A New Chapter for Video Uploads on WordPress.com

We’re excited to announce that you can now add chapter breaks to VideoPress uploads.

December 21, 2022

Dan

Today we’re excited to announce that you can now add chapter breaks to the videos you upload to your website with our VideoPress feature. Chapters offer a quick way to navigate longer videos and can be a great addition for your viewers.

Streamlined interface

We’ve built a streamlined and easy-to-use interface for your viewers to interact with video chapters. You can hover over the timeline to preview the next chapter and then simply click to navigate to it. The current chapter name is shown after the video timecode, and when you click it opens a menu to quickly jump to the start of any chapter:

How to add chapters to your videos

To add chapters to your video, all you need to do is edit its description in the block editor and add the timestamp for each chapter, followed by a title you’d like to display:

After saving, you’ll see the video block update and automatically display your chapters.

In the video below — which is a showcase for WordPress 6.1 — you can see how chapters work and look. Play around with the bottom toolbar to navigate to different chapters and bring up the chapter list.

We hope you enjoy this feature! Please share any feedback you have or an example of where you’ve used chapters for your videos. We love to see our features in action!

VideoPress is available on our WordPress.com Premium, Business and eCommerce plans. If you have a self-hosted site, check out Jetpack VideoPress to get high-quality and ad-free videos for your site.

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  1. Nomad Skateboarding Dec 21st at 7:20 pm

    Very happy with this update! Using Video Press via Jetpack on all my sites, so already a fan. Just another reason I’m all in with you good people. 🙂🙌

    Liked by 6 people

  2. Kaycee Dec 21st at 9:42 pm

    Very nice

    Liked by 6 people

  3. Muhammad basit Ali Dec 21st at 10:43 pm

    Great 👍

    Liked by 6 people

  4. Samuel Star Dec 22nd at 12:52 am

    This sounds great

    Liked by 6 people

  5. Roger Smith Dec 22nd at 7:32 am

    It’d be good to work through this with a younger more computer savvy person. I have 2 WordPress sites that I could be loading videos onto. R

    Liked by 5 people

  6. deepanilamani Dec 23rd at 12:11 am

    Thank you. It’s great to be posting videos!

    Liked by 4 people

  7. Jkund Dec 23rd at 3:34 pm

    How is this better than just using YouTube, where you have unlimited storage and way more features to utilize.

    Liked by 3 people

    • Dan Dec 23rd at 6:09 pm

      Good question! The main advantages are that VideoPress is ad-free and that it integrates directly with the WordPress media library so that you don’t have to deal with embedding from other services.

      Here’s a comparison:
      VideoPress comparison

      There’s more details at VideoPress.com if you’d like to learn more.

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  8. Jkund Dec 26th at 6:47 pm

    Well that chart seems a bit outdated. As a small youtuber, you def have access to your video library, are to make edits with their basic video editor and not too sure what extra seats means. But it’s very easy to add and editor. And anyone reading this still, biggest feature is the space youtube saves you. As Vimeo + Videopress both cost money.

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  9. greiner99 Jan 15th at 5:44 pm

    This is awesome.

    Liked by 2 people

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