Will this work with WPFreeTube4

Hi Jernatety1,

You mean creating a post for each individual video on your account? Currently the plugin does not have such a feature, but I have been working on a feature that will allow the user to import and automagically create a post for each video.

Hopefully I will have that update released by sometime next week.

Thanks,
Evan

Hi Evan, I would definitely be interested.

I splice out each video clip from DVDs. I identify and name each clip like this:
ex. Oct 15, 1999 Bob Smith vs Ron Smith Hockey Team vs Hockey Team NHL

Once id’d, I upload them to youtube.

Here’s how I embed them on my site. I go into the ACP and click on “All Posts>Add New”. From the youtube channel I copy the entire name of the clip and paste it into the “Title” field. Next I select all of the categories so the clip is added to the right category to be found, ie. categories Bob Smith, Ron Smith, Hockey Team one, Hockey Team two.

Then I copy the embed code from the youtube clip and paste into custom field one and name it “video_code”. Then I copy the youtube video thumb image url and past that into another custom field and name that “thumb”.

Then I publish. As you can see it’s a rediculous process.

Do you think your api embedder will be able to help me?

Hey Jernatety1,

I actually made a HUGE amount of progress yesterday on this. What i’ve done is grant the user the ability to query a specific YouTube channel.

Once the query is complete the user is presented with the latest 25 videos from that channel, along with the video title, description, duration, likes/dislikes and other meta data.

The user can select a checkbox next to each video they want to import. They can also change the video title, or video description, select the category the video should be placed under, add tags to the post, and sets the featured image based off of the video thumbnail.

After selecting what videos they want to import, and adding their title/description/category/and tags they can select ‘Create Posts’. Each selected video will then be created into its own new post on your site, with the appropriate featured image, title and description and placed in the selected category.

Changing the video title and description is optional, if you don’t change it the post title and post content will be set to the video title and video description.

This allows a user to populate their site with YouTube content in a matter of minutes. No more copying and pasting titles/descriptions or embed codes to create new posts.

I just haven’t decided if I want to accept donations for the plugin, or release it to the repo for free. I’ve put a lot of time into this feature. I should have a demonstration video to show off in the next day or so.

Final question, does that theme use a custom post type to assign the post too, or is it just a standard post? Currently, I haven’t built in CPT support, but something that I have been considering as its somewhat important on larger customized sites.

Thanks,
Evan

Hi Evan, do you want access to check it out yourself?

Yea if you don’t mind creating me a temp account just so I can check it out. That way I can confirm the future plugin release will be compatible with your theme , and checkout how each post is created (using standard posts or CPT’s).

You can email me at [email protected] , it will be a more secure communicating there.

Evan

Done. I sent you an email. I can’t thank you enough for making this plugin.