Online video site Viddler has announced a new plugin for Wordpress 2.5 (currently in beta testing) that lets you browse for and embed videos directly from Wordpress.

Here’s what’s new in this version:

• Dashboard widget You can now watch, and help promote, our daily featured videos right from within the Wordpress administration dashboard. There is a preference in the options panel to turn this off.
• Viddler videos in Add Media pop-up One of Wordpress 2.5’s flagship features is the new “Add media” pop-up window when writing posts and pages. Now, you can add Viddler videos in several ways.
  • Featured videos - Like on the dashboard widget, you are now able to embed featured videos quickly.
  • Your videos - One quick search for your username, and you can page through every public video you have on Viddler and embed them in your posts.
  • Search - The search features lets you find, and embed, any video on Viddler by searching by tag and/or username.
  • Record - Using your webcam, or any camera attached to your computer, you can use Viddler’s recorder to quickly record a brand-new video and embed it in your post, all without leaving your Wordpress admin.
• Fixed Wordpress 2.5 jQuery conflict Both our plugin and Wordpress use jQuery, the state-of-the-art Javascript framework, and version 1.0 of our plugin causes conflicts with Wordpress 2.5. Now that is fixed!
• Several other bugs fixes and enhancements.

Details are available at the plugin Wiki.