An interesting video can attract tons of traffic to your site, there are number of viral sites these days which are receiving huge traffic from social sites with catchy videos.

If you have your thoughts in the same line, WordPress is a platform where you can start your video site quickly and with minimum investment. There are number of WordPress themes which are custom made for video sites, check out these 10 amazing WordPress video themes.

So, if you are creating a video site from scratch on WordPress platform you can start your journey with GoDaddy by finding a great domain name which is easy to remember and brandable.

Once your domain name is registered, get a reliable hosting service from somebody like HostGator and finally you need to choose a theme which is close to your expectation. You can go for a custom made video theme or any other theme which you like.

In this post we will discuss about some interesting WordPress plugins for video sites which will help you to create or enhance the performance of your site.

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FV WordPress Flowplayer

FV WordPress Flowplayer is a free WordPress plugin, with this plugin you can easily embed FLV or MP4 videos into your posts or pages. You can use your own custom design before and after the video as per your requirement.

This plugin supports responsive design, HTML5, playlists, ads, stats, Vimeo, YouTube.

Google XML Sitemap for Videos

Sitemaps are very essential component of any website, the sitemap will inform Google, Bing and other search engines about web pages, images and video content on your site that they may otherwise not discover.

The Video Sitemap plugin will generate an XML Sitemap for your WordPress blog using all YouTube videos that you may have embedded in your blog posts.

Ultimate Video SEO plugin

Ultimate video SEO plugin is a advanced video SEO plugin for WordPress which covers all aspects of video SEO. It automatically fetches video SEO details from videos of all major video hosting providers and submit it to video sitemap.

This plugin also supports self host videos with all WordPress supported video formats.

HTML5 Video Player WordPress Plugin

A simple video player plugin with multiple skins, number of options to show the playlist. A responsive video plugin to help you create a great looking video site instantly.

WordPress Video Plugin

A nice video plugin for WordPress sites, it allows users to embed videos from 66 video platforms.

Automatic Featured Images from Videos

This is a new but useful WordPress video plugin, if you place a YouTube or Vimeo video within the first 1000 characters of a post, the thumbnail of that video will automatically set as the featured image.

Video Wall

Another superb video plugin for WordPress, it comes with multiple predefined layouts. It can generate thumbnail of YouTube video automatically.

WordPress Video Gallery

WordPress Video Gallery Plugin has a whole set of amazing features and options that make the product a versatile one. In addition to the quickly visible options such as recent Videos, popular Videos and featured Videos.