[Plugin: NGG Video Extend] Videos not loading

Update: In the meantime I tried and deactivated all plugins and ran WP in the default theme. Still, the NGGVE reacts the same.

The only custom code left active was in the header.php, for the Supersizer background. COuld that be it?

Update 2 (Won’t surprise me if I solve it myself in the end. Haha):

The plot thickens: I went to the Shadowbox support pages and one of the developers placed some sample code for Youtube embedding. I copied that same exact code into a text widget, linking to above mentioned Youtube video. And it works perfectly! So this excludes incompatibility with any of the plugins or script.

Here is the code:
<a title="Part 1" rel="shadowbox;width=640;height=385" href="https://www.youtube.com/v/FkbqYHZxzn0?fs=1"><img src="https://img.youtube.com/vi/FkbqYHZxzn0/1.jpg" alt="Part 1" width="75" height="75" />

Could the problem be with the shortcode, maybe?

Allright, the problem is with the js file. It tries to do some jQuery replacements on the href, title and rel attributes.

I placed alerts all through the code, and I can confirm it finds what it is supposed to find, it picks up the attributesa nd shows them in the alerts, but when they should be replaced by the new values, Ican again see in the alerts that it went successful, but in the HTML output nothing happened…

To be more exact: href and title don’t get replaced in the HTML, and I end up with two rel attributes. Below the HTML output (stylized for readability):

<a
	title="<strong>Vimeo movie</strong> - [nggvid]https://player.vimeo.com/video/20759609[/nggvid]Some text"
	href="https://moc.directactief.nl/wp-content/gallery/duikfotos-2011/funnydiver.jpg"
	rel="shadowbox[post-112];player=img;"
	rel="shadowbox[set_3]"
>
	<img
		title="Vimeo movie"
		alt="Vimeo movie"
		src="https://moc.directactief.nl/wp-content/gallery/duikfotos-2011/thumbs/thumbs_funnydiver.jpg"
		width="110"
		height="110" /
	>
</a>

BTW, that rel parameter, ‘player=img’, is set by the Shadowbox plugin, and so I’m left with two rel parameters, as you can see. Could it be a version conflict between the latest versions of Shadowbox and NGG Video Extend? I’m at wits end. I try hard to understand what exactly is going on, but have too little knowledge of jQuery and JS.

I cracked it. At last!

It was my own bloody fault, but I’d like to share it with you, as this is probably a very common mistake-a-to-make-a.

I love NextGen Gallery, but wasn’t happy with the fact that the Lightbox Gallery didn’t show any captions with the pictures. So I introduced them myself, by altering the …/view/gallery.php code. By that I influenced the behavior on the “title” parameter. The very thing that triggers the NGGVE plugin to work properly.

By defaulting back to the original file, your wonderful plugin worked rightaway.

This issue taught me to document everything, and I mean EVERYTHING (because it’s always the little things you forget), and to leave the core files alone, whenever possible.

Well, this has been a very interesting exercise in self-support. Thanks for giving me a stage ??

Chris