File Name Structure

It’s largely just the random video ID for the file name and whatever the file type is.

For example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcknRp0jVtY

turned into:

/2023/07/YcknRp0jVtY.jpg

In terms of settings, there’s not really any in terms of UI, but I know there’s some filters available if needed. It’s kind of meant to be a self maintaining plugin that tries to get the highest resolution/quality image that a given video provides.

There is some ajax/bulk/wp-cli options to help with mass processing, but those don’t really have settings either.

Thanks for the help.

I noticed that when I posted a youtube link, that if there is even one image (for instance, this is how I post, with a channel link above the youtube link: https://cinewars.news/children-of-the-corn-official-trailer/) the featured image isn’t called. Is there a way around this or should I move the channel link image below the youtube link?

The plugin only works with individual video URLs, so if you’re posting a youtube URL to a channel in general, it’s probably not going to find anything.

Regarding display of featured images in the theme/frontend, we don’t handle anything with that. Our plugin is meant just to fetch the generated preview images, upload to your media library, and then assign that new upload to the featured image for the post it was pasted into. Template implementation is still on the user and the active theme.

Thanks again,

I’ve streamlined my posts templates to have the YT url first and then a channel link underneath.

This solved the problem and Featured Images are brought in from YT

Great plugin, very effective.

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• This reply was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by CineWars. Reason: spelling fix