Problems with playlists in custom fields

Resolved Kevinlikes
(@kevinlikes)

9 years, 9 months ago

Hi Futta
Thanks again for a great plugin. I’ve started using Autoptimize too, which has also been wonderful.

I’m currently working on a development site where we’ve been using a lot of custom fields with YouTube Lyte. It’s all worked well, with the exception of playlists. For example on http://bit.ly/1r8IebE, I’m trying to embed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGp5kDFMLbE&list=PL3573FB8C217FCF4C as the featured video. But if I paste qGp5kDFMLbE&list=PL3573FB8C217FCF4C, it just embeds the first video, not the full playlist. And if I try use playlist?list=PL3573FB8C217FCF4C, it doesn’t embed at all, and if I use PL3573FB8C217FCF4C, it embeds a blank video and tells me the video doesn’t exist when clicked.

Would love any pointers on what I’m doing wrong. Thanks so much.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-youtube-lyte/

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Plugin Author Frank Goossens
(@futtta)

9 years, 9 months ago

hi kevinlikes;
are you using lyte_preparse()?

frank

Thread Starter Kevinlikes
(@kevinlikes)

9 years, 9 months ago

Hi Frank.
Yes, we are. I’ll need to get my developer to talk it through with you if you need more detail than that though…

Kevin
Plugin Author Frank Goossens
(@futtta)

9 years, 9 months ago
There is no logic in lyte_preparse that allows to differentiate between video’s and playlists. Your developer could instead create “lyte_preparse_playlist”, probably something like;
```
function lyte_preparse_playlist($PLid) {
    return lyte_parse('httpv://www.youtube.com/playlist?list='.$PLid);
}
```
and for custom fields that contain a playlist, call that function instead of lyte_preparse().
Simon Barnett
(@simbasounds)

9 years, 9 months ago
Hi Frank,

Yes, lyte_preparse(). We are pulling it from a custom field with the following code:
```
add_action( 'genesis_before_entry_content', 'lyte_video_custom_field' );
function lyte_video_custom_field() {
	$video = get_post_meta(get_the_id(), lyteID, true);
	if(function_exists('lyte_preparse') && $video) {
		echo lyte_preparse($video);
	}
}
```
I don’t mind creating another custom field for playlists if that’ll help.
How does one parse playlists?

Thanks,
Simon
Simon Barnett
(@simbasounds)

9 years, 9 months ago

You’re too fast, Frank : ) Thanks so much

Thread Starter Kevinlikes
(@kevinlikes)

9 years, 9 months ago

Thanks Frank. Your response time is amazing, as always.

Plugin Author Frank Goossens
(@futtta)

9 years, 9 months ago

Happy you guys are happy, have a great weekend!

frank

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