Publishing Brightcove Players in your Blog

A lot of our publishers are using blogging software and so much blogging software likes to make blogging incredibly easy for the end user. One of the side effects of "easy" is that trying to do something complicated isn't. Because the Brightcove player uses all kinds of fancy code, many bloggers run into trouble. This article will explain posting methods for Movable Type, a popular blogging software.

Most other blogging software will allow you to publish with our HTML Embed code, or even our JavaScript code. In addition, Brightcove provides support for publishing to Wordpress, Blogger, and TypePad directly from the Brightcove player. If you are unable to post a player with your blogging solution, please submit a support case.

Movable Type

Step One

Select your player in the "Players" tab in the Brightcove Console. Then click the "Get Publishing Code" button in the bottom right-hand corner. We recommend using the JavaScript code. Copy that code to your clipboard and open your Movable Type blog.

Step Two

At the very beginning of the JavaScript code (before the first

<SCRIPT>

tag), type:

<div>

Step Three

At the very end of the JavaScript code (after the last

</SCRIPT>

tag), type:

</div>

That's all you need to do.

Using the <DIV> tags tell Movable Type to turn off the automatic line and paragraph breaks it inserts as a courtesy to the user. These "breaks" interfere with all sorts of code and prevent our player from working in most browsers.