Jetpack VideoPress: Customizing your videos

Find tips and tricks about customizing your Jetpack VideoPress.

Modify a Video’s Settings

You can modify a video’s thumbnail, title, caption, description, sharing settings, and rating after the video upload and conversion completes.

To modify these settings:

1. Go to WordPress.com.
2. In the top left corner, click Switch Site and select the Jetpack-connected site you’re working on.
3. Go to Media.
4. Click on the video(s) that you want to modify. A pink box will appear around the video thumbnail and it will have a number on the thumbnail. If you want to modify multiple videos, each one will be assigned a number.

5. Click Edit. A new screen will open.

6. On that screen, you can see a number of settings for your video:

Title, Caption, and Description

These fields allow you to add a title, caption, and description for your video. These fields are helpful for SEO and accessibility.

Share

This setting allows you to enable and disable the sharing menu on the VideoPress player for your videos. If you turn off sharing for your video, you can still use the video block or the shortcode block to add the video to your site.

Turning off sharing settings doesn’t mean that site users cannot download or share your videos. It just turns off the sharing menu on Jetpack VideoPress’ native video player.

Rating

You can change the content rating of your video.

Video content uploaded to Jetpack VideoPress must comply with WordPress.com’s User Guidelines.

Thumbnail

You also have the option to change the thumbnail of your video. You can do this by clicking on the Edit Thumbnail button.

You will then be able to scrub through the video and find the image from the video you would like to use as the video thumbnail or upload an image of your own.

See our article about Changing a Video’s Thumbnail for detailed instructions.

Adding Subtitles, Captions, or Chapters within a Video

You can add subtitles, captions, or chapters within a video that will play along with it, by using a .vtt file. You can first start by adding the video to a post or page using the Video Block, and then clicking on the icon illustrated below:

You can then press Select Track to be able to select a previously uploaded file or proceed to upload one. Label and Source Language fields will automatically be populated if nothing is inserted.

VideoPress seekbar customization

VideoPress seekbar automatically changes color for a better video-watching experience.

The color adapt is activated and deactivated by setting the useAverageColor to true or false.