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Embed private Vimeo videos using a personal access token

Show private or domain-restricted Vimeo videos in WordPress and the WooCommerce product gallery using a Vimeo personal access token.

Private Vimeo videos cannot be embedded from the URL alone — Vimeo has to authorise the request. VideographyWP PRO uses a Vimeo personal access token to do that, so your private videos embed like any other.

Create a Vimeo access token

  1. Go to developer.vimeo.com/apps and create an app (any name and description).
  2. Open the app’s Authentication section.
  3. Generate a personal access token with the scopes needed to read your videos (at least public and private).
  4. Copy the token — Vimeo shows it only once.

Add the token to WordPress

  1. Open Settings → VideographyWP → API Keys.
  2. Paste the token into Vimeo personal access token and save.
The Vimeo personal access token field on the VideographyWP API Keys tab
Paste your Vimeo access token on the API Keys tab.

Embed the private video

  1. Edit a post, page or product and paste the private Vimeo URL in the VideographyWP box.
  2. Query it — the token authorises the request and the video embeds correctly.

Note: in the video’s Vimeo privacy settings, make sure embedding is allowed and, for domain-restricted videos, that your site’s domain is on the allow-list.

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