Once you have built a player, there are four ways to put it in front of visitors.

Four Ways to Embed

Method 1: The Shortcode

The most flexible option, and the one that works everywhere.

Step 1: Copy the Shortcode

Open your media item and click the Embed step. Your shortcode is shown there, ready to copy:

You can also copy it directly from the row in your Media library.

Step 2: Paste It Where You Want the Player

Paste it into any page, post, text widget, or page-builder text block. Publish or update.

That’s it — the player appears exactly where the shortcode is.

Every item’s shortcode uses its own ID. Copy the shortcode from the item you actually want; the number is not something you should guess.

Method 2: The TruePlayer Block

If you work in the WordPress block editor and would rather not handle shortcodes:

• Edit your page or post.
• Click + to add a block.
• Search for TruePlayer and insert it.
• Choose your video from the picker.

The block renders exactly the same player as the shortcode — it is the same code underneath, just a friendlier way to insert it.

Method 3: The Popup Embed

A button that opens the video in a lightbox over your page. Nothing loads until it is clicked, so it costs your page almost nothing.

With a label:

Good for landing pages, where you want a video available without it dominating the layout.

Method 4: Instant Video Pages

Requires TruePlayer Pro.

One switch gives your video its own clean, standalone web page — title, player, description, and nothing else. No theme header, no sidebar, no navigation.

Step 1: Enable It

Open your media item, go to the Embed step, and turn on Enable the instant page.

Step 2: Share the Link

Your video is now available at:

https://yoursite.com/tp/123/

(where 123 is your video’s ID)

Useful for:

• Sharing a video in an email or chat message without building a page for it
• Sending a client a single clean link
• A distraction-free viewing experience

Instant pages are off by default. A video only gets a public page when you deliberately switch it on.

Why Your Pages Stay Fast

Video normally makes pages slow. TruePlayer avoids this by default.

Instead of loading the whole video machinery when the page loads, it renders just a still image with a play button. No video element, no YouTube iframe, no streaming library — none of it loads until someone actually clicks.

The result: a page with videos on it loads about as fast as a page with images on it, and visitors see no difference at all.

Two extra touches:

• Intent warming — when a visitor’s mouse moves toward the video, TruePlayer quietly begins preparing the connection in the background, so the click feels instant.
• No layout shift — the still image matches the player’s exact shape, so nothing jumps around when the real player takes over.

You can change this per video with the Load strategy setting under Player → Behaviour.

Frequently Asked Questions