WordPress Youtube And How To Make Money From It

Youtube and WordPress are two famous names from different worlds. YouTube has its own hardcore fans that can give a famous YouTuber millions of subscribers. Imagine that. On the other hand, WordPress as the world well-known CMS has given birth to millions of Blogger (well, this part is a bit awkward since Blogger actually is on a different team). Anyway, can you imagine if you can combine them both and have the best of both worlds? A WordPress YouTube!

Stop imagining, let’s make one!

If you’re not familiar with this topic, why don’t you start by reading: Maximize The Use of WordPress Widgets and WordPress Themes

 

 

 

If you ever visit my Movies Site, then you might notice that none of the videos are actually hosted on my site. Why? Because it will make my site weightless. A video in current video format with current standard plausible quality is around 1 to 6 Gigabytes. My current plan on Namecheap is 20 Gigabytes. Imagine how many sacrifices do I have to make in order to keep this web online while keep adding more videos to my site? Don’t believe me? Believe the numbers… 20 divided by 6 equals to 3,3folowing by many 3s enough for Siri to make a beatbox song! Too bad I have ZERO references (pun intended).

 

 

Cool, right? the video you just watched also taken from YouTube. After all, it’s “legal”. I added the punctuation because, by legal, I meant that the original poster also gets benefit everytime someone watched this video.

What If I’m a Greedy Bastard?

Well, that will make the both of us. This is the list of what you need to do:

1. Make a WordPress Website
2. Create a YouTube account

Make a WordPress Website

Follow the instructions given here.<— Yes, click!

Create A YouTube Account

I will be surprised if you haven’t got one already. If you already have a Gmail or Google account, that means you already have a YouTube account. Try opening YouTube with your Gmail account. Then, follow this to-do list:

1. Make a video, any video.
2. Post it on YouTube
3. Put it on your WordPress YouTube website<— just name it like this for now.

1. Make Any Video

You might realize that YouTube’s billions watchers are varied in ethnicity and likes. Even someone wearing makeups has been watched hundreds of times! Just make any video you like, it might become your WordPress YouTube niche later. Who knows?

2. Post It On YouTube

You might want to make a post-processing to your video before uploading it to YouTube to make your video more appealing. Cut all unneeded part, put yourself as the watcher. A kitten is cute, but displaying a kitten for 30 seconds will be boring unless it’s for the additional purpose of your audio track. but that’s kinda beat the purpose, don’t you think? If you’re a Linux user, you can try Pitivi, if you’re a Mac and Android user, there are tons of selection for it.

As the finishing touch, you might want to try Adobe Spark. You can also use Adobe Spark to decorate your YouTube channel.

Then, work your way around to post it on YouTube. Don’t forget to add the related tags and set your language right. My suggestion is to set your YouTube to the same language your WordPress in.

3. Put It On Your WordPress YouTube website

We don’t need any plugin to do this task. You can simply click the share button on your video and you can see two tabs there: EMBED and COPY. Both do similar task creating “something” to put on your WordPress YouTube website (or anywhere).

Just read along and don’t do anything until you get my punchline (I do this mistake a lot, copying from a tutorial).

Copy simply give you a shortened video URL so you can easily share it to any platform that only allows a limited amount of characters such as Twitter (but you can share easily to Twitter using the Twitter sharing button under the video). In this example, the video URL is: https://youtu.be/43T6nn6Cerc

Embed gives you more control, let me paste the same video code for you:

Both will lead you to the same video but we use it in two different manners. I won’t send 

 just merely to show my friend the video. It will make both me and my friends look dumb. And most likely my friend would ask me, “WTF are you sending me?”. So I’ll have to send https://youtu.be/43T6nn6Cerc instead.

Embed code, gives us iFrame, a well-known method to put a frame on the HTML page. Non-CMS (Content Management Service) users used this a lot because unlike CMS, plain HTML doesn’t show container and material style layout. We won’t cover this. This will also give us more control over the video.

Let me describe them:

iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ This tells us the video dimension. It’s 560 pixels wide and 315 pixels tall. We can freely change this to suit our need.

src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/43T6nn6Cerc?rel=0 This is the URL of our video. Of course, it’s different from https://youtu.be/43T6nn6Cerc, because this one is not shortened.

frameborder=”0″ allow=”autoplay; encrypted-media” allowfullscreen This line tells us if we want to use a border or not, allow autoplay or not, and other settings we can set from the Embed Tab.

 

Here is your Punchline!

 

 

• Copy everything here.
• Go to your WordPress post or create a new one
• Switch from Visual to Text
• Paste the code there
• Switch back to visual or directly make a preview

You can make the video appear in the center of the post by adding <center> before the code and </center> after the code.

In my case, it would be:

<center>

</center>

Boost It Even More!

These are some Plugins you should install!

• WP Movie Library
• IMDB Connector
• Woo Commerce
• Budy Press

1. WP Movie Library is WordPress plugin that enables you to make a movie database in seconds, just like IMDB. No more searching, copy and pasting. Even the promotional posters and other suggestion are also included.
2. IMDB Movie Connector gives you the placeable widget to put on your homepage, showing movie poster and synopsis.
3. Woo Commerce, you need to install this if you want to start your online store. Read more here.
4. Buddy Press, allows you to make a list of your returning fans database.

I Think that’s all for starting your own WordPress Youtube website. See you!

We will cover on How To Start Making Money From WordPress Website on the next session. So, stay tuned by following this website. Just hit the red bell on the lower right.

Maximize The Use of WordPress Widgets and WordPress Themes

Let’s Talk About WordPress Widget! First, we have to know what a widget is. A widget is a content made by plugins you installed from the third party (plugins), made automatically by the themes you’re using and by WordPress itself. We can combine all of them in order to maximize the use of WordPress widgets and WordPress themes.

There are different ways to get widgets and put them in the correct place to get the maximum benefit of them. In my Welcome page, I wrote some links to help you start easily and faster than if you have to follow the step by step tutorial here. But, if you want to know the core of building a WordPress website, you can continue reading this article.

Keep in mind that I’m not a programmer, and that’s the main reason I’m using WordPress in the first place. And if you’re reading this, I think we’re in the same boat now.

Let’s start with choosing WordPress Hosting

We can start from the scratch by buying our own domain and hosting plan and then install WordPress on it. Or using the way that I prefer, get everything from one place that offers WordPress hosting such as Namecheap.This is called self-hosted site. That way, our next step will be hassle-free, and on the top of all, it’s cheaper than using the service from WordPress.com. Even, WordPress.com is offering us many benefits, such as powerful and reliable CDN and sharing the profit of the advertisement with you. So, the choice is up to you.

Make a plan on how your site will work more, and worry less about design. Because Wordpress is a CMS (Content Management System) that offers templates. You can keep the focus on the content.

 

Selecting WordPress Themes

This is what I love about WordPress, I’ve been changing themes like hundreds of them. It offers so many cool and functional themes. Using the cool material design or today’s trending, Parallax is as easy as clicking a button. There are many free themes out there, with limitation. And there are also so many paid themes that offer us some time to try the demo.

Also read: 5 Cool and Professional WordPress Themes

My suggestion is, start with the simple one. Even the standard free themes displayed on the installation theme are good enough to start with. But be careful, not everything is reversible when changing themes. Sometimes two websites using the very same theme can be looked different. Depending on some factors, including the previous modification.

Also read: Cool WordPress Themes

Making First Post and Page

Don’t be confused about the term post and page. They both are displaying the similar front-end to you while they’re also different.

A post is something you make regularly, such as blog, article, and news. On the other hand, a page is something you need to be in one place, such as About, Contacts etc. Pages can add themselves to the menu, Posts don’t. Posts can appear on your blog, Pages (by default) don’t. This page you’re reading now is a post. Some of the menu on the menu bar leads to a page. Easy, right?

What if you wrongly make a post a page? You can easily install a plugin to convert the post to page vice versa.

Read tutorial about how to switch post to page here.

Adding Tag and Category

On the right (desktop) or below the text area, you can see Category and Tags (Uncategorized by default). You have to add the category according to your post by stacking it up every time you make a new post. category and Tag don’t show on the page editor because they are exclusively built for a post.

You should include this in the plan to avoid confusing yourself and your reader. I did it wrong, as you can see, my Category has bulked up way too many.

The category is something to classify your post into. For example, I want to make a catalog about a store that sells books and music records. In the book section, I’m asked to split both sections by genre.

So, I’ll make Books and Music as a category.

Then I make novel and comic as the tags for books and heavy metal, pop etc as the tags for music. Make sense, right?

Choosing WordPress Plugins

To me, using WordPress without plugins is like driving a Ferrari in a crowded street. Dull, no matter how cool our website looks. Using plugin helps us, non-programmer to achieve the goal faster. Less studying, more creating. Even I have to admit that most of my WordPress fatal issue only can be fixed by my fellow programmer.

This is a list of must-have WordPress plugins:

• Jetpack
• WPFC
• Yoast SEO
• WP Touch
• AMP for WP
• GTranslate & Polylang
• Facebook Instant Articles
• Cloudinary
• WP Quads
• Script Inserter
• Woo Commerce

Maximize The Use of WordPress Widgets and WordPress Themes

Jetpack allows you to share your post simultaneously to your social media such as Facebook, Tumblr, and Path. It’s easy to use because it’s very intuitive. Jetpack also allows you to sync your self-hosted WordPress to WordPress.com to use WordPress.com CDN. This will drastically increase the speed of your website.

WPFC, the acronym of WordPress Fastest Cache deals with the script that slows our web down. Use with caution because this plugin can render our web to behave strangely.

Yoast SEO is the best Search Engine Optimization for WordPress. It tells us how to write a post in a better way in order for the search engine to find our web better and faster too.

WP Touch is a cosmetic for your web to appear nicely on mobile devices. I have to admit that the AMP version of WordPress is ugly. WP Touch helps us to keep our reader comfortable on our site.

AMP For WP

AMP (Accelerated Mobile Page) is a must for any websites today. That’s since 80% of the time people use the internet are on their mobile phone/tablets. How can you attract more people if your reader finds an ugly and dull display on the article they’re reading?

If your article is interesting, most likely the reader will turn on the reading mode and that will kill your chance to show your reader some ads that should’ve been displayed there. AMP for WP answers to that and your web will look great with these customizable themes.

GTranslate and Polylang are translator plugin you can use to… well, translate. Read more about GTranslate here (if you don’t understand the language, simply change it with the button on the left). Polylang does something like that but in the broader way. It translates also the other parts GTranslate didn’t touch from counting the average reader on your post if you include certain language to translating your images and strings (not recommended, but go ahead if you know what you’re doing).

Facebook Instant Articles

You must have a Facebook Page to use this plugin. Instant articles is the way Facebook displays your associated website on your facebook page. You can associate them by using Jetpack plugin mentioned above. Now this sounds more productive, right? You can customize the look of your instant articles on your facebook page, so your web design will be overridden by Instant Articles. Facebook does this to keep your reader stay on Facebook. Your reader will continue reading instant articles on Facebook until they go too deep on your website, then Facebook will redirect your reader away from Facebook to your site. Facebook plugins is the easy way for you to apply Instant Articles setting to your website.

 Ready to make your WordPress website even cooler? Try animating your WordPress website here!

Cloudinary allows you to put your images on their cloud instead of populating your web with excessive pixels. Imagine this, you took an image from the internet with the size of 1200 x 800. Then upload it to your WordPress website only to display them in 300×200. You’re actually “forcing” your website to process unnecessary pixels of your image.

With Cloudinary, you put the image on the cloud, resize and even manipulate the image (still on the cloud) and then display it on your web. This will increase the speed of your web.

Money Maker

WP QUADS is a plugin to automatically display your Google Ads (or any Ads, or any script) on your pages and posts. If you see some ads displayed on this article, most of them are WP QUADS doing. After going through the one-time setup (after you’ve  finished all the steps from Google), you won’t have to worry about placing Ads manually ever again.

Script Inserter is used when you need to put some scripts on your WordPress websites, such as Google Analytics and Facebook Analytics. With this plugin, you don’t have to risk the safety of your website as the results of messing with the .php files.

Woo Commerce is the best option if you want to start your own online store. It’s easy to use on a daily basis but quite powerful to take care of stocks and payments.

Placing Widgets to Maximize The Use of WordPress Widgets and WordPress Themes

Placing widget is a very subjective matter since all themes have their own widget placement. But here is the most common:

1. Top <— on top
2. Header <— around the top area
3. Above Menu-Below Menu <— around the top menu
4. Left-Sidebar and Right-Sidebar <— on the left and right of content (pages/posts)
5. Footer <— all the way down placed under the content.

Go to Appearance > Widgets on your WordPress dashboard. You will see the widgets container on the right and the available widgets on the left. Some of the widgets were created by the plugins you’ve installed. You can drag and drop each widget to the container, or simply by clicking on the widget and then choose where you want it to be.

The most popular widget is HTML Arbitrary, in which you can put a script such as Google AdSense or Amazon affiliates script. That way, you can have additional ads appear on your website as the addition of those WP Quads put.

It’s always fun experimenting. What fun does a chemical lab have without a small Kaboom?

I guess that’s all for “Maximize The Use of WordPress Widget and WordPress Theme”.

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