Videos scattered across a site are hard to browse, and one embed per page is a lot of pages.
The Media Listing block gathers them into a single gallery, and each video can come from a different source.
For every Media Listing setting in one place, see the Media Listing block guide.
Before You Start
- Edition: Pro — the Media Listing block is part of Nexter Blocks Pro.
- Block to enable: Media Listing, switched on under Nexter > Blocks in your WordPress dashboard.
- Your videos ready: uploaded to the Media Library, or their YouTube or Vimeo links to hand.
Steps
- Add the Media Listing block to your page and click Design from Scratch.
- In the Layout panel, set Type to Videos.
- Open the Content panel and click + Add Item for each video.
- On each item, set Source to Self Hosted, YouTube or Vimeo.
- Fill in the field that appears for that source, then add a Title and a thumbnail Image.
- Choose a Layout and set Columns, then publish.
The Three Sources
| Source | What you provide | Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Self Hosted | A video file from your Media Library | — |
| YouTube | The video ID from the YouTube URL | YouTube video gallery |
| Vimeo | The video ID from the Vimeo URL | Vimeo video gallery |
How It Behaves
- Source is set per item, so one gallery can mix self hosted, YouTube and Vimeo videos.
- Each tile shows the thumbnail image you set, with the video opening on click.
- The video layouts use the same Columns and gap settings as an image gallery.
- Switching Type back to Images hides the video items rather than deleting them, so you can switch back.
Limitations
- Pro only.
- Videos are added one item at a time. There is no way to pull in a whole YouTube channel or playlist.
- Thumbnails are the image you choose per item, so a video with no image set has a blank tile.
- Self hosted videos are served from your own site, so large files use your bandwidth on every play.
Troubleshooting
The Content panel still shows the image picker
Type is still on Images. Set it to Videos in the Layout panel.
A tile is blank
Set a thumbnail Image on that item. The tile has nothing to show until you do.
