vimeo/youtube video embed with thumbnails

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

WordPress 5.3.x YouTube oEmbed is not working

So apparently the issue also happens in WordPress 5.6 (the latest release as of writing), and YouTube is probably at fault because the (oEmbed) <link> tags are in the body instead of the head (see screenshot below), and that in turn causes the issue because WP_oEmbed::discover() looks for the <link> tags in the head only. … Read more

Youtube parameters within WordPress embed code?

It doesn’t look like load policies are configurable with WP’s auto-embed. But see the docs on how to use WP’s embedding: http://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds And see the Developer Resources and API at WP: http://developer.wordpress.com/docs/oembed-provider-api/ WP’s auto-embedding uses oEmbed, and the specs and API are here: http://oembed.com/