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I saw a thread that was 2 years old similar to this, and thought I would start a new one since there was no resolution. I don’t want to have my video lightbox link to be a thumbnail I want to control how it looks and just have it a link.
Also I don’t get the shortcode button in my pages, only in my posts.
If I can’t launch it from a link and has to be a thumbnail, how can I go about getting a refund?
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Hello Cary,
1) you can use HTML like this to have a MP4 file show up in lightbox and open it by clicking on a link:
<a href="video.mp4" class="colorbox">lightbox</a>We are actually working on the documentation these days, so we should be able to finish it today.
2) Please let us know what theme you are using. It’s weird that the shortcode button doesn’t work on your pages. Are you using any special editor or is any special editor built-in into your theme?
Thanks,
Martin
I am using Avada. are there any other classes I would use to control things like size, etc when doing it as a link?
well, I tried it. I put it in the revolution slider. all that it did was open the video in a new window.
Hello Cary,
when using the anchor with class colorbox it respects the defaults from Settings -> FV Player -> Sidewide Flowplayer Defaults.
You can also use a shortcode like [fvplayer src="video.mp4" lightbox="text" caption="anchor text"] to show the link which opens the lightbox and you can put in additional parameters to the shortcode that way. A demo of this can be seen at the end of page here: https://foliovision.com/player/demos/fv-flowplayer-lightbox
We are improving our documentation for this as we speak.
Thanks,
Martin
that worked… in a way. What is the lightbox container css selector. It goes behind the logo and navigation. I can at least increase the z-index to help that.
also is there a way to set the size of the video popup?
Hello Cary,
1) Do you mean it’s covered by your theme logo and navigation? You should be able to use #fv_player_pro_boxWrapper to solve your issue. It already has z-index: 9999.
2) You can use the shortcode editor to fill in the video width and height, or just add width=”1280″ height=”720″ to set some big size for the lightbox. It’s fully responsive as well.
3) Avada – could you please send us some link where we can check the page editor used in that theme? Is it the default WordPress editor or some kind of custom editor?
Thanks,
Martin
yes it uses a visual editor. I think visual composer. here is the theme info http://avada.theme-fusion.com/
Hello Cary,
I checked that page and it doesn’t appear to me it’s the default WordPress editor. Since you have the license, could you please ask the developers if they use the media_buttons action hook to show custom plugin buttons for editor?
Thanks,
Martin
Hello Cary,
Just for your information, FV Player now fully supports Visual Composer. You will now be able to use the shortcode editor in the Text Block editor in both Backend and Frontend editing modes. Just update FV Player plugin to version 6.3 and you can use this function without any further settings.
Thanks,
Eduard
