How to Add a Fullscreen Video Background in WordPress

In the content marketing era we live in, the importance of video cannot be overstated. Tons of marketers turn to video platforms like YouTube or Vimeo to upload their video content and then set out to embed the videos on their own websites and social networks to further expand their promotion. However, instead of just embedding and/or viewing videos, to truly engage your audience and increase engagement with your brand, consider: Adding a fullscreen video background to your WordPress site additionally. And that’s exactly what we’re going to explore today, so be sure to keep reading as we tackle it:

Benefits of Adding a Fullscreen Video Background to Your Site

By adding a full-screen video background to your pages, you not only help your website look more vibrant, colorful and engaging, but also increase your potential to stand out from your competitors. As the name suggests, full screen video backgrounds are displayed on the entire screen, and you can set them so that your videos play partially (by choosing the specific time you want them to be played) or completely.

Video backgrounds simply represents an attractive and visually immersive animation effect on your pagebut they too It has the potential to better engage, entertain and inform your audience about what you have to offer.. They can also make them stay on your website longer and explore more.

There are several different ways to add a fullscreen video background to your WordPress site – you can use a page builder, a custom video plugin, use a WordPress theme, or even combine some of these methods. This time we will show you how to easily incorporate this engaging video element into your WordPress site. using our own Qi Theme and the handy Elementor page builder.

Setting Page and Content Width Using QI Theme

One of the easiest ways to add a video background to your WordPress site is to use a theme that comes with video background support. As we suggested earlier, Qi Theme is a great freemium WordPress theme that you can use for exactly this purpose. Along with the ability to add a full-screen video background to any of your pages, this theme is also packed with tons of useful features and modern demos to help you create almost any site imaginable. You’ll be able to completely change the look of your headers and footers, create a fully functional blog and store, choose from many adjustable layout styles, and more. Of course, Qi Theme is fully compatible with both free and premium versions of Elementor page builder, so you will be able to use the help of this handy page builder to create, customize and format your video background. Extremely convenience.

Without further ado, let’s take a look at how you can do this.

after you’re gone Pages >> Add New (or when going to edit the already existing page), you need to make sure to set your page’s template to be full width. This is important as it will allow you to easily set your video background to appear full screen later on.

So, you have to go ahead and Under the Template section select “Elementor Full Width” (on the right side of your screen).

After doing that, you need to click on the button at the top that says “Edit with Elementor”.

Once in Elementor backend, Press the “Add New Section” (+) button.

Then you need to set the whole section to be full width as well. you can do it with change Content Width choice (inside Order left section) with full width.

Adding and Customizing the Full Screen Video Background

Once you’ve eliminated that, you can start adding and customizing your video background.

To do this, go to: style tab. Inside Background Type You will see in the section four different background types to choose from. One of them Video – you will easily recognize it as it is marked with a small camera icon. Click this camera icon to select the video background type.

Once you’ve done that, a whole new set of options will open up allowing you to set your video background options in full detail. First, what you need to do copy and paste the URL of the video you want to use as your background. Copy the link from YouTube, Vimeo or any link that leads to your video file (preferably in mp4 format). Video link area.

From then on, you can continue set your video background start and end time (in seconds), choose whether you want to play the video once, choose play on mobileetc. You can also choose an image called Background Fallback or an image that will appear on the screen if the video does not load.

Finally, you need to make sure that your video background will be displayed in “full screen”. What you need to do to do this turn back Order set tab and Height option fit to screen.

Right after selecting this option, you will be able to see a full-screen preview of your video background in the backend.

shoot me Publish/Update button after you’re done. make your settings and you are ready.

You can go ahead and preview your page to see how your full screen video background looks in action.

Wrapping Things

And there you have it – an easy way to add and customize a full screen video background in WordPress. While many modern WordPress themes have the ability to set up and set this type of background on your pages, we highly recommend using a QI theme for this task. The theme is fully compatible with both the free and premium versions of Elementor, so you will be able to set your video background options entirely according to your preferences using Elementor’s intuitive interface. You just have to select the video URL you want, make sure you choose the exact width for both your template and content width, and then follow all the other instructions we shared above. If you do, you will be able to create stunning full-screen video backgrounds for your WordPress site in no time.