Frontend Posts Do Not Generate Video Thumbnails

Hello!

I’ve read through the forums for this particular issue and I’ve found very similar topics to mine:

– [Plugin: Video Thumbnails] fetching video thumbnails upon frontend post creation

– Get Video Thumbnails when the post is scheduled

– Get thumbnail when saving draft

– Video Thumbnails with Front End publishing

I have created a form for users to submit video URLs on the frontend but once they submit the form (it’s submitted as a published custom post type), the post type publishes but without a video thumbnail. In order to generate the thumbnail, I have to update the post on the backend.

I’ve tried placing the following code snippets into my functions.php file and in the plugin video-thumbnail.php file (as suggested in the above topics) but nothing works for me:

– update_post_meta( $the_post_id, ‘_videoembed’, $video_url); with get_video_thumbnail($the_post_id);

– add_action(‘save_post’, ‘save_other_video_thumbnail’, 100, 1);
function save_other_video_thumbnail($post_id) {
$postdata = get_postdata($post_id);
if ($postdata[‘post_status’] == ‘future’) {
get_video_thumbnail($post_id);}}

– // Add actions to save video thumbnails when saving Draft
add_action(‘save_post’, ‘save_draft_video_thumbnail’, 100, 1);
function save_draft_video_thumbnail($post_id) {
$postdata = get_postdata($post_id);
if ($postdata[‘post_status’] == ‘draft’) {
get_video_thumbnail( $post_id );}}

Can someone please help me? I absolutely love this plugin and quite frankly it’s one of the few video plugins that does exactly what I need it to do. I do apologize for being long-winded but I obviously don’t know what I’m doing. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

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