Sutherland Boswell

Vimeo’s Simple API is for public data only. Maybe one day their advanced API could be used instead if a user enters authentication details.

I’ve suggested similar fixes for plugins that only store the video ID in a custom field, but the problem is knowing it’s only the ID and what service it belongs to. It looks like I could add if (function_exists('WP_ayvpp_init')) and then run the code specific to AYVP.

Can you be more specific about what happens when you use that code?

When I started this plugin I wasn’t very familiar with WordPress, but since then I’ve learned a lot. WordPress has an HTTP API with a handy function named wp_remote_get that I’m planning on using in place of cURL. This should make the plugin more friendly with more server setups because the function tries multiple PHP methods for making the HTTP request.

I’m working on version 2.0 which includes some major code reorganization that will make adding new video sites much easier. If you sign up to test the beta there’s a better chance I’ll add support for those sites!

Typically I recommend letting WordPress do the resizing work for you with their built-in post thumbnail function (which Video Thumbnails takes advantage of), but it will only size images down. TimThumb is where you want to look if you’d like to size images up.

This is something I’d really like to do – and it is supposed to work as you described. The problem I’ve found is that the_content filter doesn’t seem to reliably use oEmbed. There’s a thread here that discusses the issue, and I remember doing a little testing and finding that if I run any query before using get_post that it would use oEmbed. I think get_post should be replaced because of this weird behavior.

As for embedding using other plugins, the_content should be inserting the embed code, so they shouldn’t actually require their own regex.

I’ve done a little work on version 2.0, which uses classes to better organize functionality and will really help make it easier to maintain and include support for more sites. It needs testing, so anyone interested can sign up here.

I think I may have a fix, would you mind testing it out for me? Open up the plugin and find this block of code:

add_action( 'new_to_publish', 'save_video_thumbnail', 10, 1 );
add_action( 'draft_to_publish', 'save_video_thumbnail', 10, 1 );
add_action( 'pending_to_publish', 'save_video_thumbnail', 10, 1 );
add_action( 'future_to_publish', 'save_video_thumbnail', 10, 1 );

and add this line to the end:

add_action( 'xmlrpc_publish_post', 'get_video_thumbnail', 10, 1 );