pushlabs

Hey winterstreet,

You are correct. in 2.5.8 video backgrounds on mobile were all supposed to revert to fallback, however, some devices displayed them as our code could not detect all video backgrounds on mobiles.

Our new release does a pretty good job at catching all mobiles and displays the fallback. We changed over for consistency purposes, as the intended effect was not occurring on all devices, however, if you like that functionality, you can downgrade to one of these versions here: https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/video-background/tags/

Blake

Hi jfpyle,

You would use the same code posted above, however, change the “container” property in the shortcode.

Hi Cuniomk,

Thanks for using Video Background!

Thanks for bringing this to attention. I didn’t realize people may use Video Background for this functionality. I’ve send an update, 2.6.3, that addresses this.

This will resolve the issue with fallback images when no video links are supplied.

Please let me know how it works for you!

Blake

The issue is fixed in the 2.6.1 update. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Please see this thread for more details:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/temporary-solution-do-not-ugrade/

Blake

The issue is fixed in the 2.6.1 update. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Please see this thread for more details:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/temporary-solution-do-not-ugrade/

Blake

Hi Winterstreet,

Thanks for using Video Background!

There was an issue in Safari on High Sierra and IOS 11. Video Background 2.6 fixes those compatibility issues.

Blake

Hi luukkeee,

There is no way to display the Video Background metabox on the category pages. However, if you’d like a video background on a category archive page on the frontend you can use this function:

/**
 * Conditional Video Background Pro shortcode on category pages
 * @author Push Labs
 * @version 0.26.17
 */
function vidbgpro_category_shortcode() {
  /**
   * This conditional statement checks if the current page
   * is an archive and category page. If it is not, quit.
   */
  if ( ! is_archive() && ! is_category() ) {
    return;
  }
  
  // Create our shortcode
  $shortcode = '[vidbg container=”body” mp4=”#” webm=”#” poster=”#” muted=”true” loop=”true” overlay=”false” overlay_color=”#000″ overlay_alpha=”0.3″]';
  
  // activate our shortcude using the do_shortcode() function
  echo do_shortcode( $shortcode );
}
add_action( 'wp_footer', 'vidbgpro_category_shortcode' );

Adding this to the functions.php page will execute that shortcode when on a category archive page. Additionally, you can show different videos on different categories if you’d like with a conditional is_category(). You can learn more about this function here: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/is_category/

Blake