Title: Vevo thumbnails.
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Vevo thumbnails.

 *  Resolved [coleh3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coleh3/)
 * (@coleh3)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/vevo-thumbnails/)
 * Great plugin!
 * Are Vevo videos suppose to generate thumbnails?
 * We use alot of them and I know YouTube works but wanted to know if there was 
   a way to populate Vevo thumbnails from featured videos?
 * Thank you.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/video-thumbnails/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/video-thumbnails/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Sutherland Boswell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sutherlandboswell/)
 * (@sutherlandboswell)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/vevo-thumbnails/#post-4916129)
 * If it’s a Vevo video on YouTube it will work, but not a video directly from the
   Vevo website. As far as I can tell there is no API to retrieve information for
   videos on the Vevo.com website.
 *  Thread Starter [coleh3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coleh3/)
 * (@coleh3)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/vevo-thumbnails/#post-4916134)
 * Thanks for the quick response.
 * I just did another test by pasting a YouTube url of the Vevo video and not directly
   from Vevo. The featured video works but it still doesn’t generate a thumbnail.
 * I’ve had no problems with regular YouTube videos but any YouTube Vevo videos 
   don’t seem to populate the thumbnail. Am I suppose to be pasting the embedd code
   or should the straight YouTube link work?
 * Thanks again for your quick support.
 *  Plugin Author [Sutherland Boswell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sutherlandboswell/)
 * (@sutherlandboswell)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/vevo-thumbnails/#post-4916143)
 * Embed code or link should both work fine, try them in the debugging tab on the
   settings page. What’s the code you’re using?
 *  Thread Starter [coleh3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coleh3/)
 * (@coleh3)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/vevo-thumbnails/#post-4916146)
 * When I use debug tab it shows the thumbnail for both embedd code and url.
 * I am using the WordPress Featured Video plugin where it generates the thumbnail
   usually straight from that video with your plugin.
 * Does it only generate a VEVO thumbnail if the video is embedded within the post
   or should it normally be able to read it off the Featured Video plugin like it
   does for other YouTube videos?
 * Thanks again for your help.
 *  Plugin Author [Sutherland Boswell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sutherlandboswell/)
 * (@sutherlandboswell)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/vevo-thumbnails/#post-4916248)
 * Video Thumbnails doesn’t differentiate between videos posted on YouTube, so the
   other plugin you’re using might be doing something special for ones uploaded 
   by Vevo if other YouTube videos are working.
 *  Thread Starter [coleh3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coleh3/)
 * (@coleh3)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/vevo-thumbnails/#post-4916250)
 * Thanks for the response
    I found a workaround. If I just post the youtube link
   in the blog content section it will make the video thumbnail. I can then just
   manually select that thumbnail with the media library as the featured image and
   put the youtube url in featured video field.
 * Thanks again!
 *  Plugin Author [Sutherland Boswell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sutherlandboswell/)
 * (@sutherlandboswell)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/vevo-thumbnails/#post-4916252)
 * The other plugin is probably storing the video in a custom field, so if you go
   to the settings page for Video Thumbnails and click the “Automatically detect”
   button for the custom field setting, it might solve your problem.

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