5 Best Wordpress Themes For Video Blogs
Introduction
Video blogs are picking up popularity among Wordpress bloggers. When you have decided to go for a video blog or vblogs, it is not easy to find perfect Wordpress Themes. I am going to talk about 5 Best Wordpress Themes, you can choose for your vblogs.
What is Video Blogs?
Video blogs are Wordpress blogs which contain most of the content as videos. It can be a self-hosted videos or cloud-based videos like Youtube, vimeo etc.
You can use Vide blogs for your portfolio where you can display your favourite videos or create a community around it and charge money for videos.
Thank Wordpress plugins, you can now create similar website or blogs like Youtube.
The requirement for video blogs is different, you need it to be responsive, the option to import videos from a different platform.
There are also a lot of ways to monetize your blogs; you can use video ads, use memberships and restricted videos to earn more from your blog
Do You need a separate Theme for Video blogs?
The Answer is yes. most of the Wordpress Themes are made for article, text or some images. A video is a different content.
Most of the times we do not have any text but just videos.
The vblogs homepage, post, pages everything should be different. The themes should be transparent to the users and they must feel it is a video blogs in one instance.
Please see below Top 5 recommended Wordpress themes for video blogs
Vblog
Vblog is made for video and Youtubers. It can present both articles and videos in a dynamic way.
If you are looking for video blogging, video tutorials or anything related to video; this is a great choice.
Features of Vlog
- Youtube and Vimeo import options
- Convert video into the playlist
- video thumbnails auto detect
- Watch later and movie mode fullscreen
- More than 200+ Post design combinations
- An option of Sticky videos at sidebar
- Optimized for Speed
- Option for ads banner on top and sidebar
- Build in social sharing
- Woocommerce enabled
and many more...
TheMotion
TheMotion is a professional video blog theme with awesome sets of traits. Once you will upload this theme to your blog, you can quickly import the demo site and it is awesome.
You can then add your content to the demo site and customize it.
You can customize colors, homepage, image background, video backgrounds and tons of features.
Features of TheMotion:
- Easy Digital Downloads compatible
- BBPress compatibility for forum creation
- Woocommerce ready to sell your products
- Upload video from Youtube and Vimeo
- Video thumbnail and playlist customization
BeTube
BeTube is one of most powerful responsive Wordpress theme for video blogging with the option to create the community around your video blog.
It has 10 demo sites to import quickly and create your homepage. You can preview the demo and then select the best one for your blog.
You also have an option to monetize your blog by integrating with video advertising plugin. You can use google adsense to display video ads.
Features:
- Video upload with thumbnail options
- Full documentation available
- Feature and design options
- Youtube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, Hulu integrations
- Single or Full width video layout
- Various slider layouts
- 8 headers style
- 2 Profile pages option
- Option for self-hosted videos
- 100% Responsive
Videoly
Videoly is a WordPress theme made for video bloggers.
I loved the feature of video thumbnail in Videoly where you have the option to play video or go to the article directly.
It also has 9 readymade template for the homepage. You have the option to add video within the post.
You also have the option to design page with drag and drop builder.
Features
- 9+ Templates for homepages
- 6+ Article post layout
- Create visual drag and drop element
- Full 100% responsive
- Premium plugin 'Visual Composer' & premium Photoshop toolkit free with the theme
- Sticky social media and video
- Gallery post
- Review option with ratings
- Built for Speed
VideoTouch
VideoTouch is highly adjustable Wordpress Theme to display videos.
It is a great theme for online photography, portfolio or video bloggers. It has a number of layout option to completely customize the blog.
It is completely responsive and adjusts itself with any type of devices.
It hs WooCommerce integration to help you sell the product online through your video.
Features
- Exclusive live chat support
- Front-end video upload with Wordpress dashboard
- Youtube, Vimeo, Dailymotion etc integration
References
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