I think I just realized the cause of the issue in this thread. Do you have “Automatically publish posts” set to “no” in the AYVP settings?
The latest version (2.5.2) was intended to fix a problem that prevented finding video thumbnails until a post was manually rescanned or published. So now the opposite is true, and it will find a thumbnail when it is automatically published but not when you manually publish or rescan. I just have to combine the code from both versions and it should work for everyone, look for a fix sometime today!
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Luke
(@danceyrselfclean_admin)
Ive got mine set to yes for automatically publishing posts. However I am also using another plugin “Auto-Schedule Posts” to randomly publish posts.
Auto-Schedule Posts must be having the same effect, so combining the old fix and the new fix will hopefully solve it.
Thread Starter
Luke
(@danceyrselfclean_admin)
Ok awesome, I look forward to the next update then.
Just released version 2.5.3, let me know if it fixes your issue!
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Luke
(@danceyrselfclean_admin)
Images are now being picked up however they are a lot smaller than they were previously. Instead of being 1280 × 720 they are now 480 × 360
This probably has something to do with the individual videos, could you post an example of one that has the smaller thumbnail?
YouTube doesn’t always provide HD thumbnails, so the function that gets YouTube thumbnails looks for an HD one first then falls back to SD.
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Luke
(@danceyrselfclean_admin)
On my homepage you can see the recent ones are using the small image.
http://www.ouestladiscotheque.com
Here is an example of a recent post using the small image:
http://www.ouestladiscotheque.com/seoul-stay-with-us/
And this one is older and uses a larger image. 2.4.2 was installed when this one was published. http://www.ouestladiscotheque.com/thundercat-for-love-i-come-lapalux-flip/
Just tested the same channel with auto publishing enabled and disabled and didn’t have any issues getting the HD thumbnails, so it’s possible there’s something funny going on with your server. If you paste one of the YouTube URLs into the markup test on the debugging tab in the settings, do you get the big or small one?
I don’t think it’s related to any recent updates because the function that converts YouTube IDs into thumbnails URLs hasn’t changed since version 2.0.6.
