{"id":2746,"date":"2026-10-20T08:36:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/how-to-add-a-video-to-a-listing\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T08:39:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:39:00","slug":"how-to-add-a-video-to-a-listing","status":"publish","type":"gd_place","link":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/core-features\/how-to-add-a-video-to-a-listing\/","title":{"rendered":"How to add a video to a GeoDirectory listing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GeoDirectory has a Video field for this. Add it to your post type, and listing owners paste a YouTube or Vimeo link into it. GeoDirectory then shows the video player on the listing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Add the Video field<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Go to Places &gt; Settings &gt; Custom Fields.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Find Video in the list of fields you can add, and add it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Save.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keep the field key as <code>video<\/code>. GeoDirectory embeds links automatically for a field with that key.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What to enter in the field<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paste the address of the video page on its own, for example <code>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VIDEO_ID<\/code>. GeoDirectory turns links from any service WordPress can embed, such as YouTube and Vimeo, into a player. If you see the link as plain text, check that the URL is complete and is the only thing in the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where the video appears<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Add the video to a tab on the details page in Places &gt; Settings &gt; Tabs (see <a href=\"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/how-tos\/how-to-use-the-tabs-builder-in-geodirectory\/\">How to Use the Tabs Builder in GeoDirectory<\/a>), or show it anywhere in the Details Page template with GD &gt; Post Meta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-markup\">&#091;gd_post_meta key=&quot;video&quot; show=&quot;value&quot;&#093;<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Embedding media in other fields<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To embed links in a different textarea field, open that field in Places &gt; Settings &gt; Custom Fields, click Show Advanced and tick Embed Media URLs. It works for videos, images, tweets, audio and anything else WordPress can embed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GeoDirectory has a Video field for this. Add it to your post type, and listing owners paste a YouTube or Vimeo link into it. GeoDirectory then shows the video player on the listing. Add the Video field Keep the field key as video. GeoDirectory embeds links automatically for a field with that key. What to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"article\/tags":[],"article\/categories":[421,213],"class_list":["post-2746","gd_place","type-gd_place","status-publish","hentry","gd_placecategory-core-features","gd_placecategory-extensions-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/gd_place"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2856,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2746\/revisions\/2856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"gd_place_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/tags?post=2746"},{"taxonomy":"gd_placecategory","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/categories?post=2746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}