Cannot retrieve duration field in Elementors Loop Grid posts

  • Resolved Elise

    (@eliseja)


    2 weeks ago

    Hi,

    I need to access the “duration / _duration” field in my listing of videos for my media archive of yoga and meditations videos using Elementors Loop Grid widget. I use the “Post Info” widget (have tried with text/title) and “Post Custom Field” to access duration or _duration to get this to show. Duration is available on the single post so the plugin has pulled the data during import. I have tried with shortcode etc – but am not able to get any output. Please advice: I am using the Astra Theme, and have a pro version of Elementor and Vimeotheque.

    Thanks, Elise

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  • Plugin Author CodeFlavors

    (@codeflavors)

    1 week, 6 days ago

    Hi Elise,

    Thank you for the detailed description, it helped us understand the issue.

    Elementor’s Post Info and Post Custom Field widgets can’t show the duration. Vimeotheque doesn’t save it as a separate custom field. It’s stored together with the other video details in a single entry that those widgets can’t read.

    To solve this, we’ve added a dedicated widget to Vimeotheque for Elementor, starting with version 1.0.4.

    1. Update the add-on

    WordPress checks for plugin updates only every few hours, so the update may not show up yet. To check right away:

    1. Go to Dashboard → Updates in your WordPress admin.
    2. Click the Check again button at the top of the page.
    3. Vimeotheque for Elementor 1.0.4 should now appear in the Plugins list on that page. Select it and click Update Plugins. You can also update it from the Plugins page, where you’ll see an “update now” link under the add-on.

    Updates are delivered only when your license key is entered in the Vimeotheque PRO settings. If the update still doesn’t show after clicking “Check again”, please make sure your license key is saved there, then try again.

    1. Add the duration to your Loop Grid
    2. Edit the Loop Item template used by your Loop Grid (Templates → Theme Builder → Loop Item).
    3. Search for “Vimeotheque Video Duration” in the widgets panel and drag it where you want the duration to show. You can remove the Post Info / Post Custom Field widgets you used for this.
    4. Save the template.

    The widget shows the duration of each video in the loop, for example 03:44 or 1:05:03 for videos longer than an hour. It also works in archive templates and on single video pages. In the widget settings you can:

    • add text before or after the duration (for example “Duration: ” or ” min”)
    • choose the HTML tag and alignment
    • set the text color and typography

    In the Elementor editor, the widget may show a placeholder (00:00:00) when the preview isn’t a video post. On the live site, it shows the real duration of each video.

    With this, you won’t need to add the durations manually in your Vimeo tags anymore.

    If anything doesn’t work as expected, just let us know.

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