Get Thumbnail

Hi.

Sorry to have taken a while to get back to you …

I’ve just been playing with the Video Thumbnail plugin, and the thumbnails don’t seem to generated until there is a call to the get_video_thumbnail function.

I’ve added some code to check whether the Video Thumbnail plugin is installed and to call the get_video_thumbnail function before displaying the thumbnails.

So far this seems to work well, but I now need to test thoroughly to make sure that I’m not introducing problems for anyone not using the Video Thumbnail plugin.

Hopefully I’ll be able to release the new version later today.

Further investigation shows that the Video Thumbnail plugin’s default settings seem to have them turned off for pages. Turning them on for Pages makes everything work as expected.

This can be changed from the WordPress dashboard from the Video Thumbnails option under the Settings menu.

However, I have found that requesting a video thumbnail for a page forces one to be created if it hasn’t been already … so in yesterday’s release I added a request prior to displaying the thumbnails when the Video Thumbnail plugin is installed to ensure that the thumbnails are always generated.

I’m marking this issue as resolved, as I believe that I have answered the query. If you do still have any problems, please do let me know.

Thank you for using CC Child Pages.

I’m sorry to re-open this thread, but I didn’t se your responses until now.

I have both CC Child Pages and Video Thumbnails activated, I see the code where it requests a video thumbnail, and I also have “pages” ticked off on my Video Thumbnail settings, so everything looks right…

But, my video thumbnails still aren’t showing up. Is there an additional shortcode or any customizing that I have to do?

Example:

https://www.myfightgym.com/classes/boxing/ is one example of a page using the shortcode [child_pages link_titles="true" cols="4" more="Train now" hide_excerpt="true" class="myclass" thumbs="true" link_thumbs="true"]

Thank you!

Hi.

Firstly, I think that the problem may be that you don’t have Video Thumbnails set to automatically set the Video Thumbnail as the featured image for the post/page.

However, when investigating this I found that on occasion the featured image was not being refreshed when a change was made to the page – leading to no thumbnail being displayed until it was manually set.

I have released a new version of the plugin which I hope will deal with your problem. It will try and use the featured image, if it is not set it will look for a Video Thumbnail and use that instead.

BTW, I was not able to see the problem on the page you sent a link to – as you need to be logged in to see the page.

Please let me know if the new version works better for you.

Kind regards

Tim Lomas

Thank you for your quick response.

I don’t currently have my video thumbnails set as featured images because I’m having an issue hiding the featured image on the actual pages where I don’t want them visible.

Your new update is bringing up my video thumbnails without having to set them as my featured image, however the proportions are off. Is there a specific shortcode to set the image size?

I made this page public so you could see what I mean: https://www.myfightgym.com/classes/taekwondo/

Hi.

I’ve just uploaded a new version of the plugin which (hopefully) further improves integration with the Video Thumbnails plugin.

This should ensure that your thumbnails are not squashed up anymore.

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