[Plugin: Video Thumbnails] Can't Find YouTube Thumbnails

Hi I have been struggling with this for hours. I found two “names” for my custom field:

In the source code it is name=”_tern_wp_youtube_video”
on the form it is Youtube ID:

I put the following code below and no thumbnails were found.

// Gets the post’s content
//my change
$video_key = ‘_tern_wp_youtube_video’;
$markup = get_post_meta($post_id, $video_key, true);
$new_thumbnail = null;

I added some code from another of your posts to clear the database and then removed it again when it did not work.

delete_post_meta($post_id, ‘_video_thumbnail’);

At one point I had your plugin installed and re-wrote all of my posts to have the URLs readable by your plugin but then I found a great plugin that will pull my Youtube Videos and post them for me using just the ID and puts the ID in a custom field.

I even at one point tried to get some code to fix the short URL ID but I am over my head. I am good with HTML and CSS… PHP I can only ocasionally add some text to something that is echo’ed. I don’t know the syntax.

Any help would be appreciated!!

I have never been happier to receive an email! YES it worked!!! I have one red x saying it can’t find the thumbnail, but when I go to the posts it is there… I can now move on to the things that were not working without thumbnails. I almost went back to hand coding each video so this is awesome!! Thank you so much!

Code is poetry… in the right hands!

I successfully implemented this on one site, and it’s still working, however when I used the same files to make this happen again on a new site, it’s now no longer working. This is still what I have:

$video_key = '_tern_wp_youtube_video';
$markup = 'http://youtube.com/watch?v=' . get_post_meta($post_id, $video_key, true);
$new_thumbnail = null;

is something wrong here?

I’m trying to get this to work as a conditional, ie. if the custom field isn’t empty, use the custom field, otherwise scan the content as is the default behavior in the plugin. Here’s what I’ve got so far:

$videourl = get_post_meta($post_id, 'videourl', true);
		if ( !empty( $videourl ) ) {
			$markup = $videourl;
		} else {
			$markup = $post_array->post_content;
			$markup = apply_filters('the_content',$markup);
		}

It’s still working for the custom field, but I can’t get it to pull thumbnails from the post content. Any thoughts?

I have been trying to get this to work with the plugin More Field (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/more-fields/).

I use this code to display a custom more field.
<?php echo(get_post_meta($post->ID, 'embed-code', true)); ?>

From reading above I thought the following would work, but it doesn’t.

$markup = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'embed-code', true);
$new_thumbnail = null;

Does anyone know what I’m doing wrong here?

Thanks 🙂

@brad2dabone

I actually just got it working with the following:

$video_key = 'embed-code';
$markup = get_post_meta($post_id, $video_key, true);
$new_thumbnail = null;

Thanks for the reply.

Does anyone know of a way I can search 1 custom field for a video ID and if no value is present check another. Using the code provided by Brad above I’ve got this far but youtube thumbnails still don’t work. I’m happy to pay someone for their expertise if this is a tricky thing to do.

// gets custom field data
$vimeoid = get_post_meta($post_id, 'vimeo_id', true);
if($vimeoid) {
	$markup = 'http://vimeo.com/'.get_post_meta($post_id, $vimeoid, true);
} else {
$youtubeid = get_post_meta($post_id, 'youtube_id', true);
if($youtubeid) {
	$markup = 'http://youtu.be/'.get_post_meta($post_id, $youtubeid, true);
}
}
$new_thumbnail = null;