For today’s savvy internet entrepreneur, WordPress offers an inexpensive, convenient and easy way for you to design your own website. TikiLIVE recognizes that you have put a lot of heart and soul into your website. That’s why we have developed tools and hosting so you can integrate your video content with your WordPress site easily.
Appearance & Widgets
Administering your content for WordPress while logged in to your TikiLIVE account is also easy. Simply go to your Account Dashboard and look for the WP Dashboard button on the left column of the TikiLIVE Dashboard. Click on the button for access to the WordPress Dashboard. Note: You will need a subscription that allows you to have a WordPress platform and then request access to the WP Dashboard.
WordPress offers a variety of themes that will allow you to embed your TikiLIVE hosted video content ina way that is eye-catching and appealing. By integrating TikiLIVE and WordPress, you will be able to access both your channels and videos from TikiLIVE while on your WordPress site. There are a variety of widgets available that will help you customize your TikiLIVE content. Note: The number of widgets depends on the chosen theme.
Some widgets that are helpful are:
• Featured Channel – Plays a live channel from TikiLIVE on the home page of your WordPress site.
• Featured Radio Channel – Plays a radio channel from TikiLIVE on the home page of your WordPress website
• Featured Video – Plays a prerecorded video from TikiLIVE on the home page of your WordPress website
• Upcoming Days Events Widget – Lists future TikiLIVE events by day on your WordPress website
• Video Highlight Widget – Displays one or more of your TikiLIVE videos in a highlighted box
• Videos Widget – Displays your TikiLIVE videos on your WordPress website
Live Video Stream Broadcasting on your WordPress Site
Reaching your customer base via WordPress is another great way to get the word out about your business and communicate with many people quickly. Your employees will also benefit by simply accessing your WordPress website in order to view training videos, live events, as well as a prerecorded knowledge base.
TikiLIVE has worked tirelessly to make sure your experience integrating your video content goes as smoothly as possible. You will still have a broad range of control and display options while embedding your channels and videos into WordPress.
Once you have accessed your WordPress Dashboard, the following steps will allow you to use widgets to stream your TikiLIVE digital video content.
• From the WordPress Dashboard, select Appearance and then Themes
• Select a theme that you like but also contains the widgets you need to deliver the TikiLIVE content
• Look for the Appearance menu and then click on the Widgets link underneath
• On the right side of Widgets you can view the Home Page Content area. This will display what the viewer will see when landing on your website.
• Select and then drag and drop the appropriate widget, from the Available Widgets area, to the Home Page Content area. This can be any of the widgets referenced above.
• Save all changes before leaving the page.
• Navigate to the home page to verify the widgets have embedded the channels and videos you selected.
Additional Benefits
Just because you are working with a different platform does not mean you lose out on any of the great things TikiLIVE’s content delivery network gives you. Far from it! You will still have the benefits of TikiLIVE’s robust infrastructure plus additional benefits by allowing your content on your WordPress site.
• Mobile Device Playback – Mobile users that come to your WordPress site will have no problem viewing video content since TikiLIVE will still provide HTML5 encoding that will make playback no problem. As more users access web sites from their mobile phones than ever before, it is important to always be thinking about your user’s mobile experience.
• E-Commerce – Monetizing your content will still be no issue with our Pay Per View capabilities. Just because your videos are on WordPress does not mean you have to let people view them for free.
• Video Programming – Use TikiLIVE’s Channel Manager and you can set up a playlist for your digital video content in whatever order you determine. Show your viewers your content even while you are asleep.
• Event Scheduling – The Upcoming Days Events widget will get your viewers excited about what great content you will have in the near future.
• Viewer Analytics – TikiLIVE has cutting edge analytical tools that record viewer habits. You can check out how your content performs on your channels through daily, monthly and yearly stats.
• Content Sharing – WordPresssite viewers who enjoy your TikiLIVE hosted content will be able to share your content on social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and Google+.
TikiLIVE Delivers Quality Content Deliver for WordPress
Making your high quality digital video content to be available on WordPress will increase your audience and communication strategies with potential customers, employees, and the world at large. WordPress is one of the leading CMS platforms that can allow you to maximize your online exposure. Your business can only benefit through the number of places where your content is accessible.
TikiLIVE can provide you with the robust and stable infrastructure to make your WordPress site another quality destination for viewers of your content. TikiLIVE’s commitment to its encoding quality does not change either. Viewers of your WordPress site will have no issue with video content regardless of whether they see it on tablets, mobile devices, or computers. Your brand is best built through a variety of distribution methods and TikiLIVE is there to make sure it all happens seamlessly.
Not only do we deliver a high quality infrastructure with a stable hosting network; we deliver some of the best available customer service. We bring a focus and knowledge on your behalf for your distribution solution regardless of platform or format. We look forward to crafting a personal TikiLIVE package for you. Call us at (305) 289-4557 anytime and let TikiLIVE put you on the road to success!
