog, and by that time the plugin will be freely downloadable from our site for you to use. I’ll then provide some development notes, how we pulled it off, and other tidbits. For now, if you’re interested in working with flash-video online, look no further than Viddler’s API.

To test the plugin click “Record a video comment?” below the comment form. This will paste the appropriate code into the comment form to include your video. See, I told you it was simple.

Update: Thanks to all that have emailed me and commented so far. This last test has truly been very fruitful. I was able to squash a bunch of bugs last night, and I’m hoping to put the hammer to a few this morning. I’m expecting to release 1.0 beta 2 early this afternoon so please update your respective blogs when it comes out. Again, if you’d like to beta test this plugin, just send me an email.

Update 2: Looking for more testers. Version 1.0 beta 5 is now in the hands of the current group of beta testers and appears to be really stable. I’d like to expand the number of blogs this is installed on by about double the number of blogs we have currently. Anyone interested should comment below or send me an email. Thanks again everyone for testing this out.

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45 Comments

  1. Posted February 11, 2008 at 3:46 pm | Permalink

    Oh, and in case you didn’t know it, I am the disco.

  2. Posted February 11, 2008 at 3:58 pm | Permalink

    That player is really slick man. Well done. You are the disco.

    One thing though about your specific implementation. You put the “Record a video comment?” link *below* your comment text box past where the submit button is. I didn’t notice it at first. Maybe add some sort of bar attached to the top of the comment box?

    Here’s a quick mock-up.

    Hm. The window for making a comment wouldn’t let me login! “There was an error logging you in, unrelated to your login information. Sorry. Try again.”

  3. Posted February 11, 2008 at 4:00 pm | Permalink

    Zach: Definitely a good thought. You can position the link however, and wherever, you’d like.

  4. Posted February 11, 2008 at 4:05 pm | Permalink
  5. Posted February 11, 2008 at 4:16 pm | Permalink

    Thanks Dave! Nice dance.

  6. Posted February 11, 2008 at 4:26 pm | Permalink

    Colin! The Bar Project! :)

  7. Posted February 11, 2008 at 4:33 pm | Permalink
  8. Posted February 11, 2008 at 5:39 pm | Permalink

    Tried logging in to leave a video and got this “there was an error logging you in, unrelated to your login information. Sorry. Try again.”

  9. Posted February 11, 2008 at 5:46 pm | Permalink
  10. Posted February 11, 2008 at 6:07 pm | Permalink

    Clintus: Thank you for reporting the error. I’m hoping to have that bug squashed by the next version. Thanks for giving it a spin and for putting it on your site!

  11. Posted February 11, 2008 at 7:19 pm | Permalink
  12. Posted February 11, 2008 at 7:28 pm | Permalink

    Drew: Thanks! I’m looking forward to giving it to you. We should throw it up on The Best Damn Tech Show, Period’s web site.

  13. Posted February 11, 2008 at 11:43 pm | Permalink
  14. Posted February 12, 2008 at 12:07 am | Permalink

    Edwin: Can you let me know what “messed up the first time”? This is beta, so I want to find all of the bugs!

  15. Posted February 12, 2008 at 7:22 am | Permalink
  16. Posted February 12, 2008 at 8:35 am | Permalink

    Chris J. Davis: Thanks for taking the time, it is ok that it “took you so long”. Are you saying that you want to have the comments you make on weblogs be “private” (aka: not show up on Viddler)?

  17. Donna
    Posted February 12, 2008 at 9:02 am | Permalink
  18. Posted February 12, 2008 at 9:23 am | Permalink

    Donna: The fact that it works on Vista is, in my mind, a bug. ;)

  19. Donna
    Posted February 12, 2008 at 9:26 am | Permalink
  20. Posted February 12, 2008 at 9:55 am | Permalink
  21. Posted February 12, 2008 at 12:21 pm | Permalink

    Jason: Creepy dude, creepy.

  22. Posted February 12, 2008 at 1:40 pm | Permalink
  23. Posted February 12, 2008 at 1:43 pm | Permalink

    sorry if that sounded cocky, I love the software! Just really interested in what it can and cannot do.

  24. Posted February 12, 2008 at 2:14 pm | Permalink

    Oops. The embed code that was automatically placed in here went away when I refreshed the page by mistake.

    Will this work?

  25. Posted February 12, 2008 at 2:19 pm | Permalink

    detorn: Great question. I’ll ask the devs, and see what we can do. Oh, and you didn’t sound cocky at all. ;)

    steve: You could just go back in, click CHOOSE, and select the video comment there, should that happen again.

  26. Posted February 12, 2008 at 2:21 pm | Permalink
  27. Posted February 12, 2008 at 2:24 pm | Permalink

    Matthew: Thanks!

  28. Posted February 12, 2008 at 3:08 pm | Permalink
  29. Posted February 12, 2008 at 4:12 pm | Permalink

    Maria: Absolutely! The next version of the beta is nearly ready to be released. Expect an email from me sometime soon. Thanks for leaving a comment!

  30. Posted February 12, 2008 at 5:00 pm | Permalink

    Ha ha!

    There it is!

    Yay!

  31. Posted February 13, 2008 at 3:19 am | Permalink

    You’re da bomb!

  32. Posted February 13, 2008 at 3:24 am | Permalink

    How about a trip to Maui so you can attend one of these.

  33. Posted February 13, 2008 at 8:41 am | Permalink

    Edwin: I would love both a raise and a trip to Maui! Haha. Thanks so much for sticking with Viddler from the very beginning. Hope to catch up with you sometime soon.

  34. Posted February 13, 2008 at 4:34 pm | Permalink

    Hmmm…Beta 5 isn’t working on my site but it seems to be working here. Is this beta 5?

  35. Posted February 13, 2008 at 4:48 pm | Permalink

    Maria: I am running the same version you are… so…

  36. Posted February 13, 2008 at 4:57 pm | Permalink

    I’ll bring it back to beta 5 now so Jason can test it. Can’t think of any other Flash thing on the site. Sorry I’m having problems!

  37. Posted February 13, 2008 at 5:12 pm | Permalink

    Okay, it works. Sorry for crying “wolf”.

  38. Posted February 13, 2008 at 6:01 pm | Permalink

    Love what you guys are doing! Nice work.

  39. Posted February 13, 2008 at 8:38 pm | Permalink

    Fantastic…
    You the man once again…

  40. Posted February 13, 2008 at 9:05 pm | Permalink

    Kaysha: Nice man! Glad you like it.

  41. Posted February 16, 2008 at 10:56 am | Permalink

    Hey, I’d love to test out the plugin on decloned. Just made this last night, so enjoy.

  42. Posted February 25, 2008 at 3:43 am | Permalink

    Kick-apps! Viddler rules in every way!

    Keep rockin’! I wanna test!

  43. Posted February 26, 2008 at 3:48 pm | Permalink

    Fuck N A – this is dope Colin/Viddler Crew.

    My guess is this is going to get you guys a ton of new users – looks to be a really good implementation as well.

    I will definitely use it on my blog and a couple that I am building.

    Good stuff.

  44. Posted February 26, 2008 at 4:02 pm | Permalink

    George: Wow, thanks for that. If you need any help with it, just let me know.

  45. Posted September 2, 2008 at 4:25 pm | Permalink

    I will be setting up a travel related blog and this is the perfect way to present the videos

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