This is exactly what I want! But What if I deleted the plugin for some reason?

You can easily enable that with a couple of lines of code as documented in lyte_helper.php_example Kaleyko.

Because I don’t want Lyte to handle normal youtube links by default and because it’s easy to enable using the API.

What you want to do is:

1. copy /wp-content/plugins/wp-youtube-lyte/lyte_helper.php_example to /wp-content/plugins/lyte_helper.php
2. open the file and on line 23 remove the double slash at the beginning to have:

   add_filter('lyte_content_preparse','lyte_force_nonhttpv',10,1);

3. enable the lyte helper plugin in your wordpress admin

Concerning positioning of the player; you should be able to do that by applying some CSS to the lyte; float:left on lyte-wrapper and clear:both on lL should do the trick.

Regarding playback on iOS; there were problems with that which were fixed in the latest release, should work fine on older versions of iOS as well.

hope this helps,
frank

No, you need the two of them; “lyte helper” relies on “wp youtube lyte”.

If you would make the changes to the original lyte_helper.php_example it would not appear in the list of plugins to be activated.

have a nice weekend,
frank

Not sure I understand, can you provide a link (to a blogpost with the problem or to a -partial- screenshot)?

ah, that’s one of the reasons I don’t like WP YouTube Lyte to automatically parse normal youtube URL’s 😉

Anyway, that’s something that can be changed in the example code in lyte_helper.php.

On line 25 you could try changing

$content=preg_replace('/https?:\/\/(www.)?youtu(be.com|.be)\/(watch\?v=)?/','httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=',$content);

into for example (off the top of my head, not tested, this could start a thermo-nuclear war)

$content=preg_replace('/\shttps?:\/\/(www.)?youtu(be.com|.be)\/(watch\?v=)?/','httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=',$content);

This way only links that have a space before them would be turned into a lyte vid (but you’d have to add that space, always in order for lyte to pick that up).

It’s not a bug, as this working WP YouTube Lyte by default only works on httpv-links. I just provided you with some example code that can be used to extend the default behavior and there clearly is room for improvement in that “proof of concept”-code.

But anyway, as for your dilemma; you can do 3 things:

1. use wp youtube lyte as is, using httpv-links, which will indeed require you to stick to wp youtube lyte (or other plugins that support httpv)
2. use the wp youtube lyte API to extend the behavior, based on the example code I provided (it’s a question of tweaking the regular expression, nothing fancy really)
3. use another youtube-plugin (there are plenty), each with their own advantages and disadvantages off course.

hope this helps,
frank

For now this is not possible, but as I wrote earlier this can be accomplished by using the API. Actually the example code above only some small tweaks to do what you need it to do 🙂

ok, ok …

this seems to work; a youtube-link on a newline is parsed, others (link in a text, link in a href, …) are left alone;

/** force wp youtube lyte to act on normal youtube url's as well using lyte_content_preparse filter */
add_filter('lyte_content_preparse','lyte_force_nonhttpv',10,1);
function lyte_force_nonhttpv($content) {
        $content=preg_replace('/^https?:\/\/(www.)?youtu(be.com|.be)\/(watch\?v=)?/m','httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=',$content);
        return $content;
        }

You might want to test this thoroughly, I’ll add this update to lyte_helper in a next release. You can activate it by following the directions from above and then changing that code a bit to match what is here.