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Whenever I save a page it is now adding a splash url to all the [fvplayer] links. When I attempt to delete it adds them right back.
I have a global splash screen I want to use 99% of the time and these auto generated ones are not wanted.
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Hello Michael,
thank you for reaching out to us!
From what source are you adding the videos? Some sources create automatic splash screens, others don’t.
As for the deleting issue, I have tested it out and was not able to reproduce it. However, we’ve had similar issues reported recently. I will forward this to the development team.
Thanks,
Maria
Hello Michael,
the issue Maria is referring to is that FV Player always uses it’s splash image as the Featured Image if there is none. We believe each post should really have the Featured Image.
However in your case I think the issue is related to the automated splash screens on Vimeo and YouTube.
Maria, please check if these are added even if you remove them in the editor. They might be added when the editor is closed or later on via a background cron job.
Thanks,
Martin
I’m using Vimeo. The splash screen is auto adding even after being deleted. I do not want to have to manually set every video to the custom screen we want to use.
Hello Michael,
I see the issue now – when you remove the Vimeo splash image in FV Player Editor it remembers that action.
But then in front-end the image is still displayed as it does not realize you removed it on purpose.
We will discuss how we could improve this as everybody wants the splash image. In some cases the Vimeo splash image might not be the best, so you can still put in your own. But we didn’t get a request to remove the splash and use the site-wide default yet.
Thanks,
Martin
That would be helpful. I didn’t see an easy way to overwrite the splash screen on Vimeo as a workaround in the meantime. So my process for now is, disable FV plugin, make my changes and save, then re-enable.
I have what sounds like a similar issue, but I’m not sure if it’s exactly the same. I am having an issue with FV Player that I’ve never seen before.
I have a WordPress post with an FV Player video shortcode embedded above the text. My video has the video file, a splash image file, and subtitles file, all hosted in a storage directory CDN with my host.
This has never happened before (and we make these videos with FV Player all the time), but when I save the post draft, a featured image is generated from the splash image. I can literally see a new upload in the media library each time I save. We do not want a featured image on the page.
Is this some setting in FV Player that may have been set on an update? How can I turn this off?
Hello Catherine,
your issue is slightly different. As Martin pointed out a few comments ago: “FV Player always uses it’s splash image as the Featured Image if there is none. We believe each post should really have the Featured Image.”
There was a setting to disable this in the past, but it was recently removed. It seems you’ve had it disabled in the past, but it became automatic in the last update. I’ll let Martin know about it and we’ll discuss returning the setting.
Thanks,
Maria
Hello Catherine,
please let us know why do you not want the featured image on your page. If you pick the proper Featured image for your page then FV Player will not interfere.
You also mentioned the issue that your see a new copy of the splash image in the media library every time you save.
We prepared a fix for that, if you need that fix right now you can reinstall FV Player from this link: https://github.com/foliovision/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/archive/master.zip To do that you will have to first deactivate and delete the current FV Player plugin you are using. WordPress will warn you that you might loose settings and data, but it’s not the case with our plugin, no settings now videos will be lost. Or you can just replace the plugin files via FTP.
Thanks,
Martin
Hi Martin,
These are news posts, and we usually don’t use a featured image on these posts. We do insert images into the text, but we usually don’t use the featured image on these posts. This really should not be automatic – it assumes everyone uses the featured image, and I’m sure we’re not the only ones who don’t.
I am happy to deactivate and reinstall to fix the media library issue, but will that also fix the issue of the video automatically placing a featured image on the post? Can I add some code that will negate that setting?
Thanks for your help!
Catherine
Hello Catherine,
we checked this with Alec and we would like to add a “Hide Featured Image” function into the standard WordPress Featured Image box. We will see if we can do that easily.
Thanks,
Martin
Hi Martin,
I deactivated and reinstalled FV Player on our dev site. To test, I created a new video with a splash image. When I pasted the shortcode into a new post, the splash image was added as the featured image, AND that image was uploaded to the media library. I was under the impression that reinstalling would fix the image being uploaded to the media library issue. Can you please advise? And also, has Alec determined if this setting can somehow be turned off?
Thanks,
Catherine
Hello Catherine,
I see that our function to avoid duplicate splash image uploads only works for the new players and not what you already posted to the website. We will improve that.
We found the behavior of the Featured Image is hard to adjust for the Gutenberg editor (block editor), so we need to take that into consideration.
Thanks,
Martin
Understood. As an FYI, we are not using the Gutenberg editor on these posts. We have Classic Editor installed. We are putting the shortcode into the traditional text area of WordPress.
Thanks,
Catherine
Hello Catherine,
FV Player 7.5.25.7210 is out. I will still set the Featured Image for you if there is none, but if you then remove it it will not set it again, unless you add another FV Player into the post. Then that one will also set it once.
Thanks,
Martin
