Really nice plugin

One thing. In description of Thumbvie above you say “If you click on the title of the post or on the thumbnail image you enter the post page”

I can’t seem to get the thumbnail to link to the post. Any advice?

Cheers,
Austin.

My blog is at http://www.BaatSeBaat.com

Thanks

tehseen

I’ve managed to solve this in part using a mini loop and your guidance on where the appropriate function lay in the youtube.php file.

I also had to change the ‘Front Page’ section in ‘Options’ > ‘Reading’ back to the default ‘Front Page displays your latest posts’. From there I re-created the homepage template as home.php and everything seemed to work fine.

Again, many thanks for your help and a fantastic plug-in.

All the best,

Scott.

in youtube.php locate the function tp_filter_content then inside the code locate the condition that says

if ((is_home() || is_archive() || is_category()) && $options['is_thumb'])

inside this if condition is the display code in Homepage, Archive and Category pages in case ThumbView option is selected
The code here will display thumbnail images.
You can split this code by creating a sub condition for is_home() to create custom design for Homepage as follows

if ((is_home() || is_archive() || is_category()) && $options['is_thumb'])
if (is_home()) {
//write your code in here
} else {
// here u can keep my code
}

note that there’s another else later on in this function

} else {

//here comes the part where you display the video which means ThumbView is not selected or you are viewing a post.

Cheers,

Scott.

Many thanks for your response.

I follow what you are saying and had noticed that the ID etc were stored in the database. I had also had a quick look through the youtube.php file itself to see if I could get any clues as to how you were pulling in the thumbnails for the category pages. However, my PHP isn’t too hot which why I had asked if there was any neat little snippet or template tag from your plugin that I could use.

I had thought that a mini loop would do the trick but it was here I ran into the issue of how to hook into ID value and use that as part of the URL for the thumbnail:

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This may not be the way to go though. As I say, my knowledge of PHP isn’t great and I’m only using bits of code that I can follow from the Wordpress Codex.

I appreciate that I’m essentially trying to do something out-with the normal operation of your plugin, but if there is any help you can provide here I would be extremely grateful.

Best wishes,

Scott.

The static page is still part of the wordpress template which means that you can still use all wordpress functions to pull out data from your database.

The videos you import using my plugin will be stored in the database as normal posts you would write from the WP admin panel. If you go inside Manage > Posts and edit a post that contains video information you can see the pattern I use to store the information.
[ID]IbrUmPnL11Q[/ID] …etc

A solution would be to hook the_content() functions presented by WordPress. In which u can search for the THUMBNAIL tag and parse it in an html image tag.

I hope this helps you with your project..if you have other questions please let me know.

I’ve just discovered your fantastic plugin (BIG thanks for taking the time to put it together!).

I was wondering if you help me with the following:

I am building a site that will use your plugin and I would like to display the thumbnail for the latest video I have imported on the homepage. I want to create a ’static’ home page (under ‘Options’ > ‘Reading’ in the admin centre) using a template that I will create that will be different from the blog.

Is there a PHP snippet I can use or some way you can think of that will allow me to pull in a video thumbnail into this template page?

Many thanks,

Scott.

One more thing I thought about that would be nice. Could it be possible to import single youtube videos without having to import whole categories? Sometimes I come across something that I like and could see in my blog, but don’t want to add to my favorites.