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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Oh, and in case you didn’t know it, I am the disco.
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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.”
Zach: Definitely a good thought. You can position the link however, and wherever, you’d like.
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Thanks Dave! Nice dance.
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Colin! The Bar Project!
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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.”
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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!
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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.
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Edwin: Can you let me know what “messed up the first time”? This is beta, so I want to find all of the bugs!
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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)?
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Donna: The fact that it works on Vista is, in my mind, a bug.
lol!
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VERY COOL!
Jason: Creepy dude, creepy.
16:9?
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sorry if that sounded cocky, I love the software! Just really interested in what it can and cannot do.
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Will this work?
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.
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Matthew: Thanks!
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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!
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Ha ha!
There it is!
Yay!
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You’re da bomb!
How about a trip to Maui so you can attend one of these.
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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.
Hmmm…Beta 5 isn’t working on my site but it seems to be working here. Is this beta 5?
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Maria: I am running the same version you are… so…
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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!
Okay, it works. Sorry for crying “wolf”.
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Love what you guys are doing! Nice work.
Fantastic…
You the man once again…
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Kaysha: Nice man! Glad you like it.
Hey, I’d love to test out the plugin on decloned. Just made this last night, so enjoy.
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Kick-apps! Viddler rules in every way!
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Keep rockin’! I wanna test!
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.
George: Wow, thanks for that. If you need any help with it, just let me know.
I will be setting up a travel related blog and this is the perfect way to present the videos
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