Title: Get Thumbs by URL? without shortcode?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Get Thumbs by URL? without shortcode?

 *  Resolved [JeroenNLD](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeroennld/)
 * (@jeroennld)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-thumbs-by-url-without-shortcode/)
 * Hello
    Is it possible to use the thumbnail function without shortcodes. So i 
   mean just the youtube or vimeo or etc. URL in the post is enough to get the thumbnails
   in a post. Is it possible to style the lightbox with custom CSS. I use genesis,
   does this plugin work with that framework? By the way this is a great plugin,
   I donated some time ago.
 * Kind regards,
 * Jeroen
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-responsive-video-embedder/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-responsive-video-embedder/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Nico](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nico23/)
 * (@nico23)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-thumbs-by-url-without-shortcode/#post-4723398)
 * Yes, displayed as a thumbnail inside the post not set as WordPress post thumbnail.
 * Yes. Never done it but this plugin uses Query Colorbox for the lightbox and that
   comes already with themes (I like #3 best). So I see no reason why custom CSS
   should not work.
 * Yes of course.
 * Thanks for donating, I appreciate that.
 *  Thread Starter [JeroenNLD](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeroennld/)
 * (@jeroennld)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-thumbs-by-url-without-shortcode/#post-4723507)
 * Thanks for the fast response.
    This is great. It was the jetpack shortcode generator
   that was causing the problem, I switched it of. I missed it, you described it
   in the readme text.
 * Is it possible to make a close button/function on the lightbox to return to the
   website? I’m trying to learn to code a little bit so maybe I can ad something
   in the future
 * Where is the CSS for the lightbox to be found?
 * Kind regards,
 * Jeroen
 *  Plugin Author [Nico](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nico23/)
 * (@nico23)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-thumbs-by-url-without-shortcode/#post-4723509)
 * There is already a close button on the lightbox. For theme #3 its sometimes overlayed
   by the video when the provider serves the flash with something other then wmode
   =transparent.
 * I do not know where the CSS file in the Colorbox plugin is. But instead of asking
   you should better go learn how to locate where the CSS comes from trough your
   browsers inspector or by simply looking inside the Colorbox plugin (no offence).
   In case your intend is to modify the CSS file directly I would strongly advice
   you not to do so. Instead you should use Jetpack’s custom CSS plugin to include
   you own CSS and overwrite styles of Colorbox.
 *  Thread Starter [JeroenNLD](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeroennld/)
 * (@jeroennld)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-thumbs-by-url-without-shortcode/#post-4723535)
 * non taken 🙂 Thanks for the information
    This works great
 * Kind regards,
 * Jeroen

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 * [no shortcode](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/no-shortcode/)
 * [thumbnails](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/thumbnails/)

 * 4 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [JeroenNLD](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeroennld/)
 * Last activity: [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-thumbs-by-url-without-shortcode/#post-4723535)
 * Status: resolved