the link to the youtube video needs to have &feature=related at the end of it, or &feature=share ..etc.
hi frumph, could you be more specific, caz i am not an experienced user,
what should i do step by step
Thanks for ur answer
that site will have lots of traffic, so when someone shares the page i want him to be able to share it with the right thumbnail
.. it means when you type in the youtube link, you make sure the &feature=share (or related) is at the end of it
that didnt help, i added what u told me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AGBix7EwVE&feature=share
then got the link for embed one,
put it here
http://stunnerz.gr/starxidiamol/
and when i go to share it with the facebook share button,
it shows only 1 image and not the one i want :<
So you’re just putting it into a URL line and having WordPress create the player, yeah? .. Then the issue is really with the player oembed that WordPress is outputting ;/
You can grab the actual thumbnail from the youtube site like this:
http://img.youtube.com/vi/1AGBix7EwVE/1.jpg
^ the img. /vi/ is different then the 1.jpg can be 1.jpg or 2.jpg or 3.jpg
You could do this ;/
add_action('wp_head', 'opengraph_make_thumbnail_for_youtube');
function opengraph_make_thumbnail_for_youtube() {
global $post;
if ($post) {
$pattern = '/(?:youtube\.com\/(?:[^\/]+\/[^\/]+\/|(?:v|e(?:mbed)?)\/|[^#]*[?&]v=)|youtu\.be\/)([^"&?\/ ]{11})/i';
preg_match($pattern, $post->post_content, $matches);
$found_id = (isset($matches[1])) ? $matches[1] : false;
if ($found_id) echo '<meta property="og:image" content="http://img.youtube.com/vi/'.$found_id.'/1.jpg" />'."\r\n";
}
}
This is untested and written from memory, but what it’s concept is you can filter the post_content of the current post and have it as an action that ads the og:image for the thumbnail be placed into the wp_head of your site
You would add this to your functions.php file
EDIT: Better regex pattern
tested -> works, only works for the first one found, can be adjusted with preg_match_all to find all of the occurrences then you just loop the $matches[1] array to echo out all found
Or you could avoid all that and try this plugin out: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook-and-digg-thumbnail-generator/
I did solve this.. just toss that code I put in the box above into your functions.php file
what actually worked is,
i installed ur plugin that u told me
then i went to test if the share works, but it didnt
then i put each link to debugger and tried to test again and wualla
it worked…
thanks m8
