Placing video in a theme home page slider

MamasLT,

Thank you for the kind words!

Unfortunately, as of right now there is no way to edit the blog page if it is set as “your latest posts.” This is because video background uses get_post_meta() to get the information from the page or post. Since it is set to “your latest posts” it does not have a page or post ID to pull that information from.

I do have some things in the works though that may support this in the future. I will keep in touch if this feature is supported!

Have a great day.

Thanks, You too! ??

Just a heads up for anyone coming here later: If you maybe got a widgetized frontpage and no actual page to access for the settings: There′s an easy workaround.

1.) Search for the codesnippet to enable shortcodes in textwidgets (if your theme doesn′t support that) and add it to your theme′s/childthemes functions.php.
2.) Then drag a textwidget into the widget area in question and use the shortcode the plugin provides (with the fitting class or ID of the containing div/wrap). Wrap it in a div with a custom class maybe, so you can use CSS to style it accordingly.

That′s basically it. Works even for body if you make sure there′s no colored div/element covering it. Tested in Genesis with Dynamik childtheme, works. ??

Code sample to add to textwidget:
<div class="herovid">[vidbg container="#ez-feature-top-container-wrap" mp4="#" webm="#" poster="#" loop="true" overlay="false" muted="false"]</div>

Edit: You can also place it in a hook with a conditional, if you′re familiar with that:
<?php echo do_shortcode('[your_shortcode_here]') ?>

Have fun!