Get Related Posts to Search for Images From Custom Field?

  • Resolved cluley7

    (@cluley7)


    4 years, 6 months ago

    Hi,

    I’m trying to work out how and where to modify the Jetpack Related Posts module so that it will show Youtube thumbnails from a standard URL.

    On the linked page of my site, you can see that I have installed a ‘featured video’ feature at the top of the post. This is generated by inputting the URL in a custom field ‘video_url’ on the post editor. (I used this method)

    I understand that I need to extract the YT video ID to get a thumbnail via their api as well. But I am a novice with PHP and am struggling to fit all the pieces together. I notice that JP Related Posts will already pickup a YT thumbnail from an embedded video within the post – I am assuming it does this when looking through the Gutenberg blocks?

    How would I modify the Jetpack module so that it would also look for the URL of this custom field, then feed it back to get a thumbnail?

    Whilst I have an understanding, I am still a novice, so any help would be greatly appreciated!

    Note: The example link shows 3 related posts, 2 have ‘featured videos’: I want the left-most one to grab a thumbnail from the youtube ‘featured video’ on that post, the middle one has a thumbnail from an embedded video – but again I want to take it from the featured video, the third is a standard image which works great!

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by cluley7.

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  • Plugin Support supernovia

    (@supernovia)

    Hi, I’m not aware of a built-in way to handle that, but have you considered using another plugin to automatically get featured images from videos?

    Thread Starter cluley7

    (@cluley7)

    On first thought that’s not a bad idea, I’m sure something exists to do exactly that.

    However, I think I would still struggle to deliver the said image to jetpack related posts, without embedding it in the post.

    Many thanks for your reply!

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