为什么您不应该将视频上传到WordPress

Images, audio, and video make the web rich. Adding videos to your website certainly adds value to your content and increases the likelihood that your audiences would react to it. However, you would notice that most people using WordPress prefer to use a third-party video sharing service such as YouTube or Vimeo to upload their videos. One of our users asked us, if they can upload videos on their WordPress site. The answer is yes, but we don’t recommend you to do that. In this article, we will tell you why you should never upload a video to WordPress.

图像，音频和视频使网络变得丰富多彩。 将视频添加到您的网站肯定会增加您的内容的价值，并增加观众对其做出React的可能性。 但是，您会注意到，大多数使用WordPress的人都喜欢使用第三方视频共享服务(例如YouTube或Vimeo)来上传他们的视频。 我们的一位用户问我们是否可以在自己的WordPress网站上上传视频。 答案是肯定的，但是我们不建议您这样做。 在本文中，我们将告诉您为什么不应该将视频上传到WordPress。

上传与嵌入(有区别) (Upload vs. Embed (There is a Difference))

Before we tell you why you should never upload or host videos in WordPress, let us make sure that everyone understands that there is a difference between upload vs. embed.

在我们告诉您为什么永远不要在WordPress中上传或托管视频之前，让我们确保每个人都了解上传与嵌入之间存在差异。

Uploading or Hosting a video means that you will upload videos on your site like you would upload images on your site. This is the part that we are recommending against.

上传或托管视频意味着您将像在网站上上传图像一样在网站上上传视频。 这是我们建议反对的部分。

Embedding a video means that you upload a video on a third party site like Youtube, and then you can easily embed it in your blog posts. We strongly recommend folks to embed videos whenever they can.

嵌入视频意味着您将视频上传到第三方网站(如Youtube)，然后可以轻松地将其嵌入博客文章中 。 我们强烈建议人们尽可能地嵌入视频。

轻松分享 (Easy Sharing)

Embedding a video in WordPress is easier. You can share a video uploaded on YouTube or other video sharing sites by just pasting the URL in your blog posts. It is also easier to manage a channel on YouTube. On the other hand it is not so simple in WordPress to create a video section separately from your images and other uploads. You can take your video uploaded on YouTube to social media and reach out to a wider audience. By uploading your video on YouTube and other video sharing sites, you make it easier for your viewers to share your video. One of our other website has over 11 million video views on Youtube.

将视频嵌入WordPress更容易。 您只需将URL粘贴到博客文章中，即可共享在YouTube或其他视频共享网站上上传的视频。 在YouTube上管理频道也更加容易。 另一方面，在WordPress中将视频部分与图像和其他上传内容分开创建并不是那么简单。 您可以将在YouTube上上传的视频带到社交媒体上，并扩大受众范围。 通过将视频上传到YouTube和其他视频共享网站，您可以使观看者更轻松地共享视频。 我们的另一个网站在YouTube上的观看次数超过1100万 。

带宽 (Bandwidth)

Uploading videos to your website will cost you bandwidth. Higher quality videos cost more bandwidth. If you allow users to embed it on their own websites, then the bandwidth gets multiplied each time the video is embedded else where. You will probably also have to add more plugins to manage and display your videos. These plugins will also increase your server load. If you are on shared web hosting, then chances are that your host will suspend your website and temporarily take it down.

将视频上传到您的网站会占用您的带宽。 高质量的视频花费更多的带宽。 如果允许用户将其嵌入自己的网站，则每次将视频嵌入其他位置时，带宽都会成倍增长。 您可能还必须添加更多插件来管理和显示视频。 这些插件也将增加您的服务器负载。 如果您使用共享虚拟主机 ，则主机可能会暂停您的网站并暂时将其删除。

可见度和流量 (Visibility and Traffic)

According to Alexa rankings, YouTube is currently the world’s second most used search engine and the third most visited website. This alone compels many website owners to upload their videos to YouTube. Uploading a video on YouTube can bring more viewers than uploading it on your own website. Social networking features of YouTube and other video sharing websites can trigger viral popularity of your videos.

根据Alexa的排名，YouTube目前是世界第二大使用率最高的搜索引擎和第三大访问量网站。 仅此一项就迫使许多网站所有者将他们的视频上传到YouTube。 与在自己的网站上上传视频相比，在YouTube上上传视频可以吸引更多的观众。 YouTube和其他视频共享网站的社交功能会触发视频的病毒式传播。

视频质量优化 (Video Quality Optimization)

When you upload a video on sites like YouTube or Vimeo, they process each video for a better web experience. Viewers can choose whether they would like to watch your video in HD or on lower resolutions. Also these websites attempt to automatically detect a user’s internet connection and device type to play the video in a quality that is best for the viewer. If you upload your video on WordPress, then you are missing out on those optimizations and your video will display as it is, costing you more bandwidth and destroying user experience.

当您在YouTube或Vimeo等网站上上传视频时，它们会处理每个视频，以获得更好的网络体验。 观看者可以选择是否要观看高清或较低分辨率的视频。 这些网站还尝试自动检测用户的互联网连接和设备类型，以最适合观看者的质量播放视频。 如果您将视频上传到WordPress，则会错过这些优化，并且视频将按原样显示，从而浪费了更多带宽并破坏了用户体验。

We hope that this article answered the question on why you should never upload or host a video on WordPress. If you have anything to add or have any questions, then feel free to leave a comment below.

我们希望本文能够回答有关为什么您永远不应该在WordPress上上传或托管视频的问题。 如果您要添加任何内容或有任何疑问，请随时在下面发表评论。

翻译自: https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/why-you-should-never-upload-a-video-to-wordpress/