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  • Resolved DSketch

    (@dsketch)


    1 year, 7 months ago

    Hi,

    I installed the plugin. I already have posts listed under a specific category (only for videos) on my website that either have hosted video or have youtube video embedded. However, the plugin doesn’t seem to identify those. Instead it askes me to create new category. Isn’t there a way to add an existing category to the plugin gallery?

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  • Plugin Contributor wpvideogallery

    (@wpvideogallery)

    Sorry, our current plugin version works only with categories added under our own categories page “Dashboard / Video Gallery / Video Categories“. But, I have taken note of this now. So, we would have the option to use the standard POST categories in the future. Kindly be patient.

    Thread Starter DSketch

    (@dsketch)

    Thanks for a prompt response. Another query – if I upload videos to categories created with your plugin, then are those videos treated as separate posts? The reason I am asking is to understand how efficient it will be from SEO perspective to add videos to the gallery created with the plugin.

    Plugin Contributor wpvideogallery

    (@wpvideogallery)

    Technically, our videos belong to a Custom Post Type named “Videos (aiovg_videos)”.

    The custom post types are WordPress core features to build custom content types. The standard posts that you see under the “Dashboard / Posts” menu itself is a Custom Post type added by WordPress. There are several other custom post types that come with WordPress by default,

    1. Posts.
    2. Pages.
    3. Attachments.
    4. Revisions.
    5. Navigation Menus.
    6. Custom CSS.
    7. Changesets.

    Similarly, the videos in our plugin belong to the custom post type “Videos”. This helps us to classify the videos from the standard posts on your website. So, you can manage the videos and the standard blog posts separately without any conflict. To be honest, this should not affect your site SEO anyway and technically our video pages inherit all the features that are supported in a standard POST including permalinks.

    Similarly, the categories and tags in our plugin belong to a WordPress Custom Taxonomy. Like custom post types, the “Taxonomies” are WordPress core feature to create custom category groups specific to a plugin or features in a website. These are the features that make WordPress more flexible and are designed for such tasks.

    Hope this helped you!

    Please let me know if still you have any questions.

    I too would like the ability to use an existing taxonomy for categories and tags, rather than duplicate what I already have.

    Plugin Contributor wpvideogallery

    (@wpvideogallery)

    @colevalleygirl,

    I promise that we would have an option to use existing taxonomy for categories and tags in the future. But, this require some time. Kindly be patient.

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