This is Resolved – but I wanted to post it here to hopefully save someone else the hour it just took me to sort out.

Compliment sandwich: We LOVE your plugin by the way! Thank you so much for offering a free version for us small startups with basic needs!

Not sure when the issue started, but client had been using this plugin and the YouTube API for several years without issue. Nothing changed that should have had any effect on the connection.

Trying to add a video for this client’s blog post and kept getting “Request failed. (Requests from referer?are blocked.)” I searched on here for mention of “request failed” and your website – found nothing. Went to google. There I found threads discussing API issues. I went into VWP’s settings in WP admin to “Test API” and it failed, giving this response:

{ “error”: { “code”: 403, “message”: “Requests from referer \u003cempty\u003e are blocked.”, “errors”: [ { “message”: “Requests from referer \u003cempty\u003e are blocked.”, “domain”: “global”, “reason”: “forbidden” } ], “status”: “PERMISSION_DENIED”, “details”: [ { “@type”: “type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.ErrorInfo”, “reason”: “API_KEY_HTTP_REFERRER_BLOCKED”, “domain”: “googleapis.com”, “metadata”: { “consumer”: “projects/[/*omitted by Abby*/]”, “service”: “youtube.googleapis.com” } } ] } }

Your API tutorial video mentioned not restricting the API in case of domain name change, but that has not /will not be happening in my client’s case. I also had every wildcard version of the domain in the allowed domains. The only thing that fixed it was changing Application Restrictions to None. I did add an API restriction for only YouTube Data API v3, just to have some protection, and it’s working fine with that.

So we’re all set, but if anyone encounters this, go to Google’s API Console and change your API’s application restrictions to “None” and Test again in a few minutes.

Also, a FYI that your API help video and the Help Doc’s screenshots/descriptions for Google Cloud are outdated. I know it changes so often, but it might be nice to at least add a few of the section name changes and added complexities. I wish it was still as simple as it was back then…

Thanks again for the great plugin!

Hello friends, we are using this plugin, we want to know if there is a premium version that allows the main videos or as featured image of the news can have option to autoplay, the videos are uploaded through youtube.

Hi,

Great plugin, just what I wanted/needed. However trying to add a ‘short’ video from YouTube I am getting this error message.

Video source and ID could not be identified into the URL you passed.

The clip is 55 seconds long. Other clips that I have added after this one are fine. Think that YT call it a short if less than 60 seconds.

Hello.

I enabled YouTube v3 API after reading How to get YouTube API key and put key in the plugin.

However, I am getting the following error.

{ "error": { "code": 403, "message": "The request cannot be completed because you have exceeded your \u003ca href=\"/youtube/v3/getting-started#quota\"\u003equota\u003c/a\u003e.", "errors": [ { "message": "The request cannot be completed because you have exceeded your \u003ca href=\"/youtube/v3/getting-started#quota\"\u003equota\u003c/a\u003e.", "domain": "youtube.quota", "reason": "quotaExceeded" } ] } }

I just activated the API from the console, so I haven’t exceeded the quota.

Can you please let me know if there is a solution to this problem?

Thank you.

Hi,
Since the YouTube Data API V3 is no longer free, we’re looking for getting an enterprise account. Do you have any ideas about prices and quotas for this API?

Hi,

will this plugin works for wcfm vendors?

Hi

We are looking for a premium plugin that allows us to replace featured image with a featured video. However, when I used your free version it didnt work (we use Jnews as a theme as we are a news website).

Especially the video image doesnt show up in the slider? It shows blank image. Will your premium plugin work and overcome this problem if we purchase it? Can we try it once to see if it works?

Regards

Ugur GUVEN

I would like to add a stroke outline to the image; it is invisible on white video backgrounds. Without going into the actual plugin code (which is obviously not optimal, as I see this plugin is updated fairly often) is this possible?
I see it is play-button.png in assets/front-end/images, which should be easy enough to manually change with FTP.
Until it is updated, then it’s a remedial chore!
Maybe have a selector option in paid.

• This topic was modified 2 years ago by machinelf.

HI this hidden message interferes with the layout:

<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br>
</p>

The <p>...</p> has margin top and bottom and is inside main container of my theme (Enfold). It adds unwanted space at the top of main container, and can’t hide with css because it has no own class…

Can you chek this please?

(…do I need that message there? I’ve disabled video on posts for my own purposes..)

• This topic was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by uomopalese. Reason: added explanation

Hello Javi,

I have installed everything including the youtube api, everything seems fine on the back end. The plugin replaces the original featured image with the youtube video one (look at ‘homemade tank test’), BUT as you can see it’s not the actual video that can be played on click.

Let me know if there’s way to fix this! Thank you so much

Is it possible to just have the thumbnail in den post and if you open it in the lightbox it is showing the regular video? Or at least it’s also viewable in the lightbox.

That would be nice.

Hi!
This is just what i was looking for, but, after a while configuring the plugin, api etc, it’s a pity that i can’t make it work ??
I’d like to show fullscreen featured video in a page: it replaces featured image with the first image of the video, but still image. I think all is working well, but the video doesn’t play. Any idea, please?

thanks in advance: Javi.

(theme Photty, site under construction.)

Hi:

First of all, great job with VideographyWP.
Featured video is not working. What can it be?

I’m using Avada.

Screenshot

Thanks,
Danny

Hi!

I started using the plugin and it is awesome, I tested it a few times to attach a video and generate the featured image and it worked great, however, for some reason the featured image function is returning an error:

There was an error, please try again

What’s curious is that the image gets added to the media library, but for some reason it is not added as featured image to the post.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

• This topic was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by alextc.

I’m using this plugin (Category Posts Widget) to show posts on homepage.
That plugin using template structure to show posts as in this screenshot. https://prntscr.com/138cpxr

Because of this featured videos is not showing. Is there anything that I can work this out? Thanks in advance!

• This topic was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by Yui. Reason: renamed topic, not informative name

I followed the steps in the “WordPress Theme Compatibility” section in the documentation, but no dice. The option has been added to my custom post type, but the queried url disappears when I update the post. Nothing displays on the front end. Some help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Hi,

I just installed this plugin. After fiddling around with it, I managed to get the video to replace the featured image, but I’m facing two issues now:

1. I can’t seem to get the video to auto-play on page load.

2. For some reason, the video that replaces the featured image breaks the structure of the page. The theme has the featured image set as the header background with the title on top. When using the plugin the video appears on the left and the title, from a centered position, goes on the right.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Hello there, recently i stumbled upon a weird error when I am trying to query a video with your plugin, i get the following error
{ “error”: { “code”: 403, “message”: “The request cannot be completed because you have exceeded your \u003ca href=\”/youtube/v3/getting-started#quota\”\u003equota\u003c/a\u003e.”, “errors”: [ { “message”: “The request cannot be completed because you have exceeded your \u003ca href=\”/youtube/v3/getting-started#quota\”\u003equota\u003c/a\u003e.”, “domain”: “youtube.quota”, “reason”: “quotaExceeded” } ] } }

i have checked the API console and checked to see that quota isnt exceeded. As i havent used any of my quota to query anything before during a month, it seems weird to get an error regarding quota exceeded.
Is the API call from this plugin too large for the daily quota or is there anything else giving this error?

I want to achieve an effect like the following links, and I see tha Viemeo offers autoplay without play button or any other tags or title on top of the video. I want it to be a clean video only as the featured image on single product page.

https://www.overnightmountings.com/engagement-rings/new-bridal/engagement-rings-58821.html

On my homepage I show the 7 last posts. If there’s a new video, I would like to show the video as the featured image. I can only get it to show the thumbnail. Unable to get it to show the video with controls in the featured image area.
I’ve tried all the possible settings.
Api=OK, WP 5.5, twenty twenty theme.

1 week ago I used the plugin with great success but today I keep getting this error:
“{ “error”: { “code”: 403, “message”: “Requests from referer https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=id&key=AIzaSyA2fDlRNMHSqzkKmSPdLlmSLCCR2xxxxxx&chart=mostPopular are blocked.”, “errors”: [ { “message”: “Requests from referer https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=id&key=AIzaSyA2fDlRNMHSqzkKmSPdLlmSLCCR2xxxxxx&chart=mostPopular are blocked.”, “domain”: “global”, “reason”: “forbidden” } ], “status”: “PERMISSION_DENIED” } }”

I have not changed anything, still using the same Youtube API. Please help me!

The last 6 numbers in API is left out with XXXXXX

The plugin seems to be working in that the videos are now replacing the featured image but they’re showing up twice and I can’t figure out how to fix this.

My embed position is set to “replace feature image”, I have the featured image set to “show” and “Set image as featured image” is unchecked.

I can provide screenshots if needed.

Hi,

I can’t get this plugin to work. I only get the image of the first frame of the video and it does not play. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Hi ??

First, thanks for this plugin which is working well with Kleo theme and congratulations for it ??

I’m using Buddypress and Social Articles, so it’s my community who writes the posts. It means, to use your plugin I need to edit the post everytime after someone posted so I’m wondering if there’s a way to auto get the youtube link from the post and set it as featured image, like this on my homepage we can directly get all youtube videos (if post is a video).

Thanks for your support ??

If I set “Replace as featured image” the video is not showed, why?

P.S. I use Planta wp theme.

Hello,

I’m having a problem that I can’t seem to find an answer to.

When the FI is a static image, it’s centred nicely over the title and the article, but when I use a video as the FI it moves to the far left side of the screen, looking odd.

I’ve tried various CSS fixes without effect.

I’m using WP 5.4.1 with the Twentyseventeen theme.

Is there a way to get it centred in the same way the static FI is?

Thanks!

Installed VideographyWP and it was working fine for a few days, but something changed. We’re using Jet Smart Posts List on our homepage, and when we filter to a different category, the “Replace Featured Image” option doesn’t work. Instead, it shows a vertical black box.

To replicate:

Go to [ redundant link removed ] Scroll down until you see “The Latest” and in there you should see at least one video thumbnail. This works as expected.

Then, if you change to the PHOTO filter (next to THE LATEST), you’ll notice that the video thumbnail is stretched to be a big black box.

Not seeing any errors in the console, and health check came back and passed. Help!

• This topic was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by Jan Dembowski.

Hello,

we’re using your plug-in for a blog within a site, of which posts sometimes contain a video and this video then have to replace the featured image.

The youtube api key we generated had worked well for the first videos implemented some months ago.

But yesterday it failed, although we have altered nothing with the key on googles project site. Nevertheless we created a new key, naturally without any restrictions. We tested it, and even this new one has failed again.

What can we do?

Kind regards

My featured videos I set from YouTube are not showing up. And when I set it to featured videos it seems my post type changes to number, how do I correct these thanks

I can’t seem to get any Youtube API key to work, always getting the same error:

{ “error”: { “errors”: [ { “domain”: “usageLimits”, “reason”: “ipRefererBlocked”, “message”: “The referrer https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=id&key=AIzaSyDZbPNPP-xgvaGK5U7e4Epc04Lntbw3GA4&chart=mostPopular does not match the referrer restrictions configured on your API key. Please use the API Console to update your key restrictions.”, “extendedHelp”: “https://console.developers.google.com/apis/credentials?project=33308775902” } ], “code”: 403, “message”: “The referrer https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=id&key=AIzaSyDZbPNPP-xgvaGK5U7e4Epc04Lntbw3GA4&chart=mostPopular does not match the referrer restrictions configured on your API key. Please use the API Console to update your key restrictions.” } }

Even with NO restrictions to the API …

What am I doing wrong ?