[Plugin: External Videos] A way to have multiple galleries based on Categories?

Can you explain what the difference would be between the different galleries? Would they contain different videos or just a different ordering?

The short code already has a feature [external-videos feature=”embed”] which allows to just display the very latest video. So, there is already a means to give it parameters. What parameters are you after?

First off, I am really impressed with how quickly you responded to my message. Thank you.

I’m trying to have multiple pages on my website displaying videos. I have one with everything, but would also like to have pages with specific types of videos. For example a page just display testimonials apart from other topics. It looks to me like the mechanism for storing videos also allows for those videos to have their own categories. I just don’t see any way to access that stored information to tell the plugin to only show a certain category on a page.

Does that make sense?

Thank you for your time and have a great day.

I solved my own problem by adding the following to your ev-shortcode file. It seemed to work great. Thank you for such a nice plugin.

} else if ( $feature == 'testimonials' ) {

  // extract the videos for the gallery
    $params = array(
	  'cat'=>60,
      'posts_per_page' => 20,
      'post_type'      => 'external-videos',
      'post_status'    => 'publish',
	  'order' => 'DESC',
    );
    $old_params = $wp_query->query;
    $params['paged'] = $old_params['paged'];
    query_posts($params);

    // display the gallery
    display_gallery($width, $height);

Nice one! I’m going to do some work over the next month on the plugin and maybe I can add this generally as a feature.

I’d like to use that code, but I don’t know where exactly in the file I should put it. Could any of you help me?

P.S. I love this plugin!

HI Jhaten,

I’m trying to modify the ev-shortcode.php, can you please tell me where exactly did you add your lines?

thanks!

You add it to the end of the following if statement:

if ( $feature == 'embed' ) {
    $params = array(
      'posts_per_page' => 1,
      'post_type'      => 'external-videos',
      'post_status'    => 'publish',
    );
    query_posts($params);
    if ( have_posts() ) {
      // extract the video for the feature
      the_post();
      $videourl  = get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), 'video_url');
      $video = trim($videourl[0]);
      // get oEmbed code
      $oembed = new WP_Embed();
      $html = $oembed->shortcode(null, $video);
      // replace width with 600, height with 360
      $html = preg_replace ('/width="\d+"/', 'width="'.$width.'"', $html);
      $html = preg_replace ('/height="\d+"/', 'height="'.$height.'"', $html);

      // just print the embed code for the newest video
      echo $html;
    }

Good luck. I afraid I can’t help you any further. Silvia created a great plugin and I found customizing it pretty easy once she pointed me in a direction. Hopefully you will find the same to be true.

J

I’d like a little expanding on this if possible, what I would like is to have 1 gallery separated by the different categories.

I attempted to use the code jhaten posted, but I’m sure I did something wrong.

else if ( $feature == 'testimonials' ) {

Is the ($feature == ‘testimonials’) referring to the category name?

Hi, first of all thanks to Silvia for great plugin.
I had the same category problem I used the code from jhanten with a little improvement to use custom category based on category name, the code is:

after line 46:
'cat' => '',
to inizialize the parameter.

And at the closure of “embed” if:

else if ( empty($cat) == false ) {
		$cat_id = get_cat_id($cat);
	    // extract the videos for the gallery
		$params = array(
		  'cat'=>$cat_id,
		  'posts_per_page' => 50,
		  'post_type'      => 'external-videos',
		  'post_status'    => 'publish',
		  'order' => 'DESC',
		);
		$old_params = $wp_query->query;
		$params['paged'] = $old_params['paged'];
		query_posts($params);

		// display the gallery
		display_gallery($width, $height);
  }

In this way I can use [external-videos cat=’category name’].

I’ve used the modified plugin here:
https://www.hwalmoodo.it/?page_id=244
https://www.hwalmoodo.it/?p=418

Thanks, I hope this helps.

Thank you so much!!! That worked!

BIG thanks to Silvia for this great plugin, and thanks to francodag & jhanten for the adjustments!

yes, great work francodag – I’ll include it in the next release if that’s ok