If you follow us on Twitter, you know every now and then we’ll post a link to awesome stuff we catch via iPhone and post on Tumblr for Phil’s grandma in New Mexico to see. I’ve been wanting to do video on our blog for a while now; I finally got around to trying it out this morning using this clip of Phil’s atrocious table manners. (He’s super cute, which makes up for being a little rough around the edges.)

If your site’s built using WordPress and you have a smartphone, I highly recommend downloading the WordPress app. It lets you write and publish posts and pictures on the go, and that’s a neccessity when fresh content keeps blog readers coming back. One thing I discovered this morning, though. It is awful at uploading video.

The workaround that I’m using to get video from your iPhone to your WordPress blog takes more steps, but works. Get yourself a YouTube account. Using the YouTube app, upload your blog video to your YouTube account. THEN, when it’s posted and public (it takes a little time to process, be patient!) go to your video’s page, and underneath the video hit the “share” rear endon. Click “embed”, and you’ll see a chunk of code appear that starts with < iframe . Copy alllllll that code, go to the html view of your blog post, and paste. Voila! Video blog!

An added bonus to this is getting increased visibility to your site by having your videos on YouTube. Make sure to have your website link in your YouTube profile, so people that find you via your videos there can visit your website!