Sutherland Boswell

Are you using Automatic YouTube Video Posts? If so, there’s an issue I’m working on solving.

Are you sure you aren’t using a plugin or theme that adds the “Video” metabox? Post formats have been around awhile (that screen shot is from 2011), but 3.6 was originally planned to include new special meta boxes that would only appear after you’ve selected certain post formats. This feature ended up being removed from 3.6 before it was released so the meta box your video is being stored in must be created by a different plugin or possibly your theme. Please open up a new thread and I’d be happy to help you figure out a solution.

If you’re comfortable with a little bit of coding you could write a little bit of code to find and store the thumbnail for your specific needs, but since it seems to be an unlikely situation it probably won’t have official support anytime soon.

But a basic idea of what you’d need to do is below.

function save_my_user_meta_video_thumbnail( $user_id ) {
	// Need to include the global var
	global $video_thumbnails;

	// Set what we're going to scan
	$markup = get_user_meta( $user_id, 'whatever_field', true )

	// Now scan  for a thumbnail
	foreach ( $video_thumbnails->providers as $key => $provider ) {
		$new_thumbnail = $provider->scan_for_thumbnail( $markup );
		if ( $new_thumbnail != null ) break;
	}

	// Save thumbnail URL to user meta if we've found one
	if ( $new_thumbnail != null ) {
		update_user_meta( $user_id, 'user_video_thumbnail', $new_thumbnail )
	}
}

add_action( 'profile_update', 'save_my_user_meta_video_thumbnail', 50, 1 );

Oops! Should be alt="' . addslashes( get_the_title() ) . '" because without get_ it will try to echo the title instead of just insert it into what is already being echoed.

Just tested with YARPP but using Twenty Twelve and had no problems displaying thumbnails. Be sure YARPP is set to use the thumbnails mode and that Video Thumbnails is set to automatically set featured images.

Just released an update (2.0.5) which should now detect Blip URLs in addition to embed codes.

Just released version 2.0.4 which includes this fix.

Just realized this github issue is you, glad to hear you’ve figured it out.