Sutherland Boswell

Try entering single_format_video in the custom field section of the Video Thumbnail settings.

As of right now file names are uploaded as the file name received from the video source. The thumbnails currently retrieved from youtube are named 0.jpg, but WordPress automatically handles duplicate files names by appending a number that results in file names like 01.jpg, 02.jpg, 03.jpg, etc.

These aren’t attractive file names, but a fix is in the works that uses better file names, but not sure when that will be delivered.

As for the conflict, it’s likely there’s a problem with the “Special Recent Posts” plugin because there’s no reason it should be confusing file names since WordPress automatically makes them unique.

Is it still just saying “We didn’t find a video thumbnail for this post. (be sure you have saved changes first)”, or have you gotten any more detailed error messages?

That should work, they only need to be public when scanned.

It looks to be a premium plugin, so I can’t provide support for it. I can’t view the video in your sample shortcode though, are you trying to use videos that are private?

In the settings of the plugin select your custom post type and set the custom field to ‘youtubecode’.

Since you’re only storing the YouTube ID in that field, you’ll have to modify the plugin to know it’s for YouTube. Change this:

if ( $video_key = get_option( 'video_thumbnails_custom_field' ) ) {
	$markup = get_post_meta( $post_id, $video_key, true );
} else {

to

if ( $video_key = get_option( 'video_thumbnails_custom_field' ) ) {
	$markup = 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=' . get_post_meta( $post_id, $video_key, true );
} else {