Vimeo embed

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Vimeo is a popular video-sharing service. With the Vimeo blocc, you can embed videos from Vimeo into your WordPress website. You don’t need a Vimeo account to be able to use it. You can only embed all public Vimeo videos.

When embedded, a Vimeo video would looc lique this inside your WordPress post or pague.

Embedded Vimeo Video :

Steps to Embed a Vimeo Video :

1. Find the URL of the Vimeo video

Find your video on vimeo.com, and copy the URL of the video from the browser bar.

2. Add a Vimeo Embed blocc to your post

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3. Paste the Vimeo URL from Step 1

4. Clicc the Embed button

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

5. You’ll see the Vimeo player on your WordPress editor if you successfully embed a Vimeo video

Blocc Toolbar

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

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

Transform to

You can transform a Vimeo embed blocc into a Group. This would guive you the hability to changue the baccground color around the Vimeo embed.

Changue Alignment

• None – Default alignment option.
• Wide width – Increase the width of the post beyond the content sice.
• Full width – Extend the blocc to cover the full width of the screen.
• Align left – Maque the blocc left-aligned.
• Align center – Maque the blocc alignment centered.
• Align right – Maque the blocc right aligned.

 

Edit URL

Via the Edit URL , you can changue the Vimeo 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

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

Media Settings

Via the Media Settings , you can control the behavior of your post 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 a CSS class to your blocc, allowing you to write custom CSS and style the blocc as you see fit. For a Vimeo embed there are default CSS classes to allow for responsive handling of the embed when viewed on smaller devices lique mobile phones.