BUG: VIMEO vids are not the same size

Wrong document, that’s for WordPress.COM not this version.

See https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/ for an explanation.

With www.ads-software.com try putting this in Vimeo URL in of your posts like so

[embed]https://vimeo.com/2822787[/embed]

Or use Viper’s Video Quicktags plugin and instructions.

Hi Jan.

Can you or someone else clarify what you mean here? I am subscribed (paid) for help on this forum but I am hosting the site myself and access help on the .com forum. I think that plugin was actually recommended by a moderator on the other forum and I am just trying to get some help as to why it may not be working in Static.

What is the reason that this plugin would not work with my configuration? It seems to work relatively fine with the exception of the size being incorrect in some of them.

Thanks.

Jon

I am subscribed (paid) for help on this forum but I am hosting the site myself and access help on the .com forum.

You are absolutely not paying for this forum. This is a free forum with support from other volunteers and it’s 100% free.

You may be paying for access to https://graphpaperpress.com/support/ but that has nothing to do with here. That’s the support URL for your theme.

Can you or someone else clarify what you mean here?

Sure. Your blog https://formpig.com/blog/ is running www.ads-software.com software. That is the self-hosted, do-it-yourself, you-are-100%-responsible-for-it version.

I know you got that already, I’m just being thorough. ??

and access help on the .com forum.

Don’t do that. The .COM forums and documentation are for supporting the .COM users and does not apply to you. You’re not on WordPress.COM, you are hosting your blog not them.

That Vimeo article you linked to? That 100% has NOTHING to do with your blog. That’s a support doc for WordPress.COM which you are not hosted on. It doesn’t apply to the version of WordPress you are actually running.

The [embed] solution I gave you does apply and you can find more info here https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Embeds

The Viper’s Video Quicktags plugin does that too but is a little easier to define things like width and height.

I hope that clears things up.

Hi Jan.

I find this .com .org thing very confusing but other than using the support forums I have not had to deal with any differences. Thank you for the information. That said, I am just trying to solve a very simple problem that appears to me to be a bug.

Here is the format for the code that I have pasted in for the first two videos (which are smaller). As you can see they are both the same size:
https://vimeo.com/18821414

I have also used this format for the other videos on this page which are showing up LARGER.

I have tried your embed brackets for the first two videos (the smaller ones) and they STILL show up smaller:
[embed]https://vimeo.com/18821414[/embed]

Here is the page itself (which I will be testing):
https://formpig.com/blog/?p=1163

All the other videos in this page have code similar to the second one (i.e. without the embed brackets you suggested I need and they show up larger.

ALSO, it appears to me that the Embed link page you provide suggests to simply paste the url into the page without a hyperlink which is what the page I linked to was suggesting anyway.

All I am trying to do is to figure out why /two/ of the videos that I pasted in are not showing up the same size (you may be seeing three because I also am testing out the embed brackets on the second one).

Can you or someone help why they are not all showing up the same size?

Thanks,

Jonathan

Does your theme contain a wp-content/themes/f8-static/functions.php file?

If so, give this a try:

1. Make a backup copy of that functions.php and keep it in a safe place in case this breaks something.

2. Edit the wp-content/themes/f8-static/functions.php and add this line to it right above the end of that file’s ?> so that it looks like so:

$GLOBALS['content_width'] = $content_width = 600;
?>

Clear your browser’s cache and go to https://formpig.com/blog/?p=1163 and see if the two videos are still small or are 600px wide.

If you get a white blank page or PHP errors, replace the edited functions.php file with the backup copy you made in step #1.

Hi Jan.

Thanks very much. I really appreciate this.

In some ways I hate to mess around with the php code unless I am changing something specific in the text. Part of this is just to keep thing separated and manageable and part of it is a bit of my own limitations in getting the head space to deal with the code. I get in there sometimes but I try and avoid it as much as possible.

Does it make sense to you that I should make the effort to install the Viper Video Quicktags plugin and redo the links through this loaded plugin? In part I ask because of your excellent comments that this may make it easier for me to edit the sizes in this plugin.

One thing I do foresee in the future is a need to /try/ and match the video sizes to the image sizes in the same post. I’m not sure it it is possible to determine the actual size of the images in my posts but certainly if there is a plugin that makes editing the sizes of the videos a lot easier this will help one aspect of this.

Regards,

Jon

P.S. Do you happen to know if the Viper Plugin will also allow me to get in YouTube vids by any chance?

In some ways I hate to mess around with the php code unless I am changing something specific in the text.

That is a very excellent practice. ??

Does it make sense to you that I should make the effort to install the Viper Video Quicktags plugin and redo the links through this loaded plugin?

It really depends on how many posts and pages you need to edit to change the short code. If it is only a handful, then yes switch to Viper’s Video Quicktags. You can control the width and height rather easily.

If you have hundreds of videos then migrating to a new plugin may be problematic…

It’s a great plugin and I used it for years until I switched to the embed method. It supports YouTube, Vimeo, and several others.

Thanks so much Jan.

Do you mind if I post back to this thread in case I have a question or two about the plugin as I try and get it going in the next week or so?

Thanks and regards.

Hi Jan.

The plugin seems like it is wonderful. It’s acting pretty buggy though…

https://formpig.com/blog/?p=3253

Any thoughts? I’ve often found the Edit Post to act a little buggy in not being able to put text /after/ an image when it sometimes wants to show up /before/ an image, and then there is sometimes a blank space before an image that I can’t get to be deleted.

Love to get the plugin and the buggy edit post working a little better…

Cheers and thanks…