Trying to add a WooCommerce video to the product gallery?
The goal of any product page is to convert visitors into buyers. WooCommerce enables you to design high-converting product pages that include summaries, calls to action (CTAs), reviews, and of course images. However, in today’s time, many customers prefer to watch product videos before making a decision.
Adding WooCommerce videos to a product gallery can make them more engaging. Although WooCommerce doesn’t support video on product pages by default, you can easily introduce this feature using plugins.
In this article, we’ll show you how to add WooCommerce videos to a product gallery in three code-free steps. Let’s do it!
How to add WooCommerce video to product gallery
WooCommerce doesn’t support video for product galleries out of the box. This means that if you want to include WooCommerce videos in the product gallery, you will either have to use a plugin or add the feature manually.
For this tutorial, we’re going to focus on using a plugin, as it’s the easiest way for most users. There are many plugins that can do this, but we recommend the Free Product Video Gallery for WooCommerce plugin.
Step 1: Install Product Video Gallery for WooCommerce
This plugin is our pick because it meets a few important criteria:
- It offers a free version that works fine for most stores.
- You can use YouTube videos, which is often a better solution than trying to host them locally. The premium version supports additional video types, such as self-hosted HTML5 video or Vimeo,
- It gets regular updates.
The YouTube integration is essential as it means you don’t need to host the videos locally. Video files eat up a lot of server space and bandwidth, which can ultimately negatively impact the performance of your WooCommerce store.
Hosting WooCommerce videos on YouTube is smart because there is no limit to how many videos you can upload. WordPress also enables you to embed YouTube videos on your site out of the box. However, that feature is not available in the base WooCommerce product editor.
To get started, go ahead and install Product Video Gallery for WooCommerce (here’s how to install the plugin). The plugin doesn’t require any configuration, so we can go straight to the next step.
Step 2: Upload the videos you want to use
This process will depend on which version of Product Video Gallery for WooCommerce you are using. The free version of the plugin only works with YouTube videos. This means that you will need to use a Google Account to upload product videos to the platform.
To get started, go to YouTube and select the Pour option at the top of the screen. This will open your YouTube Studio dashboard, where you’ll see the option to start uploading:
If this is your first time using this platform, we recommend watching videos from the YouTube upload tutorial, The tutorial will walk you through the process of uploading, categorizing, and configuring videos before they go public.
Uploading videos to YouTube is mostly simple. However, keep in mind that you may want to set the visibility of the video to unlisted If you don’t want random users to be able to find them via a YouTube search:
Videos should be published automatically. You can review them and copy their URLs from the YouTube Studio dashboard. Keep that tab open, because you’ll need it for the next step.
At this point, you can go ahead and upload all the product videos you plan to use. This process may take some time depending on your upload speed, so you may need to be patient.
If you’re using the premium version of Product Video Gallery for WooCommerce, you’ll also get support for Vimeo and HTML5 videos hosted on your server (MP4, WebM, and Ogg). However, the free version of the plugin is more than sufficient for most stores.
Step 3: Add WooCommerce Videos to the Product Gallery
Now that the video is ready to play, all that remains is to add it to the product gallery. To get started, open the WooCommerce editor for the product you want to customize.
Here’s how it looks when editing a product gallery in WooCommerce. The editor enables you to choose a particular product image and add as many items as you want to the gallery so users can move through them:
If you try to add a video file to the product gallery using this Add Product Gallery Images, the uploader will allow you to (as long as it’s in a supported format). However, the video will not work or display on the product page and you will only see a placeholder product gallery Widget:
Product Video Gallery for the WooCommerce plugin adds a new product video url section at the bottom of the editor page. Here, you’ll find the option to include a YouTube video by pasting its URL:
After adding the URL click on Updates to save the changes. The video will now appear in the product’s gallery along with the rest of its images:
Visitors can play videos without leaving the product page. You can move seamlessly from video to product images and back again.
All that’s left to do now is repeat the process for any other product videos you want to add. Hosting your videos on YouTube will save if you run a large WooCommerce store Very of storage space.
Add your first WooCommerce product gallery video today
WooCommerce Needed Support video in product pages out of the box. However, while they work on adding this and other quality features, you can use plugins to make product pages more attractive.
The combination of video with great product pictures means customers have a variety of ways to check out an item before deciding to buy.
Adding WooCommerce videos to a product gallery is easy if you have the right plugin. Here’s how the process works:
- Establish a Product Video Gallery Plugin for WooCommerce.
- Upload the videos you want to use.
- Add WooCommerce video to product gallery.
