As a small business owner or solopreneur striving for growth, utilizing YouTube, particularly by enabling users to upload videos, is essential. YouTube, being the second-largest search engine globally, offers a robust platform to elevate your brand visibility in previously untapped markets, thus fortifying your search engine results.
So if you’re not already enabling video uploads to YouTube, now is the time to start.
Creating a YouTube Account
Before you can upload a video to YouTube, you need first to create a YouTube account. You can sign up using your Google account. If you need assistance, refer to Google’s YouTube Help guide on setting up a YouTube channel.
YouTube requires that all video uploads must include a minimum of the following:
- video title
- video description
- video file
✨ When constructing your form, remember to include a field for each item in the list above.
Setting Up Your WordPress Form
To get started, you’ll need the following:
- Ninja Forms core plugin ( download here ).
- Zapier account.
- Zapier add-on.
- File Uploads add-on.
Once these are set up, go to Ninja Forms > Add New. Select the Blank Form template. To ensure the video file, video title, and video description fields required by YouTube are included, add two Single Line Text fields for the video title and the video description.
Then, add the File Upload field and select the “Allowed File Type” to be MP4, MOV, MPG, or WMV. You can also set limits on the file size.
✨ Here is a list of the complete file types acceptable to YouTube and WordPress.
These features will give you more control over dictating what your user can upload—preventing users from uploading unnecessary files.
Launching the Zapier workflow
Connecting YouTube to WordPress is super easy. You just have to know how!
Zapier is a powerful tool that allows you to connect different applications and automate workflows. With the right form builder, any form on your website can connect to YouTube via Zapier.
Let’s look at how to set this up!
1. Get set up with Zapier.
The Ninja Forms Zapier add-on is the tool that establishes the link between WordPress and the application you want to send data. First, get Zapier installed and activated on your website.
Next, create an account with Zapier themselves. Now you’re ready to get started!
2. Make a Zap and authenticate YouTube with Ninja Forms!
Integrations between applications handled by Zapier are called Zaps. We’ll be creating a Zap that will connect Ninja Forms with your target service. It’s super simple. Just log into your Zapier account and click “Make a Zap!”
TL;DR Setup
- Search for the Ninja Forms integration, then pair it with YouTube.
- Scroll down the page until you see the blue Connect YouTube + Ninja Forms button, and click.
- After that, you will be redirected to the Zap page with the Trigger and Action automatically added.
3. Set up Ninja Forms as your Trigger App
Next, choose Ninja Forms to act as a trigger. This is the event that will kick off your automation. After that, select the New Form Submission event as your trigger. This step should take about 15 seconds.
Next, copy the Zapier webhook URL and paste it into the Zapier action of the form you want to use:
After pasting in the webhook, be sure to click Done, Publish, then Preview and Submit your form before continuing in Zapier.
✨ Be sure to enter data into each field before you submit, even if it’s not a required field!
When you finish this, continue in Zapier and test the action. This will confirm whether or not a secure connection exists. They’ll offer troubleshooting advice on the odd chance that it fails. After a successful test, it’s time to move on!
4. Set up YouTube as your Action App
Setting up your Action App is very similar to the Trigger App we set up above. Choose your event; in this case, Upload the Video, and then click Continue. After that, you will be asked to sign into your YouTube account.
From here, click Continue. Finish up by mapping out the action, making sure to include the Title, Description, and Video from your form submission.
✨ Set the Privacy Status to public. In order for your video to be uploaded to YouTube, you need to list the video as public.
After that, click Continue, test, and that’s it! Zapier will test your data flow to confirm the connection. So what’s next? Well, the answer is up to you. Zapier includes over 5,700 integrations to choose from. So let your imagination lead the way.
Yippee uploading YouTube videos with WordPress is easy!
Congrats! You now know how to upload videos to YouTube with WordPress. So what are you waiting for? Give Zapier and File Uploads a try!
Now that you know how to sync YouTube with WordPress, it’s time to explore the uncharted territories of Zapier’s capabilities. Here are a few tutorials to pique your curiosity:
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We’re eager to hear what Zapier integration you’d love to see next. Your ideas fuel our innovation!
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