Title: Oren's Youtube Thumbnailer
Author: Oren Yomtov
Published: <strong>August 22, 2009</strong>
Last modified: February 25, 2020

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
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# Oren's Youtube Thumbnailer

 By [Oren Yomtov](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ornani/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/youtube-thumbnailer.zip)

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

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/youtube-thumbnailer/)

## Description

**1.1.1:**
 Enhanced video detection.

 This plugin runs through the posts in your blog and if it finds a YouTube video
embedded in a post it sets the thumbnail to be the videos thumbnail.

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## Installation

 1. Upload the `youtube-thumbnailer` directory to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Visit the plugins page by clicking the `Use` link in the plugins description or
    from the `Tools` admin panel.

That’s it, now you can start adding your own buttons.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Oren's Youtube Thumbnailer” is open source software. The following people have 
contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Oren Yomtov ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ornani/)

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### Interested in development?

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

## Changelog

#### 1.1.1

*Enhanced video detection.

#### 1.1

*Auto thumbnailing bug fixed.
 *Better video detection.

#### 1

*Now this plugin actually works for regular youtube embedding.

#### 0.9

*First release.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1.1**
 *  Last updated **6 years ago**
 *  Active installations **30+**
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/youtube-thumbnailer/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Oren Yomtov ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ornani/)

## Support

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