Use the SmartVideo WordPress plugin’s own widget to add a video to your Elementor page.
- Install and activate the SmartVideo plugin. Copy the Swarm CDN Key shown at the top of your Swarmify dashboard. In WordPress, open SmartVideo in the admin sidebar, paste the key into the Setup tab, and click Enable SmartVideo. The plugin loads the SmartVideo script for you; don’t also paste the global SmartVideo snippet onto the page.
- Have your video ready. You can pick or upload a WordPress Media Library file from inside the widget in step 4. For a video hosted elsewhere, use a publicly accessible video file URL. If the video is in your SmartVideo Library, use the source URL from its Media Details page; keep the
swarmify://prefix. - Open your page in Elementor, search the widget panel for SmartVideo, and drag the SmartVideo widget where you want the video.
- In the widget’s Video section, set Source to Media Library and click Choose Video to pick or upload your file. Or leave Source on URL and paste your video URL into Video URL.
- Save and publish the page, then open the published page in a private browser window and play the video to check it. This checks the published page rather than the builder preview. If the page is restricted to members or enrolled students, open it while logged in as a test account. A video usually takes about as long as it runs to convert, and longer when our encoders are busy.
Shortcode alternative
Add a Shortcode widget where you want the video. In its Content tab, under Shortcode, paste this into Enter your shortcode:
[smartvideo src="https://your-video.example.com/file.mp4"]Replace the example URL with your video’s file URL or SmartVideo Library source URL, then save and publish the page and check it as in step 5.