Title: [Plugin: Video Thumbnails] Overlay a play button
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Video Thumbnails] Overlay a play button

 *  Resolved [ayanyenb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ayanyenb/)
 * (@ayanyenb)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/overlay-a-play-button/)
 * I was wondering if there is any way to make video thumbnails with play button
   overlaying? Like [this one](http://krutayatema.ru/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/tema_preview48.jpg):
   
   Any ideas? Thanks

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 *  Plugin Author [Sutherland Boswell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sutherlandboswell/)
 * (@sutherlandboswell)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/overlay-a-play-button/#post-2244625)
 * I recommend using CSS to position a play button over the image, you can check
   out [this page](http://dailysesh.com/category/videos) to see how I’m using it.
 *  Thread Starter [ayanyenb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ayanyenb/)
 * (@ayanyenb)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/overlay-a-play-button/#post-2244641)
 * And how can I do that?
 *  Thread Starter [ayanyenb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ayanyenb/)
 * (@ayanyenb)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/overlay-a-play-button/#post-2244684)
 * Please help
 *  Plugin Author [Sutherland Boswell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sutherlandboswell/)
 * (@sutherlandboswell)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/overlay-a-play-button/#post-2244738)
 * The best I can do right now is point you in the direction of [this question on stack overflow](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/785458/how-to-place-an-image-over-another).
 *  [spreewelloff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spreewelloff/)
 * (@spreewelloff)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/overlay-a-play-button/#post-2244779)
 * Can you please explain how to alter the php so that the PLAY thumbnail is only
   overlayed on top of certain posts?
 * Thanks
 *  [cabaj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cabaj/)
 * (@cabaj)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/overlay-a-play-button/#post-2244872)
 * [@spreewelloff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spreewelloff/)
 * 1. Assign a “video” category to posts with embeded videos.
 * 2. Implement a way of using category slugs as css classes. There are a number
   of ways of doing this. Here is one example: [http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/09/06/using-wordpress-categories-to-style-posts/](http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/09/06/using-wordpress-categories-to-style-posts/)
 * 3. Style the video using your new css class.

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