LearnPress video hosting

LearnPress video hosting that keeps lessons on your site

Keep LearnPress for enrolment, progress and certificates. Serve the lesson video from DynTube instead of your WordPress host—adaptive streaming, your own player, optional delivery controls and lesson-level reporting, added with one embed code.

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Illustration: a LearnPress lesson on your domain with the DynTube player embedded

Set-up

How do I add a DynTube video to a LearnPress lesson?

Four steps, following LearnPress’s own documentation for where embedded video goes. No plugin, no theme change.

  1. 01

    Copy the embed code from DynTube

    Upload the lesson into a DynTube project, wait for processing to finish, then open the video’s Embed Code and copy the responsive iframe. External embedding depends on your plan; project defaults such as player settings and domain rules apply to uploads made after you set them.

  2. 02

    Open the LearnPress lesson

    Edit the lesson from the course curriculum. LearnPress lessons hold text and media in their content area.

  3. 03

    Paste the embed into the content

    In the block editor add a Custom HTML block; in the classic editor switch to the Text tab. Paste the embed code where the video belongs and update the lesson.

  4. 04

    Check it as a learner

    Open the lesson in a private window with a student account. The player should load on your domain, adapt to the connection and show the branding and controls the project allows.

What changes

What changes when the lesson video comes from DynTube

The LMS keeps running the course. The video stops being a heavy file on your WordPress host and becomes a stream with its own controls.

Adaptive streaming, off your WordPress serverDelivery
Lessons are processed into adaptive HLS and served from DynTube, so a class pressing play at the same time does not land on your web host, and each learner gets a quality that suits their connection.
Your player, without someone else’s brandPlayer
The embed plays through the DynTube player with no third-party ads or recommendations. Appearance and behaviour options are configurable per project.
Delivery controls where you switch them onProtection
Encrypted on-demand HLS and the list of domains the player may load on are optional, plan-dependent project settings. They raise the effort needed to lift a lesson; no setting makes a video impossible to copy.
Captions you attachAccessibility
Upload WebVTT or SRT captions per language. Automatic captions are a separate, metered workflow.
Lesson-level reportingMeasurement
Views, watch time, completion, geography and device per lesson, where your plan includes analytics. Learner-level detail appears only when your site passes its own learner identifier to the player.

Working with LearnPress

What to know before you switch LearnPress lessons

Configuration guidance, so nothing surprises you after the move.

  • Watch for iframe lazy-loading

    LearnPress’s own guide notes that a video can fail to show for learners when a performance plugin lazy-loads iframes. If the player is blank for students, exclude the DynTube iframe from lazy-loading.

  • Completion stays in LearnPress

    Lesson completion and course results remain LearnPress settings; the player does not report completion back to the course.

Questions

LearnPress video hosting questions

Why is the video blank for students in LearnPress?

The most common cause LearnPress documents is a plugin lazy-loading iframes. Exclude the DynTube iframe from lazy-loading, then reopen the lesson as a student. If it still fails, check your role was allowed to save the raw HTML when you pasted it.

Do I need a DynTube plugin?

No. DynTube does not publish a WordPress plugin. You paste the embed code DynTube gives you into the lesson, which keeps your site free of another plugin to update.

Will this stop students downloading my lessons?

It makes it harder, not impossible. Optional encrypted HLS and domain restrictions stop the simple routes—right-click saving a file or reusing your embed on another site—when they are enabled. Anything a learner can watch can still be recorded.

Do I have to move every course at once?

No. Move one lesson, check it as a learner and compare it with what you have today. Lessons you have not moved keep playing from wherever they are now.

Move one LearnPress lesson and watch it as a student

Upload one real lesson, paste the embed, and compare it with what your learners see today.

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