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      Creating & Managing a Video Media Item

      To add a video to the site you will need to have it hosted on an external platform and conform to WCAG (AA) Standards

       

      To add a video to the site you will need to have it hosted on an external platform and conform to WCAG (AA) Standards - Read Adding Videos

      Creating the Video Media Item

      First you need to copy the embed code from the hosted video platform. 

      • Youtube: Right click the video and select copy embed code

      Using the information about Type/Name below to follow the instructions about Creating and Managing Media Items

      Type Embeddable Script
      Name

      Video: [Add a short name to help identify it]
      Code

      Paste in the code that you have copied (See note below if your website is based on the Luna Theme - How to find the Website Theme)

      Luna Theme

      If your website is based on the Luna Theme then you will need to manually add some code to make this work. See example below:

      <div class="aspect-w-16 aspect-h-9">
      [Embed code from youtube here]
      </div>

      How to add the Video Media Item

      Once created Media Items will appear within the WYSIWYG Editor, when you are managing your content, within the Media Dropdown in the tool bar.

      Media Dropdown Media Drop Down
      • It will place the item on the page in relation to where your cursor is
      • It will appear in text form - i.e. %%media-34%%
        (the number is unique to the media item created, so each one will have a different number)

      The Widget will be automatically inserted instead of the Media Item when you preview the page.