Video Comments: Wave of the Future or Already Dismissed and I Didn’t Get the Memo?
Posted on February 29, 2008
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I’m just wondering why I’ve never seen anyone allow, let alone drop, video comments on blogs? It’s really easy to hack wordpress to allow video comments and it seems like every knob and his dog has a video camera and too much to say. Perhaps I’m reading the wrong blogs. Perhaps that’s a good thing.
How to Enable Video Comments for your Wordpress Blog
Apparently there’s a wordpress plugin that allows you to embed video content in your comments but I was looking for the code hack. I’ll edit this section if and when I find the page that sorted me out when I added video commenting back in october
GOOGLE You’re Not Helping
Grr I’m having trouble finding what I need so I refine my query to allintitle:”video comments” and google and gives me the “sorry there’s a chance you might be a spammer” page. That’s completely irrelevant! I just want to find a blog post whose author went to enough effort to write something about video comments that they’d put it in their title tag like I have.
***EDIT: God damn what an ordeal. I had a LOT of trouble finding the original post but here is the way to hack wordress to embed images and video in comments
You need to edit your wp-includes/kses.php file as outlined below:
WARNING: Make a backup of your kses.php file first!
To allow images add these lines after
// 'ul' => array(),but before );‘img’ => array (’alt’ => array (), ‘align’ => array (), ‘border’ => array (), ‘height’ => array (), ‘hspace’ => array (), ‘longdesc’ => array (), ‘vspace’ => array (), ’src’ => array ()),
This will allow image tags to be embedded in comments
To allow Youtube Videos add these lines
‘embed’ => array (’src’ => array (), ‘type’ => array (), ‘wmode’ => array (), ‘height’ => array (), ‘width’ => array ()),
‘object’ => array (’src’ => array (), ‘type’ => array (), ‘wmode’ => array (), ‘height’ => array (), ‘width’ => array ()),
‘param’ => array (’name’ => array (), ‘value’ => array (), ‘wmode’ => array (), ‘height’ => array (), ‘width’ => array ()),
This approach can be modified to allow videos from any site as long as you add the right Tags and Attributes
Thank you, Ayush Saran.
Why Would You Not Allow Video Comments?
Because marketers will whore your blogs out like they do with comment spam but much worse and more disruptively. Page load could suffer as well. Some videos allow you to click through to a landing page where you can buy stuff. Not to mention the potential for full frontals and deep you know what getting all up in your readers’ face. Then again, who doesn’t moderate their comments for spammy comments?
The Future of Video Commenting
I can kind of picture a bunch of experts having a back and forth in real time through video comments, like on a conference call or webinar but archived for posterity.
It’s friday night and I have to be places so I’ll leave it at that. Why or why wouldn’t you allow video comments on your blog?
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And I was considering taking the old archives of my blog down,
good to know they’re useful to someone.
the project that I was working on at the time decided to allow only registered and logged in users to embed videos in comments,to cut down on spam