ARVE and Visual Composer no longer compatible…

  • Resolved rnbutler87

    (@rnbutler87)


    8 years, 2 months ago

    Hi,

    I’ve been using ARVE for a while now to embed my youtube videos by adding the shortcodes to my Visual Composer text blocks and it’s worked great. Then when I updated ARVE, I can no longer embed links in the text block of Visual Composer. The existing shortcodes work but if I want to add new ones I can’t because when I click the embed video button but no dialogue appears. It used to appear behind the VC dialogue so at least I could create the ARVE shortcode but now nothiing happens.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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  • A work-around you can do: Create a new page without loading VC, edit your videos per usual, then click Text to find your code. Slap that into a Text Block, adjust the paddings as needed, and you’re set.

    Plugin Author Nico

    (@nico23)

    Sorry but I have a hell lot do to, especially after this huge release and all kinds of issues, I have no plans trying to support huge 3rd party plugins like that. ARVE is supposed to work with vanilla WP with the Shortcode UI plugin and thats it for now.

    Thanks @griphy for the workaround, apart from that I do not think its so hard to manually write shortcodes. You pick youtube or whatever URL and then:

    [arve url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7g8-GxLTSc"] for parameters you can look up the documentation.

    SEO ready Shortcode would be [arve url="https://youtu.be/Z7g8-GxLTSc" title="Your SEO Title" description="Your SEO Description" upload_date="2016-09-14"]

    If you need a ID for the thumbnail parameter you can get if from the media gallery but clicking on the image and looking at the URL wp-admin/upload.php?item=13968 the number on the end is the ID. So a video with this image as responsive custom thumbnail would be:

    [arve url="https://youtu.be/Z7g8-GxLTSc" thumbnail="13968"]

    Apart from the last part with the image ID (that most people to not use) from my point of view, creating shortcodes is pretty straight forward. But I would be glad to hear your opinions on that.

    Also I not mean to offload work to them but Visual Composer seems like a highly successful plugin with a high user base, maybe ask them about this? My guess is that it is not compatible with the Shortcake Shortcode UI plugin ARVE uses now, if true that also effects other plugins using it not just ARVE.

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by Nico.
    Thread Starter rnbutler87

    (@rnbutler87)

    Thank you both! Griphy, this worked a charm.

    Nico, thank you for a really detailed reply, was very helpful. Your link to the parameters documentation made me realise that I could try mapping them in VC’s shortcode mapper. I’ve done that and it worked. Now have an ARVE shortcode element in VC which works perfectly.

    Best of both worlds. Thank you again!

    Thread Starter rnbutler87

    (@rnbutler87)

    PS I meant to ask, is the upload date parameter the upload of the video on Youtube, for example. Or is it the date I publish my wordpress post?

    Plugin Author Nico

    (@nico23)

    Its part of the Schema.org VideoObject data, so I think its should be the date then the video was released/uploaded I don’t think it makes sense to change it.

    But I am not he SEO guy so they may have some “tricks” to fake the date to get better SEO ranking or whatever.

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