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When will it make thumbnails automatically?

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Gwidion
11 years ago · Last reply by Andrew Misplon 11 years ago

Hi, I like the theme but creating and uploading an image for each video makes it unusable for me. I think you wrote 10 months ago that you would work on it.
Will you make it within few weeks? I guess I will ask a refund otherwise.

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  1. Gwidion 11 years, 6 months ago

    I am talking particularly about Youtube videos.

  2. Andrew Misplon Staff 11 years, 6 months ago

    Hi Jan

    Thanks for running Focus.

    This feature has unfortunately not yet been added to the theme. All suggestions are considered and then weighted according to popularity. At this stage I can’t say when or if this feature will be added to the theme.

    You might consider this plugin: http://wordpress.org/plugins/video-thumbnails/. I haven’t tested it myself but a client let me know earlier this year that it was working well for him.

  3. Gwidion 11 years, 6 months ago

    Thank you for the tip.
    In the plugin options I need to fill in the name of the custom field where my embed code or video URL is stored. When it is blank it searches only in the main textarea. When I fill in focus_video[public][external] or focus_video[premium][external] it finds nothing. When I fill in only focus_video, it will throw a PHP error, that I have given an array.
    Can you please help me with what to fill in?

  4. Andrew Misplon Staff 11 years, 6 months ago

    I’m afraid I haven’t run the plugin at this stage. For specific assistance with this plugin it would be best to open a thread on the plugin support page.

  5. Andrew Misplon Staff 11 years, 6 months ago

    Hi Gwidion. I had a chance to look into this now. I haven’t resolved the custom field yet. I’ll re-look at it tomorrow and come back to you ASAP.

  6. Andrew Misplon Staff 11 years, 6 months ago

    We need to do this a little differently because Focus stores the video url in an array. So under Settings > Video Thumbnails > Custom Field enter any name, something like video_url. Then go to your post, click Screen Options and check the Custom Fields checkbox. Scroll down, create a new Custom Field called video_url, basically the same name we entered earlier and enter your video url in the Value field.

    Following that you might have to run Tools > Bulk Video Thumbs.

    In summary; yes, you do unfortunately need the enter the url twice, once in the Focus Video field and again in the custom field.

  7. Gwidion 11 years, 6 months ago

    It works. Thank you! I appreciate your help.

  8. Andrew Misplon Staff 11 years, 6 months ago

    Super, glad to hear that helped. Thanks for hanging in there with us.

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