SmartVideoPlus V4 (Installation User Guide)

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Introduction

SmartVidePlus is a WordPress plugin which allows you to change your standard WordPress installation into a video style CMS with full admin panel video embedding capabilities. SmartVideoPlus can be used on 80% of WordPress themes but not all of them, it also has problems when loaded with a few other other plugins, but works perfectly well with most plugins you will find for the WordPress platform.

This powerful plugin also comes complete with a dedicated new theme just for hosting a video WordPress website with, latest videos, most viewed videos, top rated videos, category view and list view plus much more, we highly recommend when using SmartVideoPlus that you use the theme supplied as its been coded especially for the SmartVideoPlus plugin. The SmartVideoPlus theme supports video posts only!

Packaged

Installation

Follow the instructions step by step to install SmartVideoPlus to your WordPress Website.

Fixing The Popup Player For Internet Explorer 6,7 & 8

Open the following file /plugins/videoswiper/lightwindow/css/colorbox.css

Once you have this open scroll down and find the following CSS,. its right at the bottom of the file

.cboxIE #cboxTopLeft{background:transparent; filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src=./wp-content/plugins/videoswiper/lightwindow/images/internet_explorer/borderTopLeft.png, sizingMethod='scale');}

This is repeated 8 times and you will need to update all 8 lines, find this in each line

-->(src=/wp-content/plugins/videoswiper/lightwindow/images/internet_explorer/borderTopLeft.png, sizingMethod='scale');}

Now add the direct URL to your wordpress install before /wp-content/ so it looks like this

-->(src=http://www.my-website-name.com/wp-content/plugins/videoswiper/lightwindow/images/internet_explorer/borderTopLeft.png, sizingMethod='scale');}

Remember to do this for all 8 lines of CSS, this will render the transparent images and border around the popup player when viewed in Internet Explorer.

Configuration of Video Views

To configue video views is really simple, go to your settings link in your WordPress admin panel, scroll down to (PostViews) click on the link, now the very top setting is (Count Views From) in the dropdown select (Everyone) leave all other settings as default then scroll down and find (Save Changes) save and your done. This will now show the number of views each video had had.

Changing The Ad Banners For Your Own Ads

Putting your own advert banners into the default ad placement holders is as easy as ABC because we have included a full set of ad files for you to simply edit with your own ad code and the ads will start displaying your ads in place of ours.

Adding Sponsored Links to The Footer

Again this is a very easy process & all you have to do is open one file and edit the links to suit your needs.

Using Google Analytics

Simple copy & paste will allow you to add Analytics in just seconds to your SmartVideoPlus websites.

Using The Twitter Tweets

Again we make this a simple one step solution to display all your latest Twitter tweets on your video blog.

Adding Your Twitter & Facebook Usernames

Again we make this a simple one step solution to connect to Facebook & Twitter on your video blog.

Editing Scrolling News Text at The Top of The SmartVideoPlus Theme

In the steps below we show you how to add your own news text & links into the scrolling ticker.

FaceBook Application ID, Required for FaceBook Likes

In the steps below we show you how to get your own facebook application ID required for facebook LIKES.

To do this open header.php in the themes/SmartVideoPlus/ folder, you should see on line 6 & 7 two meta property tags, you will see on line 7 the meta property tag for the facebook API string, next to it you should see an arrow guiding you on where to add your facebook API string, once added into the content="" area you can save and close the header.php file.

Now when anyone clicks the LIKE button on your posts the facebook API will post this as a status update to that users wall, great way to gain huge free traffic.

END OF NEW INSTALLATION

Upgrading

Follow the instructions step by step to upgrade your SmartVideoPlus WordPress Website.

Upgrading from SmartVideoPlus 2.0 / 3.0 to 4.0

First of all we highly recommend you backup your WordPress website files and database but this is optional, because you are upgrading you will already have the SmartVideoPlus plugins at least & theme if using ours and not your own.

Because both the theme has been upgraded and the plugins upgraded or replaced we will need you to DISABLE and remove (uninstall) the plugins that came with SmartVideoPlus, we have listed the plugins to be removed below.

We highly recommend that you disable any of your own plugins while you upgrade to make sure it goes smoothly, you can enable your own plugins again after the upgrade (Be aware that a few plugins do not work with SmartVideoPlus).

Now upload and overwrite all the theme files in /themes/SmartVideoPlus/ themes directory from the zip download to your /themes/SmartVideoPlus/ folder on your WordPress installation.

We Now Add Back in The New Plugins

Upload all the following plugins to the /plugins/ directory of your WordPress website

Now make sure you go to your plugins area of your WordPress admin panel and enable all the plugins listed above, if you are using the S,martVideoPlus theme then make sure you have that enabled too.

Its important now that you totally clear your browsers cache as you will not see changes to the theme or functionality while the old cache of your site is active.

Please Also Read Fresh Install Docs Above For Plugin Configurations

Please read the settings writen above in the new fresh install section to see how you must configure your new plugins. Click Here to Jump to Plugins Configs

You Can Read The Fresh Install Guide Click Here to Find Out How to Use All The 4.0 Features

VideoSwiper Intergration

The easiest way to show you how to intergrate your WordPress site with VideoSwiper to mass embed videos instead of doing it one at a time from your WordPress admin panel is to watch the video below, you will see from this video how fast and powerful the VideoSwiper application is and just how big you can make your WordPress video websites in no time at all.

Customer Support

As a valued customer of Route66Solutions, developers of SmartVideoPlus you will be given full technical & customer support through our helpdesk Support Centre (you will need an account) you have unlimited access to limetime updates & new versions through your Route66Solutions account (Downloads) section.