Ok, I think I’m getting it. This isn’t really something my plugin can do, but it is something you can do to your theme using built-in WordPress functions. Both of these solutions will require editing your theme. I suggest creating a child theme so you can continue to get updated versions of the parent theme. My assumption is that on your site you always have one video attached to one post.
For the duration thumbnail overlay, find the part of your theme that displays the thumbnails, copy that file and put it in your child theme’s directory. Find the part of that file that outputs code like this <div class="image-holder"> and immediately after that, add this code. You’ll have to determine whether you’re in PHP or HTML mode and whether you need to echo the code or not, since I don’t have access to your theme files. This assumes that we’re in the loop and the global $post variable is available to us.
THIS CODE HAS NOT BEEN TESTED AND YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO TROUBLESHOOT CODE AND EXPECT TO HAVE YOUR SITE GO DOWN WHILE YOU ARE WORKING ON IT.
<?php
$args = array(
'numberposts' => 1,
'post_mime_type' => 'video',
'post_parent' => $post->ID,
'post_status' => null,
'post_type' => 'attachment',
);
$video_attachments = get_posts($args);
if ( $video_attachments ) { //if there's a video attached to this post
foreach ( $video_attachments as $video ) {
$attachment_meta = wp_get_attachment_metadata($video->ID);
if ( is_array($attachment_meta) && array_key_exists('length_formatted', $attachment_meta) ) { //if WordPress knows the duration of your video
echo '<span class="duration-overlay">'.$attachment_meta['length_formatted'].'</span>';
break; //only get one duration
}
}
}
?>
Add this to the style.css file in your child theme
.duration-overlay {
display: inline-block;
position: absolute;
bottom: 4px;
left: 5px;
padding: 3px;
color: white;
line-height: 11pt;
font-size: 9pt;
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.6);
border-radius: 4px;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 3px white;
}
This other thing should save you a lot of time. Find the part of your theme that outputs the $post->post_content in single posts. Above that, add this code:
<?php echo do_shortcode('[KGVID][/KGVID]'); ?>
This will automatically embed any videos attached to the post and you don’t have to put any shortcode in the post content window.
