Photo & Video

Which Video Chat Provider is Best? When it comes time to think about if you want to do a live video chat there are a few options. Skype (https://www.skype.com/en/) 50 participants Mobile app and desktop Zoom (https://zoom.us/) 100 participants but only displays 49 people in a gallery view Mobile app and desktop Facebook Live (https://www.facebook.com/facebookmedia/solutions/facebook-live) No limit Mobile app and desktop Facebook Messenger (http...

How to Upload New Photos to Media Library Often if you want to use photos across many pages, and outside of the gallery, it's easier to upload them all to the Media Library where they will be available to use everywhere. 1. Admin > Media 2. Admin > Media > Add New This will open the upload window, from here you can drag and drop or select a file through your file browser.

How to Upload a New Photo Directly Into a Page If you would like to add an image to a page via the Media Manage this guide will show you how. NOTE: To upload photos directly to your photo gallery, you can do that more easily through the front end tool. Just go to the gallery and click > Upload Photos If you want to place an image on a page, it's easiest if you are on the page and place your cursor where you want the image to appear. If you want to just upload to the Media Library and de...

How to Arrange and Organize the photos once they are posted Go to your photo album page and click 'Photo Album Manager' on the top bar, this brings you to the admin area for that page. Then scroll down till you see this button. When you click on Photo Album Manager > Upload/Edit/Manage Photos button you'll see all your images in the gallery and here you can drag them to rearrange, and add in photo captions if you want. You can find the Photo Album Manager from the Host Control ...

Web Baby Shower has built-in photo editing tools you can use to crop, resize, rotate or edit titles and captions for your photos. 1. From the Host Control Panel Dashboard, choose the Photo Album Manager 2. Click on the "Upload / Edit / Manage Photos" button 3. The Photo Album Gallery dialog box will open Click on the photo you wish to edit In the Right Column, click the Edit Image link You can use the text fields on the page to edit the Title, Description, Caption, Alt Text...

Placing videos on your site from other websites Video always needs to be hosted somewhere to show up on the web. We offer a private hosting video server to all customers, simply go to your Video Library (https://help.webbabyshower.com/145799-How-to-Upload-a-Video) to upload a video securely. However, sometimes that video is already hosted, ( like YouTube or Facebook ) and more easily accessible to just place it's code on your site, this is called 'embedding' but it's really just cut and past...

How to Embed videos from Google Photos or Drive This is a great video that explains how to do this, it has some steps to and and is much easer to see on video. We've cued the video to start 20 seconds in at the good part. Keep in mind, if your video is on your computer it's much easier to directly upload to your site (https://help.webbabyshower.com/145799-Videos-Help-Upload-a-Video) using our private video hosting! 1. Go to your google drive and open the video you want to embed. ...

To feature a video that is hosted on an external website (eg: YouTube) and embedded on your Web Baby Shower home page (or any other page!): - Make sure you have copied the “Share URL” from the video hosting service (see Embedding Instructions above) - In the Theme Options page in the Host Control panel, choose “Graphics Theme” > “None”, and click Save Changes - Go to the Home Page Manager (or the Page Manager of the page where you wish to feature an embedded video) - At the very to...

How To Display a Video on your Web Baby Shower To add a video to the Video Album in your Web Baby Shower: 1. Log into your Web Baby Shower Host Control Panel 2. To display a video that you uploaded using the Video Library, please use the Video Library > Manage Videos to choose to display your video on your Web Baby Shower Video Album or Home Page. The Video Library will have a table with your videos in it. In the “Display on Page(s)” column, check the “Video Album” box in the row tha...

How to Upload a Video WebBabyShower maintains a professional, private video hosting account so that hosts and expecting parents can share personal, “home” or “selfie” videos related to their baby showers, pregnancies, adoptions, and/or new babies, right from the Web Baby Shower Host Control Panel. If you are looking to add a video to your shower that is already on the web, like hosted on YouTube, please see the Embedding Video's Guide (https://help.webbabyshower.com/749248-Videos-Help-Embeddi...

Your Web Baby Shower comes with a Video Album already turned on and ready for you to fill with pregnancy, baby shower & new baby videos! - If your videos are not yet uploaded anywhere, please use the Video Library to upload your videos to your Web Baby Shower. - If you wish to use or have already used, a 3rd party video hosting service, including YouTube, to upload your video(s) please visit your videos at that service and find the "share" information. You can use the Video Album Mana...

Autosave / Backup Messages Web Baby Shower automatically saves your introduction / main page content in the background on the Home Page & Guest Book. If you leave the Home Page Manager or the Guest Book manager without saving your changes, or if you lose your connection, you may see the following message the next time you visit your Web Baby Shower: Please note: A backup copy of this post was saved automatically and it is different from the version below. * To dismiss this message and keep...

For very large videos, sometimes it's difficult to upload them to our private server from your home machine. A great fix is to create the video as an Unlisted video on youtube, then use it's link to place the video anywhere you want. In YouTube, "Unlisted" means that only people who know the link to the video can view it (such as friends or family to whom you send the link). An unlisted video will not appear in any of YouTube's public spaces (such as search results, your channel, or the Brows...

For very large videos, sometimes it's difficult to upload them to our private server from your home machine. A great fix is to create the video as an Unlisted video on youtube, then use it's link to place the video anywhere you want. In YouTube, "Unlisted" means that only people who know the link to the video can view it (such as friends or family to whom you send the link). An unlisted video will not appear in any of YouTube's public spaces (such as search results, your channel, or the Browse ...

The “Featured Images” are displayed in “square” format and are auto-cropped for you, if you do not choose to crop them yourself as you are uploading the image. If the auto-crop cuts off heads or other important parts of the photo, you can crop the image yourself as follows: - Click “Set Featured Image” to set a new featured image or double-click on an existing Featured Image to edit it - From the Upload Media / Featured Image dialog box, make sure the photo is “checked” and then click “Ed...

Autosave / Backup Messages Web Baby Shower automatically saves your introduction / main page content in the background on the Home Page & Guest Book. If you leave the Home Page Manager or the Guest Book manager without saving your changes, or if you lose your connection, you may see the following message the next time you visit your Web Baby Shower: Please note: A backup copy of this post was saved automatically and it is different from the version below. * To dismiss this message a...

September 2015: Good news! This issue has been fixed at Web Baby Shower! Any photos added to your Web Baby Shower from an iOS device after September 22, 2015 should be rotated properly across all devices and browsers when viewed on your Web Baby Shower, automatically! Since this issue has been fixed at Web Baby Shower since September 2015, this page is here strictly for reference purposes, in case you run into this issue on other websites. For a complete description of the issue and further su...

Your photos will appear as thumbnails on your Web Baby Shower Photo Album page. If you click on a photo thumbnail, the photo will open in Lightbox overlay. The Lightbox will have a larger version of the photo (if there is one), the caption or title, and navigation buttons to view other photos from your Photo Album in the Lightbox. Please note that the Lightbox navigation buttons will hide themselves after 5 seconds of inactivity. In most modern web browsers, if you simply tap or click the photo...