This Pluging Did Not Even Work!!!

  • I installed this plugin. Added shortcode as its documentation showed to a page and then put in the link in the shortcode to my video on YouTube. I saved the page and then viewed it and it just displayed the shortcode on the page. Give me a plugin that works out of the box.

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  • Plugin Author David Vongries

    (@davidvongries)

    @snivellysnort, I’m sorry for your frustration.

    The plugin definitely works – can you paste the shortcode here that you’ve added to your website? I’m happy to look into this for you.

    Please give us a chance to help resolve the issue – 1-star reviews always hurt a little bit but I’m sure we can get this to work! ??

    The plugin is used on over 10,000 WordPress installations with no issues.

    Best,
    David

    Doesnt work for we either.
    Shortcode didnt work and adding the class to the link didnt work either.
    No errors in console.
    Tested WordPress 5.5.3 running Uncode Child theme.

    Plugin Author David Vongries

    (@davidvongries)

    Hi @cecode01,

    can you paste the shortcode you’ve been using here?

    I remember some people had similar issues in the past because of wrong quotation marks for instance.

    Hi,

    I ended up using it like this:
    —

    <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxxxxx&rel=0&autoplay=1">text here</a>

[wp-video-popup hide-related="1" video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxxxxxx&rel=0&autoplay=1"]

    —
    All i wanted was to add the class “wp-video-popup” to the link.
    The shortcode doesn’t show anything but it probably initializes the functions so now the popup does work with the link.

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    Plugin Author David Vongries

    (@davidvongries)

    Hi @cecode01,

    Thank you for all the details.

    This should work:

    <a href="#" class="wp-video-popup">text here</a>
[wp-video-popup hide-related="1" video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxxxxxx"]

    . Just make sure to replace the xxxxxxxxx with your YouTube video ID.

    Please note that you don’t need to add autoplay=1 or any paramters to the video url itself. Those are being stripped out by the plugin. We add the autoplay parameter to all videos by default and other parameters can be handled through shortcode attributes – https://wp-video-popup.com/docs/usage/#attributes.

    Also, the trigger link must not directly link to the video.
    Instead, the href tag would simply be "#" as per my example above.

    The class to trigger the lightbox was missing from your example as well so I added it above.

    Hope that helps! ??

    Best,
    David

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