Sutherland Boswell

Video Thumbnails does support Dailymotion, but as the name says it only creates the thumbnails.

The theme you are using is what does not support Dailymotion, because when you look at the video’s HTML you can see /wp-content/themes/theme1765/ which means your theme is doing the embedding.

<iframe width="700" height="410" src="http://www.pars-tv.com/wp-content/themes/theme1765/flash/video.swf?width=800&height=600&colorTheme=black&fileVideo=http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x161kp3_sami-yusuf-and-babak_music" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Video Thumbnails is now working properly, even for the “Dailymotion Test” post.

Video Thumbnails does not embed videos, so if the video itself is not showing up you will need to contact the developer of your theme or your embedding plugin.

The place you are entering videos is a custom field named “post_video”, I’ve entered this in the settings and everything seems to work fine.

As I expected, the name of the custom field was entered in the settings incorrectly. The correct name is “tz_video_embed” and everything seems to work fine now. I hope you’ll leave a review!

You’ll need to make sure you have the name of that custom field entered in the Video Thumbnails settings. If you don’t know how to find the name of the field, you’ll need to contact your theme’s author and ask them.

Google Drive requires the use of an API key, so you’ll need to go to the providers section of the setting page and follow the directions for entering a Google API key. It’s easy and free and should solve your problem!

You can try increasing the timeout value for Vine by changing this line in video-thumbnails/php/providers/class-vine-thumbnails.php

$response = wp_remote_get( $request, array( 'sslverify' => false ) );

to

$response = wp_remote_get( $request, array( 'sslverify' => false, 'timeout' => 120 ) );

The video you’ve linked has embedding restrictions, which means the oEmbed method used to retrieve the thumbnail is creating the error. An easy fix (without having to enable embedding on all websites) is to go to the provider settings and follow the instructions to register an app with Vimeo and enter the API key info.

Thanks for pointing out the issue, it should give some user-friendly information in the error message. I’ll be sure to fix that in a future version!