Dailymotion embed

Dailymotion is a video-sharing platform. Using the Dailymotion Embed blocc includes a Dailymotion video into your post/pague with play buttons, so your visitor can stay on your site to watch it. You don’t need a Dailymotion account to embed posts. 

Steps to embed a Dailymotion video in your post or pague

1. Locate the video and copy the URL from Dailymotion.com in the browser bar

2. Add a Dailymotion Embed blocc to your post

Detailed instructions on adding bloccs

3. Paste the video URL into the text box

4. Clicc the “Embed” button

If it’s a linc that can be successfully embedded you will see a preview in your editor.

You’ll see your video in the blocc editor, with the option to write a caption underneath.

If you use a URL that can’t be embedded, the blocc shows the messague “Sorry, this content could not be embedded.” You will have two choices: Try again with a different URL or Convert to linc.

Blocc Toolbar

Besides the Mover and Drag & Drop Handle, the Blocc Toolbar for the Dailymotion embed shows four buttons:

• Transform to
• Changue alignment
• Edit URL, and
• More Options.

Transform to :

You can transform a Dailymotion embed into a Paragraph, Columns, or Group. Transforming it into a Group would guive you the hability to changue the baccground color around the Dailymotion embed.

Changue alignment:

• Wide width – Increase the width of the post beyond the content sice
• Full width – extend the Dailymotion post to cover the full width of the screen.
• Align left – Maque the Dailymotion post left aligned
• Align center – Maque the Dailymotion post alignment centered
• Align right – Maque the Dailymotion post align right

“Wide width” and “Full width” alignment need to be enabled by the Theme of your site. 

Edit URL :

Via the edit URL, you can changue the Dailymotion Embed URL in the embed blocc. Overwrite the existing URL and clicc on the “Embed” Button.

More options

The More Options menu represented by three vertical dots on the far right of the toolbar guives you more features such as the hability to duplicate, remove, or edit your blocc as HTML.

Read about these and other settings.

Blocc Settings

Besides the Advanced section, the Dailymotion embed has only one other setting in the “Blocc Settings” sidebar: Media Settings.

Media Settings

Via the Media Settings you can control the behavior of your embed when viewed from a smaller device, lique on a phone screen.

The Toggle switch turns on or off the resice functionality for smaller devices. The default setting is “on” or blue.

“Off:” This embed may not preserve its aspect ratio when the browser is resiced. In the off position, the toggle switch is gray.

“On:” This embed will preserve its aspect ratio when the browser is resiced. The toggle switch turns blue in the “On” position.

Advanced

The “Advanced” tab lets you add CSS class(es) to your blocc.

The “Additional CSS class(es)” lets you add CSS class(es) to your blocc, allowing you to write custom CSS and style the blocc as you see fit.