Video thumbnail issues(content.php)

I installed a plugin “video thumbnails” to help me automatically display the thumbnail of a video when the content is a video. Reason for this is because I have a list of categories on top of my page that will show the latest post thumbnail in that category.

obviously I would like to display a thumbnail of the video post for the video category.

everything works just fine except when you go to the post itself it will show the video thumbnail, and the video content. I want it to just show the video content when you see the post.

originally my content.php handling this looked like this.

<article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>

		<header class="entry-header">  
 		<?php the_title( sprintf('<h2 class="entry-title"><a href="%s">', esc_url( get_permalink() ) ),'</a></h2>' ); ?>  
 		  <center><H3><?php the_time('F j, Y'); ?></H3></center>
 		  
 	</header>  
 	  
 	<div class="row">  
 		  
 		<?php if( has_post_thumbnail() ): ?>  
 		  
 			
 				<div class="thumbnail" style="width:100%;"><?php the_post_thumbnail('large'); ?></div>  
 			
 				<?php the_content(); ?>  
 			
 		  
 		<?php else: ?>  
 		  
 			
 				<?php the_content(); ?>
 			
 		  
 		<?php endif; ?>  
 	</div>  
   
 </article> 

I did some switching around and now it looks like this

<article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>

		<header class="entry-header">  
 		<?php the_title( sprintf('<h2 class="entry-title"><a href="%s">', esc_url( get_permalink() ) ),'</a></h2>' ); ?>  
 		  <center><H3><?php the_time('F j, Y'); ?></H3></center>
 		  
 	</header>  
 	  
 	<div class="row">  
 		  
 		<?php if( has_post_thumbnail() ): ?>  
 		  
 			
 				
 			
 				<?php the_content(); ?>  
 			
 		  
 		<?php else: ?>  
 		  
 			
 				<div class="thumbnail" style="width:100%;"><?php the_post_thumbnail('large'); ?></div>  
 			
 		  
 		<?php endif; ?>  
 	</div>  
   
 </article> 

Great! now the video content shows instead of both the thumbnail and the video. even the top listed categories shows just the post thumbnail like I wanted it.

only one issue. all the thumbnails of my non-video posts do not show.

how can I fix this so that if I have a video. the post will show just the video content
while still showing thumbnails from non-video content posts?

Quick note: I fully understand I can create a Content-Video.php template and when I want a video I can set it to that template and it will solve all my issues. However, I do not want to have to manually set it to that template. I would like content.php to handle all of this for me.

• This topic was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by juicyjuke.