Lightbox for self hosted videos without gallery

There aren’t really any pre-made galleries in my plugin. They’re all generated on the fly. I don’t know exactly how your template works, but here’s an example. Let’s say in your template your filter pulls up a video attachment with an id assigned to $attachment_id. If you only have one video you want in a lightbox, you would do something like this:

echo do_shortcode('[KGVID gallery="true" gallery_include="'.$attachment_id.'"][/KGVID]');

If you have multiple videos you want to display in a group at the end of the post, you could take all their IDs and convert them to a comma-separated list. Let’s assume they’re part of a wp_query result.

if ( $posts ) {
     $attachment_ids = array(); //initialize our array
     foreach ( $posts as $post ) {
          $attachment_ids[] = $post->ID; //add each post ID to the array
     }
     echo do_shortcode('[KGVID gallery="true" gallery_include="'.implode( ',', $attachment_ids).'"][/KGVID]'); //convert the array to a comma-separated list
}

Does that help or am I misunderstanding what you’re looking for?

Thanks for the quick response.

Tbh – I don’t know. My coding skills are somewhere between little to non-existent.

Ignoring the taxonomy filter (which is a plugin that create a widget filter for any theme), I think if I can just get a single post with a single video in it to display said video in a lightbox the rest might fall into place.

I was thinking of getting a video player plugin with built in lightbox, but the best cheapest one I could find is $75 which is way outside of my price range unfortunately.

Are your videos attached to the posts you want them to be in? Then just add this shortcode to your post and see what happens [KGVID gallery="true"][/KGVID]

I was previously embedding it with your plugin that generated the embed shortcode – add the gallery shortcode below that doesn’t work though.

The only way I could get it to work was to add the video to the media library, then insert it and on the right side by the plugin options to select ‘wordpress default’. Then to add the shortcode you provided.

Two instances of the video show up though, the actual inserted one that plays as it is and the gallery one that enlarges to the lightbox.

Don’t worry about it Kyle. I’ll live with it as is. It’s taken enough of your time and it’s not something that is mandatory for the implementation.

Thanks for your efforts and again for a great plugin.

rbphoenix80
I believe I have a similar request. I have a bunch videos stored on the web server and new videos are added daily based on input from site visitors. These “favorites” are displayed as a list in a plain html file (https://torolmen.no/scripts/fav.html) which is a “dull” way of presenting these videos.
I was hoping this plugin could provide a better presentation of the videos, but I am not able to find out how to create a gallery from a comma separated list of videos.

Unless all your videos are in your WordPress database you can’t make a gallery using my plugin. If they are, then you can use the code I wrote for rbphoenix80. You just need a list of WordPress IDs.