Hi,
Pro support is offered via private ticket system which is available from your CodeFlavors account at this address: https://account.codeflavors.com/tickets/
Since you’re addressing question referring to the PRO add-on I suggest you open support tickets at the address above. I will answer your questions here but please close this thread and ask your questions via the PRO support ticket system, simply because my answers won’t be relevant for users of basic version.
1) I thought I could import a showcase directly to a page (I am using blocks right now but I could switch to classic). So far it seems only separate posts to a page or post.
Vimeotheque doesn’t embed lists of videos from Vimeo into posts as other plugins do. Instead, it imports the videos as WordPress posts which can be used as single entities into your website; this allows for better SEO and, depending on your project, you can create lessons or private content for your membership website.
It implements 3 blocks: a video position block, which is the actual video embed made into the post for each video post, a video embed block, which allows you to embed a certain video post previously created by Vimeotheque into any post or page from your website and third, a playlist block which allows you to embed lists of video posts already imported by Vimeotheque into any of your posts or pages.
The blocks are described here” https://docs.vimeotheque.com/category/block-editor/
A video showing the playlist block in action can be viewed here: https://docs.vimeotheque.com/video/playlist-block-editor/
2) So I tried this way: Automatic and nothing happened, but now I am getting a message PLAYLIST US TRIP can be imported in 00:21. Nothing happened. I clicked UPDATE now but nothing happened. The message re@eated itself about Playlist can be updated in 00:21….
I put that on pause and tried another way–>
Some aspects that need explaining about the automatic imports:
a. The imports are triggered by your website visitors; this means that you must either click the “Update” button under automatic import to trigger the imports OR someone must visit your website which in turn will trigger the import to run in background.
b> If video from the list were already imported, the plugin will skip them, otherwise, they will be imported. Of great help to debug any issues with imports is the debug add-on: https://docs.vimeotheque.com/debug-add-on/
I suggest you install and activate it in order to understand why nothing happens when you run the importer.
3) Import Videos by default order. (replace featured image–I don’t have any featured image. Then SELECT EACH ONE and they are added.
PROBLEM ONE–> IT just adds a list of posts with one video each. I realize I can now create a showcase on a page but each time I import this way i just get a lot of posts and it is hard to see the new ones.
Again, Vimeotheque doesn’t work like other plugins, it creates a WordPress post for each video. Its purpose is to help you create content on your website that you can use, for example, in membership plugins or lesson plugins.
One way to categorize the videos is by using categories when doing the import and next, use those categories in playlists that you display on your website.
`4) Anyway, I now go to pages and create a sample page Vimeotheque test
Add video Playlist block and select videos. Ok–> Success.
https://www.paularenson.org/vimeothequeeque/
PROBLEM TWO–> Hmmm, even though I had lazy loading and colors checked, nothing shows up on this page.
Lazy loading works only when embedding a single video. The playlist block needs the video player loaded so it can change the video when the navigation is clicked.
PROBLEM THREE…The order was supposed to be default but somehow the very bottom video on Vimeo is the very top one here. The others are in the right order.
Results are returned by the Vimeo API; I can’t say why this happens unless I can test and determine the issue. For example, another user had a problem with the video publishing date which was showing something in his Vimeo account and when queried using the API, Vimeo was returning a different date.
PROBLEM FOUR I wonder if there are other formats like sliders, or is the only option a list? Hmmm I see this here now but I can’t find it. Maybe I have to install an add on?
https://vimeotheque.com/how-to-make-wordpress-video-gallery/
There are 3 formats for now: Default, Wall and Carousel. Please see this: https://docs.vimeotheque.com/playlist-block/ and this: https://docs.vimeotheque.com/video/playlist-block-editor/
Now I want to see if there is a way to directly add a showcase.
In your initial post you mentioned you’re coming from Vimeography. Vimeotheque does things differently, it doesn’t work like Vimeography.
One thing you could try to quickly add a showcase is to use categories:
1. In WordPress, create a new category under “Videos”;
2. Import some videos and put them into the category you created at step 1 (you can assign the category when you make the import)
3. Add the playlist block to a page or post;
4. When choosing the video posts that should go into the playlist, instead of choosing them individually, choose to show from the category you created at step 1. To do this, when you open the modal window to choose the videos that should go into the playlist, go directly to tab “Selected” and from the categories list on the right choose the category that you want to display.
5. Next, whenever you add new videos to the category, Vimeotheque will display them into the playlist block you set to show from that category.
