Imbed YouTube videos in reviews

I did a quick test. The YouTube video shows up in the single view, but not through a list or slider view. I’m not sure why.

I added this as a bug/enhancement at https://github.com/michael-cannon/testimonials-widget/issues/92.

What’s your timeline? Mines tight for the next two weeks.

Hi,

Thanks for the quick response. Of course, I would like it yesterday ?? as I’m about to launch a video review contest with our customers. I do appreciate your effort to support and I am willing to wait a bit for it to work.

I would like to have all reviews on one page with embedded videos so that anyone perusing can view them in place. Links just don’t grab attention like an embedded video.

I subscribed to the bug/enhancement and anxiously await.

Thanks…..

I got an idea during the afternoon while walking with my family to make this work. Seems it works in development. Now, please try https://github.com/michael-cannon/testimonials-widget/archive/2.19.6RC1.zip.

I’m onto India Monday, so get back to soon if this works and you need a formal release before then. Otherwise, it’ll be next weekend at the earliest.

Hi Michael,

Do I need to use any shortcodes or something? I still just get the url in the review. You can see here -> https://beevac.com/reviews/

I just have the RC1 version of the plugin activated, not the premium version.

Thanks

Sorry, I meant also to say, check the Enable Video option in the Testimonials > Settings and possibly widget options location.

OK great, got it to work. Yes please do a formal release. I truly appreciate your timely addressing of this request.

One question/suggestion, would it be possible to automatically detect the youtube links and not require the <iframe> code? When getting customers to submit video reviews, most can handle giving the youtube url, but I’m sure some will struggle understanding they need to include the embed code. Or perhaps even a video url field on the submission form like the ‘Image by URL’. No rush, have a safe trip to India.

They only need to include the url. All else is automatic.

I’ll release the updates shortly.

They only need to include the url. All else is automatic.

I can only get it to work if I use the YouTube embed code (ie. iframe). But the form won’t accept the iframe HTML so customers won’t be able to do it.

I disabled all other plugins and used twenty twelve theme just to make sure it wasn’t a plugin or theme conflict.

You can see it here -> https://beevac.com/reviews

Are you using https://downloads.www.ads-software.com/plugin/testimonials-widget.2.19.7.zip?

A link like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duKL2dAJN6I should work fine when pasted directly into the testimonials form.

Given that my dev systems and live demo work, I suspect there’s a conflict with your system. Try the debug routine per the FAQ to figure out where.

If still stuck, please email an admin to [email protected] with a reference to this posting.

As soon as I looked again at the reviews, I noticed that the YouTube links were https. This is a bug in WordPress.

Fix via adding the following to your theme’s functions.php file.

// @ref https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/113550/8219
function my_embed_oembed_html( $html ) {
    return preg_replace( '@src="https?:@', 'src="', $html );
}
add_filter( 'embed_oembed_html', 'my_embed_oembed_html' );

This is how I’ve enabled secure YouTube links on my own sites.

Alright, not solved quite yet, but I was able to duplicate the situation on my development system. Will try to resolve in the upcoming weeks.

For now, toss [embed]URL[/embed] around the links.

Yes, users should need to do such, but somethings changed where CPT saving doesn’t get the same processors as Posts and Pages anymore.

Great, will do

Thanks

tossing [embed]URL[/embed] around the links works – thank you. But it does not allow me to add “&rel=0” to stop the display of related videos at the end. Is this a bug? New feature required?