Sutherland Boswell
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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Video Thumbnails] [Plugin: Video Thumbnails] theme based errorsJudging from the error message you received for Vimeo it sounds like cURL (the PHP service that communicates with the API and grabs the image) isn’t working. I’m not sure why it wouldn’t work with one specific theme.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Video Thumbnails] [Plugin: Video Thumbnails] Smush it Conflict?Hmm, I just tested grabbing a thumbnail with Smush It enabled and didn’t have any problems, so I don’t think this is what would be causing the issue.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Video Thumbnails] [Plugin: Video Thumbnails] Cannot activateThe plugin currently requires cURL to be enabled on your server and performs a check when activating. If cURL isn’t enabled it will deactivate itself when you try activating, but it should give you an error message telling you to enable cURL.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Video Thumbnails] [Plugin: Video Thumbnails] Add other video sitesMpora is in the beta being tested, and Facebook will be in the next beta I send out.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Video Thumbnails] [Plugin: Video Thumbnails] Cannot activateDoes it give you an error when trying to activate?
Right after this section:
// Simple Video Embedder Compatibility if ( function_exists( 'p75HasVideo' ) ) { if ( p75HasVideo( $post_id ) ) { $markup = p75GetVideo( $post_id ); } }try adding:
// AYVPP Mod if (function_exists('WP_ayvpp_init')) { $video_key = '_tern_wp_youtube_video'; $markup = 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=' . get_post_meta( $post_id, $video_key, true); }As a side note, version 2.0 will pull HD thumbnails from YouTube when they’re available. You can sign up to try out the beta here.
This plugin is focused on videos (as the name implies), and as I’ve said before I can’t justify developing a whole new plugin at the moment. I’d suggest working with the developer of Auto Post Thumbnails or a similar plugin to share your issues, the might be willing to fix your problems!
Not sure if I’m going to release this as 1.8.2 because I’m pretty close to sending the first version of the 2.0 beta to anyone who has signed up to test it. It does include your changes except for Funnie.biz. Since it’s not a video site it doesn’t really fit into the scope of the plugin, but when you see 2.0 you’ll see how easy it will be to include support when needed.
Thanks!
Haven’t tested it yet, but the code for this is now waiting in version 2.0.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Video Thumbnails in RSSHere’s a tweak to include featured images in your RSS feed which should fix your problem!
Here’s a tweak to include featured images in your RSS feed. This will probably fix your problem if you import to Facebook via RSS.
Yeah, this is something mentioned in the FAQ because YouTube has seemed to slack on changing their thumbnail format. The maxresdefault.jpg must be a new addition, but I think there could be a check for it like you suggested, thanks for the discovery!
As a side note, even if you look at YouTube.com’s source you can see that they’re just clipping the 4:3 images to 16:9. This is basically what I do to all thumbnails on my sites.
When WordPress resizes images it will only size them down to avoid unwanted pixelated images. You’ll need to adjust your theme’s HTML/CSS to force the images to stretch to that size, because the thumbnails the plugin retrieves are limited to the size the video site provides.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Video Thumbnails] [Plugin: Video Thumbnails] Add other video sitesLooks like MPORA does have a standard URL for thumbnails. I think MPORA support can be added by 2.0, but not sure about the others yet.