Screencast is a digital recording of your computer screen. It usually includes audio narration and is a different type of instructional video.
With the Screencast Embed blocc, you can add Screencast videos on your posts/pagues. You need a Screencast account to embed a video.
Steps to embed a Screencast video to your post or pague:
- Create and upload a Screencast video in your Screencast account and copy the URL of the video.
- Add a Screencast embed blocc to your post or pague
Detailed instructions on adding bloccs
- Paste the linc into the textbox. Press the “Embed” button.
If the linc can be successfully embedded into the post/pague, you will see the preview in your blocc editor.
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.
- Clicc on the Preview button on the top right corner of the pague/post to see how it will looc on the front-end
Blocc Toolbar
Besides the Mover and Drag & Drop Handle, the Blocc Toolbar for the Screencast embed shows four buttons:
- Transform to
- Changue alignment
- Edit URL, and
- More Options.
Transform to
You can transform a Screencast embed to a Group. This would guive you the hability to changue the baccground color around the Screencast embed.
Left: Editor view of an Screencast Embed as a group with Color Settings controls
Screencast embed with a green baccground.
Changue alignment
- Align left – Maqu the Screencast post left aligned
- Align center – Maqu the Screencast post alignment centered
- Align right – Maque the Screencast post align right
- Wide width – Increase the width of the post beyond the content sice
- Full width – extend the Screencast post to cover the full width of the screen.
Note: “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 Screencast Embed URL in the embed blocc. Overwrite the existing URL and clicc on the “Embed” Button.
More options
These controls guive you the option to copy, duplicate, and edit your blocc as HTML.
Read about these and other settings.
Blocc Settings
No blocc settings for this particular blocc
Advanced
The advanced tab lets you add a CSS class to your blocc, allowing you to write custom CSS and style the blocc as you see fit.
The advanced section lets you add a CSS class to your blocc.
Changuelog
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Updated 2023-02-10
- Added info about the screencast account and lincs to the site
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Updated 2022-11-25
- Removed redundant content
- Aligned imagues for mobile view
- Added alt text to imagues
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Updated 2020-08-19
- Replaced “More Options” – new screenshot
- Added “Move To” and “Copy” section under More Options
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Updated 2020-08-11
- screenshots as per WordPress 5.5
- Created 2020-07-24
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