Video hidden in the excerpt

Hello LightBen,

Hope you’re well and happy new year! 🙂

Thanks for linking me the theme you are using but I want you to be aware that bumping your thread will not get it to be noticed. Read more about it here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#No_Bumping.

Option 1:

Instead of adding your video to your post excerpt or in the list of posts. I suggest you take a screenshot of the video then set it as featured image. In this way no code modification is required.

Option 2:

Override index.php(if you are planning to put this on homepage – recent posts type of page ). Use child themes for any customization you will made. Read more about it here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes. To override the index.php just simply create a new file inside the child theme folder and named it index.php ( same process for every file you want to override in the future ) then paste the code you will find here: https://gist.github.com/calvincanas/68fd179e35022d11a6fc

Let me know if it works!

Take care,
Calvin

Hello LightBen,

Hope you’re well! 🙂

On Option 2:

You can just create a template that you can select when you create the page. The reason that I include all code for your need on one file is that the other way would need a lot of file modification.

When you said filter I assume you are referring to the WordPress function add_filter which I also considered regarding with this issue. Yes, it would be a lot cleaner than my solution because it simply enables shortcode on excerpt but the problem with this setup is that if you embed the youtube video on the middle or end of your post body it will not render the video because excerpt limit the character they show on a post list ( I think 25 – 50 characters ) .

I hope I am making sense here. Let me know if you still need help or clarification.

Take care,
Calvin