Title: Error / WP 3.8.1
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Error / WP 3.8.1

 *  Resolved [geoffreyweglarz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geoffreyweglarz/)
 * (@geoffreyweglarz)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-wp-381/)
 * Error with Vimeo Link
 * [https://vimeo.com/55547171](https://vimeo.com/55547171)
 * _[ Moderator note: please wrap code in [backticks or use the code button](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Posting_Code).]_
 *     ```
       Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: Entity: line 1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found in /data/9/0/148/7/637496/user/650156/htdocs/fluid-productions.net/home/wp-content/plugins/video-thumbnails/php/providers/class-vimeo-thumbnails.php on line 94
   
       Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: 403 Forbidden in /data/9/0/148/7/637496/user/650156/htdocs/fluid-productions.net/home/wp-content/plugins/video-thumbnails/php/providers/class-vimeo-thumbnails.php on line 94
   
       Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: ^ in /data/9/0/148/7/637496/user/650156/htdocs/fluid-productions.net/home/wp-content/plugins/video-thumbnails/php/providers/class-vimeo-thumbnails.php on line 94
   
       Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'String could not be parsed as XML' in /data/9/0/148/7/637496/user/650156/htdocs/fluid-productions.net/home/wp-content/plugins/video-thumbnails/php/providers/class-vimeo-thumbnails.php:94 Stack trace: #0 /data/9/0/148/7/637496/user/650156/htdocs/fluid-productions.net/home/wp-content/plugins/video-thumbnails/php/providers/class-vimeo-thumbnails.php(94): SimpleXMLElement->__construct('403 Forbidden') #1 /data/9/0/148/7/637496/user/650156/htdocs/fluid-productions.net/home/wp-content/plugins/video-thumbnails/video-thumbnails.php(203): Vimeo_Thumbnails->get_thumbnail_url('55547171') #2 /data/9/0/148/7/637496/user/650156/htdocs/fluid-productions.net/home/wp-content/plugins/video-thumbnails/video-thumbnails.php(239): Video_Thumbnails->get_first_thumbnail_url(' http://vimeo....') #3 /data/9/0/148/7/637496/user/650156/htdocs/fluid-productions.net/home/wp-content/plugins/video-thumbnails/video-thumbnails.php(483): Video_Thumbnails->get_video_thumbnail(14) #4 /data/9/0/148/7/ in /data/9/0/148/7/637496/user/650156/htdocs/fluid-productions.net/home/wp-content/plugins/video-thumbnails/php/providers/class-vimeo-thumbnails.php on line 94
       ```
   
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/video-thumbnails/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/video-thumbnails/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Sutherland Boswell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sutherlandboswell/)
 * (@sutherlandboswell)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-wp-381/#post-4546568)
 * The video you’ve linked has embedding restrictions, which means the oEmbed method
   used to retrieve the thumbnail is creating the error. An easy fix (without having
   to enable embedding on all websites) is to go to the provider settings and follow
   the instructions to register an app with Vimeo and enter the API key info.
 * Thanks for pointing out the issue, it should give some user-friendly information
   in the error message. I’ll be sure to fix that in a future version!

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-wp-381/#post-4546568)
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