Title: Simply Featured Video – Featured video support for WordPress
Author: zwwuu
Published: <strong>August 19, 2022</strong>
Last modified: December 3, 2022

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Simply Featured Video – Featured video support for WordPress

 By [zwwuu](https://profiles.wordpress.org/zwwuu/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/simply-featured-video.1.3.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-featured-video/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-featured-video/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-featured-video/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-featured-video/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simply-featured-video/)

## Description

Simply Featured Video is a featured video plugin that allows you to import video
from media library or third party video platform into your WordPress post and embeds
the video automatically.

The featured video can be place anywhere in your post content where you want the
video to be displayed.

**Classic editor not supported**

**Features**

 * WordPress featured video
 * Support media library and third party video platform
 * Embed video automatically
 * Block editor support

**Theme compatibility**

Simply Featured Video is compatible with any WP theme that follows the coding standards.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Enabling post type support for featured video in the plugin settings.
 * [[
 * Using YouTube video as featured video.
 * [[
 * Using video from media library as featured video.
 * [[
 * Viewing a post with YouTube video as featured video.
 * [[
 * Viewing a post with video from media library as featured video.

## Installation

 1. Upload the plugin files to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory, or install the
    plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly;
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress;
 3. Config the plugin in the Simply Featured Video screen.
 4. Add featured video to your post.
 5. Place `<?php sfv_the_post_video(); ?>` to your theme’s post template file.

## FAQ

### Will this plugin work with classic editor?

Currently there is no support for classic editor.

### Why is there no featured video box for [xyz] post type?

You need to go to the Simply Featured Video setting page and check the post type
that you need featured video support.

### What PHP functions can I use?

sfv_get_post_video_source( $post )
 sfv_has_post_video( $post ) sfv_get_post_video_id(
$post ) sfv_the_post_video( $attr ) sfv_get_the_post_video( $post, $attr ) sfv_the_post_video_url(
$post ) sfv_get_the_post_video_url( $post ) sfv_the_post_video_caption( $post ) 
sfv_get_the_post_video_caption( $post )

All parameters are optional. If no $post is given the current post’s ID will be 
used.
 $attr is either a string or an array representing HTML element attributes,
e.g. array(‘loop’=> true).

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Simply Featured Video – Featured video support for WordPress” is open source software.
The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ zwwuu ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/zwwuu/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simply-featured-video/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/simply-featured-video/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/simply-featured-video/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/simply-featured-video/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.3.0

Fix video not loading when using local media

#### 1.2.0

Bumped the “Tested up to” tag to WP 6.1
 Bumped SDK version

#### 1.1.0

Fix error on plugin deactivate.
 Add instructions in setting page.

#### 1.0.0

Initial release.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.3.0**
 *  Last updated **3 years ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.8 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.1.10**
 * Tags
 * [featured video](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/featured-video/)[video](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/video/)
   [video embed](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/video-embed/)[video plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/video-plugin/)
   [youtube](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/youtube/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-featured-video/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ zwwuu ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/zwwuu/)

## Support

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