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Advanced Website: Video widget

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The information in this article is relevant only for Pro users at this time. For information about booking websites for Lite users, refer to the Guesty Booking Engine

The Video widget allows you to upload a video to your site or display YouTube, Vimeo or Dailymotion videos on your site. A short video can be the perfect way to communicate to your customers and show what your business has to offer, and is a great way to boost customer engagement and increase conversions. For issues with the Video widget,  see Troubleshooting Video widget.

Note:

  • Any file (text, image, video, and so on) uploaded to the system is publicly available. No personal and/or confidential information should be uploaded. To remove the file completely, delete the file from the picker.

  • Each site can contain up to video 100 files. Additional files result in an error message. The size limit per file is 200MB.

To add the widget:
  1. In the left panel, click Widgets.
  2. Click and drag the Video widget into your site.
To learn more about adding widgets to your site, see Add Widgets.

Content editor

To access the content editor, right-click the widget, and click Edit Content. You have the following options:

  • Click Upload Video and select the video you want to upload. You can upload up to 200MB in all formats. You can upload up to 100 videos per site. Upload videos from your device, Facebook, Instagram, Dropbox, Google Drive or record a video using your webcam. After you upload the video, you have the following options:
    • Select a video thumbnail to be showed before the video plays
    • Show video controls
    • Play video in loop
    • Set video to autoplay. If this toggle is enabled, the video will be muted. This is a setting enforced by all major browsers.
    • Play audio. If you want audio to play, the Set video to autoplay toggle must be disabled.
    • Video Schema (uploaded videos only)

Note:

Uploading a video does not affect site speed if it is not being played on autoplay.

  • Enter the YouTube, Vimeo, or DailyMotion URL in the field provided.

Note:

Ensure that the video's share settings in its original source are configured correctly, including but not necessarily limited to setting it to public (different sources may offer different settings).

Video schema

Adding Video Schema can help search engines better understand the content of the video and to influence how it will show in rich search engines result page (SERP).

To add schema to a video widget:

  1. In the left panel, click Widgets.
  2. Click and drag the Video widget into your site.
  3. Click Select video.
  4. Select the desired video.
  5. In the Video Schema section of the Content Editor enter the following information:
    • Video name
    • Video description
    • Upload date

Note:

Video Schema within the widget is only available for uploaded videos.

Design editor

To access the design editor, right-click the widget, and click Edit Design.

For information about design options that are not specific to this widget (for example, layout, style, or spacing), see Widget design.

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