Classic Video not displaying on Posts Page

  • Resolved JVonD

    (@jvond)


    3 years, 6 months ago

    The posts page used to display the mp4 videos that were put into the “classic” block. Now it shows the URL and it’s not even a link. Anyway to revert it back to display the classic video player?
    Seems the WP updates changed something.
    Thanks! ~J

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  • Does it help if you use the Classic Editor plugin?

    Thread Starter JVonD

    (@jvond)

    Thanks for the reply. It doesn’t seem like I would need it cause it works fine when viewing a single post. It’s just the posts-page that doesn’t display it, but it used to.
    It would be nice not to have to use an additional plugin if the foundation is there.
    Maybe just a line of code somewhere..?
    Works fine here for example.
    https://www.jvond.com/2021-05-22_jvondradio_electronicjamnight/

    Hello @jvond

    From your link above, the video is playing in a single post. Are you trying to get all the videos to also play in a post excerpt?

    Thread Starter JVonD

    (@jvond)

    It used to have the players display with the image/splash screen, and now there’s just a link to the file. So it’s a bummer cause the posters (first vid frame) are cool.

    Is it behaving the same way if your mp4 file was listed in the excerpt of the post versus the body of the post?

    Is it behaving the same way if you used video embed (such as youtube)?

    Is it behaving the same way if you temporarily changed themes?

    Is it behaving the same way if you stored the mp4 file in metadata instead of post content?

    Thread Starter JVonD

    (@jvond)

    – Putting the link in the excerpt doesn’t display it.
    – Youtube embeds don’t show up in the posts list view either.
    – I changed my the theme to twenty twenty-one and it does the same.
    – The MP4 is “enclosed” besides that I don’t know how else to meta it.
    – Tried installing the “Classic Editor” didn’t work.

    Clicking on the post and going to the posts-page it displays properly it’s just when viewing multiple posts like a category view. They used to all display but I think I got a stupid auto core update or something that jacked it up. I tried to downgrade but it got all weird… Might try again.
    Seems like their’s something in the new posts view code that disabled the webkit or .mejs-container crap.

    Thanks a bunch! ~J

    Thread Starter JVonD

    (@jvond)

    I figured out the problem finally!
    The “Category View” in the theme was set to “excerpt”.
    I’m a douche bag! Thanks!

    Congrats on finding the solution and thank you for sharing with the community!

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