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Convert Old FV Shortcodes to New DB driven shortcodes

Foliovision › Forums › FV Player › Requests and Feedback › Convert Old FV Shortcodes to New DB driven shortcodes

  • CXL 6 years, 2 months ago

    Request: tool to scan for old fv Shortcodes and import them into the database.

    This would make it easier to make updates to videos since we can find them in the FV Player menu in wp-admin.

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  • Martin 6 years ago

    Hello CLX,

    please let us know how does a typical shortcode which you use look like. We might be able to create a conversion tool like this, but of course it gets more complex with playlists and so on. But perhaps just covering the very basic shortcodes with just src and splash attributes would help a lot of people and we could omit the rest and leave it for a manual conversion (just open it for editing and save).

    Thanks,
    Martin

    CXL 6 years ago

    Most shortcodes look like this:

    [fvplayer src="https://vimeo.com/235979129" splash="https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/657962011_1280x684.jpg?r=pad" caption="Class 2: Visual Branding" transcript="auto"]
    

    or this:

    [fvplayer src="https://vimeo.com/235979129" splash="https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/657962011_1280x684.jpg?r=pad" caption="Class 2: Visual Branding" transcript="auto" subtitles="https://conversionxli.warmpress.com/{{linktosubs.vtt}}]
    

    Data needed from old shortcodes:

    src, subtitles, transcript

    Everything else could be pulled from Vimeo on import.

    We don’t really use the playlists and could be handled on a case by case basis.

    Leho Kraav 6 years ago

    Kyle, should we run a wp cli query to look for shortcodes and get a report of the shortcode variations going?

    Martin 6 years ago

    Hello Kyle,

    how many shortcodes you really have to convert? If you just open the shortcode with FV Player editor and save it it will already convert it to a database entry. We will create some documentation for that too.

    Currently we don’t plan to add an automated conversion tool for this, but we could write such script for some website where there is a lot of videos and it makes sense to automate this.

    Thanks,
    Martin

    CXL 6 years ago

    Leho, yes. We should.

    Martin,

    We have over 40 courses to work through still. From 20 that I recently did manual work, it was ~150 videos.

    So I expect around 200-300 shortcodes to sort through…

    Opening and closing the shortcode works, however…
    – some pages were made in Classic editor which requires a button click to switch editors and/or adding a new FV block, then adding the old code, and then saving to get the new code
    – some are in the shortcode block, that need to be converted

    Leho and I will figure out how to do an audit and present findings.

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