Unable to add video link

Hey Kari.

I can’t reproduce the issue you talking about. URLs add with no problem. Can you capture a simple screencast with the process? https://www.loom.com/

Regards, nK.

Hello @szentekari,
Maybe you are using the posts portfolio part instead of the page portfolio one, I did the same at the begining, trying to understand how this plugin works.
You can use this portfolio plugin to replace an archive page for posts.
But if you simply need a page with thumbnails and video popups, don’t use the “portfolio items” menu. You just have to create a page, add a visual portfolio block, and then add all the pictures in the same block. Then in the block features, you can chose image or video for each picture and set the video popup link.
I hope this will be helpful.
Regards

• This reply was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by webdee75.

I have the same issue !

I wanted to display a mixed photo & video portfolio using the posts type grid. So I was looking for a solution to create each video post I need. Fisrt I used the classic wordpress article (with the video type post option) to post each video, but Visual Portfolio don’t reconize it. Maybe because it seems that the visual portfolio block grids can’t display the posts without a featered image (this point, first of all, would be a great possibility in the future !). After that, I tried to post the videos using the item portfolio menu of the plugin (as described here : https://visualportfolio.co/documentation/portfolio-items/video-portfolio-item/#supported-video-vendors). And I had the same problem :

First, I was not able to paste the video URL.
And the, I did another try and this time the video URL form just didn’t appear in the option !

I didn’t find how to fix it …

• This reply was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by scratchdesign.

I did other tries finally I solved the creation of the video post with the “item portfolio” menu.

But it seems to be a wordpress issue bacause I just had the same trouble with the classic wordpress post… A first try was successfull, but a second try just give me the same trouble as creating a VP itemp portfolio video post type : I couldn’t paste the video URL… just weird !

Anyway : when creating the item portfolio video type post : I followed this steps :

1. I add a new item portfolio and select the video option (but the video URL form didn’t appear)
2. Just save the post as it si (with the option video post type checked)
3. The I edited the post : now the video URL form appeared
4. I Paste the video URL in the form (but it seems to have no effect)
5. I saved the post another time, by clicking on Update, even though I didn’t see the result.
6. Finally I edited the post another time : the URL appeared in te form !
7. I Saved the post by clicking on update.

So this results to be usefull for me, to achive this first task.
But now, I just can’t add this post in a post grid block presentation, as I mentioned above. The plugin just reconize posts with a thumbnail I guess…

Finally I got it :

I just used the classic wordpress post, with the video “type post” option to post each video (not the VP item portfolio). The videos posts didn’t seem to be included when I created a “posts grid” VP block.

But I was wrong when updating the block after chnanging the way I post the videos : the query parameters of the posts grid bloc still was setup to show the specific “portfolio_mycategory” posts (I created this taxonomy when I was using when posting the videos as a VP “itemp portfolio”). I just had to change for the standard wordpress category “mycategory”.

Then, the videos appeared but without thumbnail in the VP posts grid just because (I guess) VP doesn’t creat a thumbnail for the video posts. I sued another plugin to generate automatically the thumbnails. Now all is fine ! (it would be a great option that VP could generate automatically those thumbnails so we don’t need another plugin to achieve this).

Hey @scratchdesign.

Thank you for your clarification. I see now that posts metabox for video URL does not appear automatically. This bug will be fixed in the next plugin update.

You need to add thumbnails manually to make them visible in layouts. Video URL is used just for popup gallery when you click on items.

Regards, nK.