Guides
Task-shaped answers to the video questions people actually search for.
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Video hosting for WordPress: the practical guide
Why uploading video to the WordPress media library breaks, and the three real options: a hosted platform, a player plugin over your own storage, or YouTube.
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How to embed a video on a website
The embed code that actually works: responsive sizing, lazy loading, autoplay rules, and how to avoid the layout shift most video embeds cause.
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Video SEO: getting your video pages found
What genuinely affects video visibility: an indexable page per video, VideoObject structured data, chapters as key moments, transcripts, a video sitemap and a crawlable thumbnail.
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How to build a video landing page that converts
Where the video goes, how long it should be, what the thumbnail must say, and where to put the CTA — using the retention curve to decide instead of guessing.
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How to capture leads inside a video
Where to place an email gate, when a gate costs more than it earns, and how to get the captured address into your CRM the moment it arrives.
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How to add video chapters (and why)
Chapter timestamps done right: how many, how to title them, how they appear in the player, and how they become key moments in search results.
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How to password protect and privately share a video
Unlisted links, passwords, domain-locked embeds and signed tokens — which one to use for client reviews, paid lessons and internal recordings.
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HTML5 video player: what you get free and what you have to build
What the native <video> element gives you, what it does not (chapters, captions UI, HLS, analytics, branding), and when to stop building your own.
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Custom video player branding without building one
How to make an embedded player look like part of your product: accent colour, radius, logo, control set, poster and end screen.
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Self-hosted video vs a hosted platform
An honest comparison: what self-hosting costs in bandwidth, transcoding and maintenance, and what you give up by using a platform.
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How to read video analytics and act on them
Play rate, retention curve, completion and CTA click-through: which metric each problem lives in, and what to change when it moves.
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How to publish a webinar replay that people watch
Cut it, chapter it, decide whether to gate it, and give it a page that can be found — the four steps that separate a used replay from a dead recording.
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Video in email marketing: what actually works
Email clients do not play video reliably. The pattern that works: an animated thumbnail linking to a page whose video autoplays, with the click and the play both measured.
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How to choose a video hosting platform
The seven questions that separate video hosting platforms: pricing model, branding, embeds, analytics depth, access control, integrations and exit.
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Elsewhere in the library
- Answers — Direct answers to the questions people ask about Videokr, one sentence first.
- Documentation — How every part of Videokr works, written for the person configuring it.
- Comparisons — Where Videokr fits, and where it is honestly the wrong choice.
- Blog — Method and opinion on video that has a job to do.