[Plugin: Video Thumbnails] Thumbs stopped working?…

Can you try replacing video-thumbnails.php with this version and let me know if it fixes the problem?

If it doesn’t, for now I’d recommend going back to version 1.7.6 until I can find what is causing the problem.

Also, how are you embedding the videos?

I replaced the file and tried to add a new video… no thumbnail still.

Earlier today I went back to 1.7.6 and it still didn’t work. ??

The video theme I’m working with has ‘video pages’… much like posts.

If downgrading doesn’t solve the problem then the timing with the update must have been a coincidence, are you copying and pasting the embed code from YouTube or just using the video’s URL? I’m trying to recreate the problem so the more details the better.

I tend to agree with the first part of your last reply, but I can’t think of anything else I changed.

Copying the old embed code; that method worked with the rest of them. Can I hire you to take a look inside? haha

For some reason the plugin just stopped being able to find vimeo thumbnails. Keeps saying “We didn’t find a video thumbnail for this post.”

Here’s my vimeo embed code:
<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/20249114?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe>

I’m running the latest version 1.8 of the plugin.

Thanks,

How many videos are you dealing with? The Vimeo API has a rate limit, so you might have exceeded this limit. Try again after a few hours.

Just dealing with 1 video on 1 post. In my most recent post for the day… Also I just tried again and it’s been about 4 hours since last attempt.

Ok so I figured it out…. It turns out that if I have the custom field defined in the plugin settings it overrides the plugin’s ability to search the post content for the video url.

What is happening with my site specifically is that I have a custom post type for my video portfolio that uses a custom field for my video URLs however for my site’s blog I am simply pasting in the vimeo embed code directly into the post content. My reasoning behind doing it this way is two fold, (1) I wanted videos on my blog to appear in RSS readers and (2) I wanted videos in my portfolio to appear with a very specific layout.

Not sure if you have any ideas for a better solution than each time I write a blog post having to go into the plugin settings to remove the defined custom field and then when I want to post a portfolio video having to go back into the plugin settings to redefine the custom field.

I wonder if you could have a check box on the write post page that asks “pull from custom field”. I’m even thinking it could be cool to extend the plugin a little further by having the ability to define multiple custom field values in the plugin settings so that then on the write post page in the dialogue box there would be a drop-down to able to choose what source to pull the video thumbnail from, that being post content, custom field A, custom field B, etc…. THAT WOULD BE SICK!

Thanks ??