If you want to embed the Youtube movies straight in your post content, FancyBox will not do anything… But if you use a LINK to the Youtube page with class=”fancybox-swf”, then FancyBox will show that movie in an overlay window. Wrapped inside the link you can place either text or a thumbnail image of the movie but – again – it won’t work on embedded movies.
The latest version of Easy FancyBox will auto-detect links to youtube but they HAVE to be in a normal working format like
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybTg7VmC55E">...your link text or thumbnail image here...</a>
Clicking the link will open a FancyBox overlay with the movie (not the whole Youtube page) in the viewport.
As far as I understand, the Smart Youtube plugin does a completely different job, embedding the movie straight in your page. If you want to switch from embedded movies to overlay movies, you can do two things:
1. Manually go through all your pages to change the adapted URL’s to proper links, or…
2. (let someone) write a small plugin that automates that process to replace Smart Youtube…
…and then let Easy FancyBox take it from there 🙂
I’m having a similar issue, but Easy Fancybox is not recognizing my video link. However, when I add class “fancybox” to my video link, it works but only loads the “loading” gif and doesn’t ever load the actual video. Any ideas?
<a class="fancybox" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md0BFO3ACds"><img src="<?php bloginfo(template_directory) ;?>/img/feature/feature-1vid.jpg" /></a>
Gaberosser, do not use class="fancybox" for video links (it is reserved for normal image or inline content) but use class="fancybox-youtube" for Youtube links.
The fact that Easy Fancybox does not automatically recognize the link, can be caused by several things. Do you have a link for me so I can take a look?
I added class="fancybox-youtube" to the video link, but still no luck. Easy Fancybox is automatically working for the “About” page photo, just not in the hard-coded link on the homepage. Could this be the issue? Just not sure…
Here’s the link:
http://allanscottband.com
Gabe, two things:
1. Enable the Youtube feature under Settings > Media > FancyBox and then
2. Either let it autodetect (check that option) youtube links or use class=”fancybox-youtube” not id=”fancybox-youtube”…
Thanks RavanH! I didn’t even see the settings there. However, there’s still something missing. It initiates, but never loads the video. Any ideas?
You need to remove the line
<script src="http://www.nimbitmusic.com/nrp/includes/javascript/jquery.js"></script>
that is part of the Email Signup form (is that a widget?) because the jQuery library already gets loaded in the page header. Loading it twice is asking for trouble.
AHH! Thank you @ravanh!
Yeah, that was copied over by client. Didn’t even see that jquery was loaded there. Good eye, good eye!
Works now. 🙂
Hi
Thanks for these tips! I wonder how I can get the white border around the YouTube clips? It’s on the images but not on the clips…
Thanks for your time!
riis, to get a border around youtube movies too, set the option ‘border’ on Settings > Media > FancyBox > YouTube to a value other than 0. Make it 10 to match the default for images.
Ah… I should have seen that!
Thanks!
