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Automated Featured Image

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  • Crystal 6 years, 4 months ago

    The add featured image automatically is not working in my wordpress site. How can I get this to work.

    Thank you,
    Crystal

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  • Lucia 6 years ago

    Hi Crystal!

    Can you please give us a bit more information about the problem? Do you have trouble with inserting featured image for videos (it is used in case there is no other featured image present) or do you have trouble with fetching automated featured image? This one work for Youtube and Vimeo hosted videos.

    Thanks,
    Lucia

    Crystal 6 years ago

    Oh, I thought that it fetched the featured image in the wordpress posts. That’s what I needed it for. So I wouldn’t have to go in and set splash images for each and every video.

    Thanks for answering me back.

    Martin 6 years ago

    Hello Crystal,

    the featured image is automatically assigned if:

    1) you pick the video splash screen from your WP media library
    2) you save a post with a Vimeo or YouTube video in it

    Please let us know if one of the above if the issue you are noticing and also what WordPress version you are using.

    Thanks,
    Martin

    Crystal 6 years ago

    Hi,
    I am using videos that are hosted on our site. And the featured image that I have uploaded are uploaded in wordpress. I was hoping by default that it would pick up the featured image in my wordpress posts to be shown as the splash screen without me having to manually add each splash image to a post. I have many posts with the video in them.
    I am running WordPress 5.0.3

    This would be a great thing if somehow your developers can do this. ;)

    Martin 6 years ago

    Hello Crystal,

    I see, so it’s the other way around. FV Player doesn’t have such feature currently.

    What we want to do instead is to let you pick the splash screen by selecting a frame in the video directly.

    Thanks,
    Martin

    Crystal 6 years ago

    Thanks for your response!
    The thing is that I dont want to go in manually for each video and have to select it. We have tons of video that I would have to do that for.
    Currently, we just have a video url set in a post and I have it set that fv player will play by default. I didnt have to go in and manually embed any short codes for my post even. So I’m not sure if what you are saying will work for us. Hopefully in the future fv could be able to pull the featured image of a post and make it the splash screen for that video.

    Martin 6 years ago

    Hello Crystal,

    FV Player comes with some useful filters, just like WordPress does. You can put the code from https://foliovision.com/player/advanced/api-programming -> “fv_flowplayer_args_pre” -> “code snippet which will automatically use the post featured image” to your theme functions.php and it will do what you need.

    Thanks,
    Martin

    Crystal 6 years ago

    Thanks! I will try this.
    Where do I place this code at?

    add_filter( 'fv_flowplayer_args_pre', 'fv_tweak_fv_flowplayer_args_pre' );
    
    function fv_tweak_fv_flowplayer_args_pre( $args ) {
      global $post;
      if( !empty($post) && empty($args['splash']) ) $args['splash'] = get_the_post_thumbnail_url( $post->ID, 'large' );
      return $args;
    }
    Martin 6 years ago

    Hello Crystal,

    you can put it into your theme functions.php file or create a mini plugin.

    More about the functions.php file can be found here: https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/basics/theme-functions/

    If you have some experience with PHP it’s very easy.

    Thanks,
    Martin

    Crystal 6 years ago

    Oh my gosh! You did it!!!! Thank you soooo much! This is exactly what I needed!!!!!!!

    Crystal 6 years ago

    How can I give this plugin a great review on the wordpress plugin page?

    Martin 6 years ago

    Hello Crystal,

    thank you, we always appreciate a fair and honest review, you can leave one here: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/reviews/

    Thanks,
    Martin

    Crystal 6 years ago

    No thank you! I am thrilled with this player and I want everyone knowing how great it is! I am sure others will appreciate this player as much as I do once they have tried it! I have been looking so long for a player that offers everything that yours does. So thank you, thank you, thank you!! :)

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