{"id":757,"date":"2026-05-11T21:18:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T21:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/style-guide\/?p=757"},"modified":"2026-10-02T14:22:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T14:22:50","slug":"video-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/web-training\/2026\/05\/11\/video-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Block"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Getting Started<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Video block lets you upload or embed a video so it can be viewed on your page. It supports common video formats and provides playback controls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can find demos and usage guidance for this block on the official <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/article\/video-block\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-mtsublue-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-mtsublue-background-color has-background is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Accessibility Best Practice<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Include captions and, when possible, a transcript to ensure the content is accessible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-mtsublue-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-mtsublue-background-color has-background is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Keep in Mind<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MTSU suggests using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/style-guide\/2026\/05\/11\/youtube-embed-block\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"761\">YouTube Embed block<\/a> as it saves website storage and bandwith, ensures faster page loading, and provides a familiar, optimized player for visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-mtsublue-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-mtsublue-background-color has-background is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Video Example<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"720\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1280 \/ 720;\" width=\"1280\" controls src=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/style-guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/big_buck_bunny_720p_1mb.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Video block lets you upload or embed a video so it can be viewed on your page. It supports common video formats and provides playback controls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,26,17,8],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blocks","tag-accessibility","tag-media-block","tag-video","tag-wordpress-blocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/web-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/web-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/web-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/web-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/web-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/web-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2168,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/web-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/2168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/web-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/web-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/web-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/web-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}