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You will need to upload a video or choose a royalty-free video from YouTube before populating background
Installing the Plugin
- Download the YouTube Background Video Player from the suggested plugin box
- Click Install Plugin on the mb.YTPlayer for background videos plugin pop-up
- Click Activate Plugin
- Go to Settings => mb.YTPlayer
- Go to Pages => Add New
- Create a page and set template to Home Page – YouTube
- Important: Make sure that the Home Page you created is set to the Static Front Page in the theme customizer (Appearance => Customize) or the video background will not display
- Go to the url of your YouTube video and click on Share
- Copy the Share URL
- Check the box to activate the background video
- Paste the URL in the YouTube URL field
- Set the static Homepage option
- Customize options based on how you would like your video to display