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Brajesh Singh in 4 Comments

Today, we are releasing MediaPress 1.4.0 with the support for adding remote media. MediaPress – Your preferred BuddyPress Media and gallery solution has got the new wings now.

The new version allows now to add videos from YouTube/Facebook etc. to your BuddyPress Activity and BuddyPress User/Group galleries.  It also allows you to add media using a direct link (say http://example.com/hello.jpeg).

It has been a long demanding need to support adding videos from YouTube, Vimeo, etc. to MediaPress/BuddyPress. Since we have added support for Oembed, you can use the link from any Oembed supporting site to add videos/photos to your BuddyPress Site.

Some of the sites that support Oembed are

• YouTube
• Vimeo
• Facebook
• Flickr
• Hulu
• Imgur
• …..

For a complete list, Please check WordPress's list of sites here.

I will suggest taking a look at the MediaPress demo site for the experience.

Important links:-

• Download : https://wordpress.org/plugins/mediapress/
• Demo: http://demos.buddydev.com/mediapress/
• Addons: https://buddydev.com/plugins/category/mediapress/
• Docs: https://buddydev.com/mediapress/guides/

Screenshots:-

Here are a few screenshots.

Adding videos from BuddyPress activity

YouTube Videos in BuddyPress Activity

In the lightbox.

Gallery Page

Single Video Page

Adding an image using the direct link

The Remote media settings are available in the general settings panel of MediaPress(below the storage settings).

You can

• Completely turn off the remote media feature
• Enable/disable support for Oembed media.
• Enable/disable linking directly to file
• Configure if you want the file to be downloaded to your server when adding or not.

Hope that the new versions empower you and your sites to be more powerful. Thank you for using MediaPress.