bsetter

Ok so I figured it out…. It turns out that if I have the custom field defined in the plugin settings it overrides the plugin’s ability to search the post content for the video url.

What is happening with my site specifically is that I have a custom post type for my video portfolio that uses a custom field for my video URLs however for my site’s blog I am simply pasting in the vimeo embed code directly into the post content. My reasoning behind doing it this way is two fold, (1) I wanted videos on my blog to appear in RSS readers and (2) I wanted videos in my portfolio to appear with a very specific layout.

Not sure if you have any ideas for a better solution than each time I write a blog post having to go into the plugin settings to remove the defined custom field and then when I want to post a portfolio video having to go back into the plugin settings to redefine the custom field.

I wonder if you could have a check box on the write post page that asks “pull from custom field”. I’m even thinking it could be cool to extend the plugin a little further by having the ability to define multiple custom field values in the plugin settings so that then on the write post page in the dialogue box there would be a drop-down to able to choose what source to pull the video thumbnail from, that being post content, custom field A, custom field B, etc…. THAT WOULD BE SICK!

Thanks 🙂

For some reason the plugin just stopped being able to find vimeo thumbnails. Keeps saying “We didn’t find a video thumbnail for this post.”

Here’s my vimeo embed code:
<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/20249114?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe>

I’m running the latest version 1.8 of the plugin.

Thanks,

And…. here’s how I am displaying the custom post type yet the video thumbnail is not working. Thanks…

<?php $looptwo = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => 'video-portfolio', 'posts_per_page' => 4 ) ); ?>
<?php while ( $looptwo->have_posts() ) : $looptwo->the_post(); ?>

	<article>
		<div class="image">
			<a href="">
				<?php if( ( $video_thumbnail = get_video_thumbnail() ) != null ) :?>
					<img src="<?php video_thumbnail(); ?>" alt=""/>
				<? elseif(has_post_thumbnail()) : ?>
					<?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>
				<?php else :?>

				<?php endif;?>
			</a>
		</div><!-- end image -->
		<div class="description">
			<h3><a href=""><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
		</div><!-- end description -->
		<div class="clearfix"></div>
	</article>

<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php wp_reset_query(); ?>