I’ve received many emails complaining that the plugin does not recognize YouTube videos. Because of lack of time, I delayed the update until now.
I just released an update to the plugin which should solve most of the issues that I was contacted about.
Go ahead and download the new version:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/youtube-thumbnailer/
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sean brennan (5 comments) on 01.15.2010
Do you know of a related posts (with thumbnails) plug-in that will use the thumbnails that your Youtube Thumbnailer creates? Currently using Thumblated Related Post, but just get blank thumb for posts with youtube embedded.
Austin (5 comments) on 01.15.2010
Great plugin – works a treat for my older posts.
Any way so it periodically checks for new posts and add a custom field for them if a video found?
Cheers,
Austin.
Oren Yomtov (55 comments) on 01.16.2010
@Austin
It does that by default :)
Check the settings page.
Oren Yomtov (55 comments) on 01.16.2010
@sean
You can change the name of the custom field the plugin uses.
sean brennan (5 comments) on 01.16.2010
I’m not sure what I should change the name of the custom field to… or how that would help the youtube thumbnails to show up in the related posts thumbnails. Could you elaborate?
related post plugin I’m CURRENTLY using is Thumblated Related Post (http://www.devilslab.com/wp-thumblated-related-post)
it doesn’t have many settings or ask for a custom field name. It uses first image in the post. I thought you might know of another plugin that would work better in conjunction with your plugin?
sean brennan (5 comments) on 01.16.2010
one more thing… I know there is some modification I’m supposed to make to theme file – functions.php to implement the new thumbnail features added in wp 2.9.1, but I have yet to figure out what exactly I’m supposed to do for that, could that be part of the problem?
Oren Yomtov (55 comments) on 01.16.2010
@sean
Well, the plugin that you are using doesn’t support custom fields. Sorry.
I once new a good plugin for thumbnails. I know that Brian Gardner used it for some of his themes. But I just can’t come up with the name.
About the modification – I have never heard of that.
sean brennan (5 comments) on 01.16.2010
here is the modification I was talking about… not sure if it is necessary.
http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/new-in-wordpress-2-9-post-thumbnail-images/
Oren Yomtov (55 comments) on 01.16.2010
Nice, this is good news but not related to your situation.
sean brennan (5 comments) on 01.16.2010
OK. If you remember the plugin PLEASE let me know. I see a few out there but one I’m using is only one I found that is up to date for wp 2.9.
I asked on WP forum but no one ever answers me there.
Oren Yomtov (55 comments) on 01.16.2010
@sean
Most plugins that are up to 2.7 or 2.8 are usually also good for 2.9
I will let you know, no problem.
Austin (5 comments) on 01.16.2010
Hey Oren;
Thanks for the reply. Can see how the settings work for posts created normally.
I’m using a youtube autoposter plugin that seems to add posts directly into the db so they never call the api.
The only way I can think of to get around this is to run your plugin via wp cron and get it to only check posts made in last ‘x’ hours so it executes quickly.
Could that work do you think?
Cheers,
Austin.
Oren Yomtov (55 comments) on 01.16.2010
I think this can work well. Just without the x hours idea…
Austin (5 comments) on 01.16.2010
Does the plugin check every single post for the presence of a youtube video whenever it runs? With some sites using the youtube autoposter it’s in the 1000′s. if wp cron is used and is triggered by a site visitor then wouldn’t the plugin take a while to run thru all of the posts and therefore cause the page load to be quite slow?
Oren Yomtov (55 comments) on 01.16.2010
Yes.
Give it a shot, and see how long it takes.
Austin (5 comments) on 01.16.2010
Will do. Btw – I had to add a ‘?’ to the preg match otherwise it was including f=videos (not sure if that’s a common youtube parameter)
Oren Yomtov (55 comments) on 01.16.2010
Please explain…
Austin (5 comments) on 01.16.2010
One of the plugins I’m using posts videos with following type URLs: http://www.youtube.com/v/tGd5pLU2-fI?f=videos
I had to change the plugin to add a ‘?’
if (preg_match(‘#http://www\.youtube\.com/v/([^?&"\']*)#’,$p->post_content,$match) )
otherwise it would include ?f=videos in the thumbnail URL.
Oren Yomtov (55 comments) on 01.17.2010
Oh thanks, I’ll update the plugin in the next release.
Perry (1 comments) on 01.26.2010
Hi Oren,
Yhanks for your wonderful plugin. I have a question: the option to automatically update de thumbnail when saving or updating a post doesn’t seem to be working on my wordpress 2.9 site. Any suggestion?
I made a site for my son so he can collect youtube clips. Of course my son isn’t a admin user so i can’t let him run the plugin manually.
Thanks in advance,
Perry
Oren Yomtov (55 comments) on 01.26.2010
Hey Perry,
Thank you for noticing.
I have released a new version that should fix this bug:
http://orenyomtov.com/youtube-thumbnailer-v1-1.html
@Austin I included your fix in the new version.
Kevin Rohland (1 comments) on 02.15.2010
I have a problem.
How to add the word into the news?
Thanks
Karen Hayes (1 comments) on 02.18.2010
Youtube is my favortie site to visit aside from facebook. most of the time i watched movie trailers and music videos on it.
Mark (3 comments) on 05.16.2010
hey i did try install it and run it and it sitll not giving any thumbnail …. i wish you show screenshot … i tho it will be like maybe 20 youtube in front page .. and then click it then it go to single page with comment
Oren Yomtov (55 comments) on 05.16.2010
It should store the URL to the thumbnail in a custom field names “thumbnail”.
It’s up to your theme to display it.
Metacowboy (2 comments) on 05.17.2010
Great plugin as i start mostly with a youtube video and it nearly works for me .
The only stuff i miss is that its only find videos that are ebeded with the Embed code from youtube . Most videos on my blog added via WP- Youtube Plugin
Is there a way that your Plugin detects these too and place a Thumb.
Keep on these great work
Thanks
Oren Yomtov (55 comments) on 05.17.2010
I will consider doing so in the future.
Please post a link to the plugin for the record.
Metacowboy (2 comments) on 05.17.2010
Thank you for your Hyper fast feedback .
Link to the WP-Plugin
http://www.daburna.de/dokuwiki/doku.php/instruction
It supports more than youtube but the Syntax is the same i found your Plugin description [youtube ID]
Not shure if there would be a simple way to extend to Veho ,Facebook Video and other Video services too
Freindly Greets
HART (1 comments) on 09.02.2010
Hi Oren. I’m trying to get this plugin to work but, can’t seem to … is it broken on WP3.0.1 ?
I’m using this plugin http://www.wpvideotube.com/ and would like a thumbnail created when the video is created and inserted in the blog post. I’m then using the Thumbnail for Excerpts plugin to pick it up on the front page of the Thesis template. I’ve tried your plugin and ran the “Run YouTube Thumbnailer” in Tools, and although it looks like and identifies all posts with YouTubes in my database – it’s not adding any thumbnail to the post’s custom fields at all.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance / HART
Oren Yomtov (55 comments) on 09.02.2010
Hey,
I don’t know what’s causing this.
I can help you if you give me the credentials to that WordPress installation.
You can contact me through the contact page on this website.
Regards,
Oren.