WordPress 3.6 Video shortcodes in template
From the looks of it, you aren’t echo-ing the do_shortcode function, which you should. Try this: <?php echo do_shortcode(”); ?>
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Problem with JWplayer. Video is missing?
When you work with jwplayer you need to make sure you- Check the supporting file documentation http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player/jw-player-for-flash-v5/12539/supported-video-and-audio-formats If you are using anything other than mp4 its fine. If you are tying to play mp4 files and you are having problem with it (video not playing before it fully loaded) you must swap the index of … Read more
How to create thumbnails in wordpress with jwplayer
I did worked with the plugin YAPB (also possible with standard WordPress thumbnail but needs bit of code moding) and used this setting in the arrays of JW player. It might be not fully automated but you can control your introduction image. <?php if ($post->image): ?> ‘image’: ‘<?php echo $post->image->getThumbnailHref(array(‘w=400′,’h=276′,’q=95′,’zc=1′,’fltr[]=usm|30|0.5|3′)) ?>’, <?php else: ?> ‘image’: … Read more
Viddler oEmbed not working with specified width
Yes, seems that viddler changed their oembed endpoint, and the redirection from the old one is stripping the maxwidth. I made a core ticket about the issue: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/24296
How to play amazon S3 videos in wordpress 3.6?
How to play amazon S3 videos in wordpress 3.6?
oEmbed not working in WordPress
oEmbed not working in WordPress
How to use the new wp_read_video_metadata function
Can this function be used to read the metadata on my videos hosted on Amazon S3, basically can this function be used for external video and audio? I don’t think so. The WordPress code uses the PHP function file_exists() which doesn’t say it cannot check external files. The ID3 code, however, tries to determine the … Read more
Best Practices for Video Uploads to WordPress
In general, streaming video directly from your site isn’t advised. You can increase Max Upload size by making edits in php.ini or .htaccess, but your visitors may experience significant buffering, or even worse, extended page load times. You should consider having the videos stream from S3 or one of the hosted services.
Adding a video description in a similar way to a image caption
It will be interesting to see how the new evolving WP Gutenberg editor will handle shortcodes and embeds. If you use the shortcode for embedding, then a semi workaround, without UI support: where the custom desc attribute is supported with with this kind of wrapper: add_filter( ’embed_oembed_html’, function( $return, $url, $attr ) { if( ! … Read more
Vimeo videos not working
After further investigation this appears to be Vimeo blocking the requests. We have two sites (one where Vimeo videos work and one where they don’t). When testing the retrieval of content via PHP we get “HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden” on the faulty site. Anyone else reading this thread can run the same test … Read more