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1. andymacdonalduk
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hey Guys,

   I need a little advice. I want to be able to feature videos from my 'Videos' category in much the same way I do with my photo gallery category.

   To feature picture gallery posts, I use wp-post-thumbnail, but I want to be able to do exactly the same thing, but with videos. So instead of having a thumbnail displayed in the sidebar, can I automatically call out the video which is inside that post, and display that instead?

   I know there are youtube plugins out there which will allow me to feature a number of videos in my sidebar, but they all require that I have a list of video URLS in their settings page.

   What I am looking for, is to 'automatically' display videos from inside posts in the videos category. Is there something out there which will enable me to do this?

   Your advice will be very much appreciated, and thank you in advance.

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_children

3. andymacdonalduk
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thank you Esmi.

   I shall have a look through that codex and no doubt, If I run into any trouble, Ill be sure to let you know. :)

4. andymacdonalduk
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi Esmi,

   I looked into that get_children thing you linked me to, and I genuinely don't understand a word of it, or how I can put it to use to give me the result I am looking for.

   Any chance you could give me a basic idea of what I need please? All I want to do is put a box in my sidebar, and display a video from a random post in the 'Videos' category of my site.

   Any help or advice you give me will be very much appreciated. Thanks for your time.

   Andrew.

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