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Hi there! I just purchased FV Player and super excited about the posibilites on my site. One of the things I’m currently working through is serving up a video from YouTube (Once I know this works, I’ll purchase Vimeo Pro and do the same thing) with its link saved in a Advanced Custom Field. Right now I’m using some Elementor Video widgets that have a dynamic field for URL. I then link that to the ACF URL with the video link, for example: https://youtu.be/Y6_JERfWjKo and it loads the video. With hundreds of embedded videos on the site and with a few specific templates, I’m able to add videos without manually creating embed codes each time. I’m trying to find a similar solution with FV Player where I can tie the video link to that ACF field. Any thoughts? Thanks!
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Hello Will,
Same works for FV Player. Just find FV Player block in the Elementor and open our video editor via FV Player button. There you can easily edit all the properties and it will generate embed shortcode automatically.
Let us know if you have any other question.
Thanks for using our player,
Juraj
Thanks Juraj for the reply! I’ve got the FV Player widget loaded in Elementor, but not sure where I choose an ACF field as the URL? You can see in the 2 images I’ve attached what it looks like for me. In my current scenario the URL of the video being embedded is in an ACF field that the player references. I’m trying to find a similar approach with Foliovision.
Hello Will,
Thanks for all the info! Sadly, I was unable to run Elementor on my staging page, however when you’re using FV Player widget you should be able to open FV Player editor via the Edit button. In the FV Player editor you can embed the video and tweak all it’s settings(as you can see in the screenshot below). If not, please let us know we will have a look at that.
Thanks for using our player,
Juraj
Hi Juraj,
Thanks for the reply. I’m having no issues loading the FV Player widget. If you check out my reply above, I’m trying to use a URL stored in an Advanced Custom Field. I can use the FV Player widget just fine, but I’m looking to use a URL pulled from an Advanced Custom Field tag, instead of having manually paste video URLs. Can you provide any help with that, or any suggestions?I included screenshots above of the current solution I’m using and how they implement a “dynamic” option in Elementor. I’m looking for something similar with FV Player.
Hello Will,
how do you display that ACF field? Did you create a custom template in PHP? Then a code like this will make it work in FV Player:
echo do_shortcode( "[fvplayer src='".$youtube_link."']");
Thanks,
Martin
Hi Martin,
Thanks for your help. This functionality is built into a few Elementor video players I use. I can make the video URL field dynamic and point it to a Custom Field-which contains a unique URL for each post. In the screenshot I posted above It shows the functionality. It would be nice to have something similar with the FV Player Elementor implementation. I’ll do some digging to see if I can implement the code snippet you shared above though-thanks!
I know this is an old topic, but I’d like to see this functionality. This is fairly crucial.
Hello Calum,
the FV Player block in the Elementor works and the player which is then created on the page plays.
The request in this thread is about being able to load the video URL stored using ACF with Elementor and FV Player.
I have seen a similar setup – the custom post type was using the FV Player Video Custom Field and then the Elementor template was set to show it as a shortcode – see the attached image.
That way the custom post type was title, description and the video only, while user was able to build the template using the Elementor page builder.
Thanks,
Martin
I’m confused about this solution.
It’s not apparent to me looking at the link provided above where I am supposed to put all that. It refers to putting a code snippet in the functions.php and then the post template. If I am not mistaken, then please correct me. The code snippets themselves refer to the video being added at the END of a post. No ? Please clarify. I’ve read that thing 3 times and I’m not seeing where or how NOT to have it display there at all.
Look, I am literally pulling my hair out at having to have modify the site code to do this.
That aside, and not to put too fine a point on this BUT: Looking that the date that this post was brought up, and the current date, as well as the maturity of Elementor as well as ACF, shouldn’t this have already been built into FolioVision instead of us having to manually drop in code snippets that may or may not work at this point ?
I can understand a certain amount of X, Y and Z having to be done but IN MY OPINION the ability to have dynamic video for an Elementor post, page, or custom post type via ACF is kind of important at this jucture. No ?
Thanks.
Hello Miles,
In my screenshot I illustrated how a FV Player Video Custom Field can be inserted in an Elementor post template.
That way you can edit your post in a simple interface and only use Elementor for display. It’s much better than having to build your layout for every single post.
Please let us know if that’s indeed your goal.
It seems to me the best solution would be if each FV Player Video Custom Field would become available in the Elementor template builder. You can already set it to not show at the end of article, as the guide says:
You can also omit the “display” parameter to get more control over how the videos are displayed:
Thanks,
Martin
