Building a fake embed shortcode and then calling run_shortcode to do this makes no real sense. Try this instead: echo $wp_embed->shortcode(array(), $my_tour_video); Edit: Additionally, when I use your code on a test page, using that embed, I get no such error as you’re describing. If you can come up with a reproducible test case, then … Read more
Turns out the YouTube video in question had Embedding disabled by request. Tested with other YouTube videos with a ‘dash’ and they work fine (if embedding is not disabled).
Each YouTube video has 4 generated images. They are predictably formatted as follows http://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/0.jpg http://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/1.jpg http://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/2.jpg http://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/3.jpg The first one in the list is a full size image and others are thumbnail images. so if you have the video url the you can extract the video id from it call your image, and to do … Read more
Aha! WordPress has a built in function for it 😀 <?php echo $embed_code = wp_oembed_get( $video ); ?> Simples.
If you embed a vimeo video at that size it hides the playback buttons, no magic involved. EDIT- to display a static thumb of a youtube video: your video url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQO-aOdJLiw take the v= portion of the url to get the large thumb url: http://img.youtube.com/vi/WQO-aOdJLiw/0.jpg and the small thumb url: http://img.youtube.com/vi/WQO-aOdJLiw/1.jpg
Just use the </li> …
I think this is what you are looking for: <?php echo wp_oembed_get(‘https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZBCTc9zHtI’); ?> For more details check this documentation.
The Youtube playlist have a xml strema, RSS feed. You can parse this and create post via wp_insert_post() and add as content the URL to the video. Publish this and you have wich each new video from the playlist a new post. The best way is, that you write a custom plugin. But you can … Read more
Embed YouTube video on category description
Cannot embed YouTube video