Update May 18, 2016 – I have stopped using jwplayer, I don’t want to be hosting the raw mp4 files on my site, I didn’t find that jwplayer adapted well when changing screen resolutions, and it was hard on mobile users. I’m back to YouTube, and I couldn’t be happier.
One of the coolest plugins I’ve found as I’ve tried to add video to the family blog is jwplayer (site, wordpress plugin). It allowed me to stop publishing family videos to youtube, but rather host them myself. I want to show you how to customize this plugin so that your blog looks great.