BaneD

Thank you @jdy98p for letting us know.

We do not have a full support for Elementor plugin, however the codes should work fine as long as the standard WordPress hooks are called. Any part of Elementor that gets executed through the Elementor specific hooks will just not work.

Now that said, even though we do not have full support for it, happy to look into this for you.

The difference between the v2 and v3 is that v3 (3.0 and 3.1) of our plugin have a slightly different approach to the shortcodes, including having the pre-rendered version of the code to be able to show up faster.

My guess would be that this is the cause, however without knowing more I can not be sure.

I am going to try to recreate it on my side and keep you updated what I find.

OK, I have created a post on our feedback here: https://feedback.ziggeo.com/wordpress/p/create-custom-capability-for-plugin-access I would suggest that you check it out and follow the same so you can know once it is available.

I would also just like to confirm that the above helped you and your editor can now see the plugin page(s)?

Hi, we are actually limiting per capabilities in order to only allow people that you have marked as allowed for editing options.

If interesting, this is set here: https://github.com/Ziggeo/ziggeo-wordpress-plugin/blob/master/admin/menu.php

It is also the same file where you could change the plugin on your side if you want to temporarily allow some account with lower capability to do this.

You can see the “manage_options” capability being used there, and you can see more about it here: https://www.ads-software.com/documentation/article/roles-and-capabilities/#manage_options

I think that “moderate_comments” might be a good substitute for this to allow someone with Editor account to have access to any specific pages you want. I will show you the steps for modifying the one for Video List page only, however same steps would apply for other pages as well.

1. You will need to modify the admin/menu.php file that is located in the plugin folder.
   * You can make this change through WordPress plugin editor, or through FTP. Please do note that if there is some error due to typo, it could bring your site down, so having FTP access would be a better approach.
2. Modify this line (82): https://github.com/Ziggeo/ziggeo-wordpress-plugin/blob/master/admin/menu.php#L82
   * Please be sure to use the above as reference as line numbers can be different across the plugin versions
3. Change
   ‘capability’ => ‘manage_options’,
   to
   ‘capability’ => ‘moderate_comments’,
4. Save the file (and upload if you are using FTP)
5. Refresh your page and it should immediately work

There are few notes I would like to add here:

a) Anyone with the Editor role will be able to see and modify things on those pages going forward

b) You can also provide single person with the additional capability such as manage_options – however this would allow them to see many other plugins that check for this specific role.

c) These steps will only work until the plugin is updated. Once updated you would need to do them again (line number might change).

Thinking about it, we could add a special role that you could attach to some user to provide them with the access without modifying anything. This would no longer require these steps even after updating plugin and would allow you to give only specific person. If this seems interesting please let us know and we can add it to our features request – or you can add it yourself so you are alerted once there are any status changes. This can be done here: https://feedback.ziggeo.com/wordpress

Great, thank you for letting us know.

I would mark this as resolved since the solution is available, however the goal for myself is to make checks to be sure this is not present in the v3.0. We are currently at the stage where we are testing everything and will update the docs, so perfect time to make sure there are not issues like this that get carried over.

Thank you for your time and looking forward to hearing from you again ??

Great thank you.

If I understood you correctly with the shortcode you sent now:

[ziggeoplayer video='TOKEN' width='100%' height='auto' playfullscreenonmobile='true' fullscreenmandatory='true' theme='default' themecolor='white' autoplay='true']

it is working and that the following one did not work:

[ziggeoplayer video='TOKEN' width='100%' height='auto' playfullscreenonmobile fullscreenmandatory theme='default' themecolor='white' autoplay]

PS: The values for theme color we have are “red”, “green” and “blue”. Any other value should fallback to the default grayish color and for the height to be set to auto value, it is best not to set it at all.

[ziggeoplayer video='TOKEN' width='100%' playfullscreenonmobile='true' fullscreenmandatory='true' theme='default' themecolor='blue' autoplay='true']

Great, glad it did work that way ??

Can you please let us know the shortcode here so that we can test with it? It is possible that (due to some bug or such) it was not seeing it properly, and had not applied the autoplay feature when “=true” was not present.

• Fine to remove the video token or app token from shortcode if present, just replace it with “TOKEN” or anything else.

Hi there, glad to hear from you again ??

The block of playback without muting the video is done by browsers so as to avoid having a page open with screaming loud music (or scream). While each browser does this differently, they generally allow the audio to be heard if there is some interaction with the page first. This is why autoplay is often muted at first.

Our system is designed to actually detect this and start automatically muted with the playback if the video would not play otherwise.

The battery related settings also plays some part in this. If you have tried opening the page with video that is running on a mobile device (including laptops here), then the power saving might actually stop the playback of the video before our system can mute it automatically, or if you leave your page open without interaction it might also suspend the playback.

As this is all part of OS and browser there is not much we can do about it.

• This is a very common thing on mobile devices running Mac OS or iOS.

With all that out of the way though, what you can do is to try setting this code directly into the page:

<ziggeoplayer ziggeo-video="YOUR_VIDEO_TOKEN" ziggeo-autoplay="true"></ziggeoplayer>

This would then allow you to see if there is anything specific to shortcode causing it or if it is same for our native embeddings (which is most likely the case).

Additionally I do want to say that position of the video and size of it can play a role – depending on the browser, however let’s first see if the video plays muted for you using the above code or not to know if something is wrong with shortcode.

That is a good question.

The new version is built with many different features combined like:

1. Lazy loading (which was a feature available through specific branch of our repo and is now included in main repo branch);
2. To include audio embeddings (audio recorder, audio player – not yet available)
3. Improved use of templates
4. More control over translations, etc.

At this time we do not have a defined ETA.

The codes available through our Github repo are however tested and used by some of our customers and are not considered beta, they are just not finalized with everything that was intended to be present.

Hi there,

Can you please let me know if you are using the plugin version from here (WordPress org), or from our Github Repo (https://github.com/Ziggeo/ziggeo-wordpress-plugin)?

While ideally you would use this one, the Github one has different updates made to it as we prepare it for v3.0 release.

Both versions should be stable as they are.

The Github version includes:

1. The fix for pagination so that all videos can be shown (your case as well as when there are over 100 videos)
2. Fix for Enter keypress which could submit the page, now it starts the serach
3. Confirmation of removal of videos instead of just removing it on click of button

Do let us know how it goes.

Hi there,

The Fullscreen API offered by browsers is provided “as available”, which means it is up to the browser if it is possible to use it or not.

That said, next to playfullscreenonmobile set as true, you can also try using fullscreenmandatory also set as true.

It will ask the browser to provide fullscreen option in cases when it (the browser) does not allow us to show our own control for the same.

If it does not change anything for you, you can send us a link to a page on your website either here or through our support ticket ([email protected]) system so we can check it and see if there is anything else that we could recommend.

Hi there,

Sorry for the wait, I seem to have missed the email notification.

Since you already have a support ticket opened on our side and since WPForms is supported through our other plugin (that is not yet on WordPress repo) I would recommend continuing talking through the support thread instead.

Thank you for your understanding.
Bane

Great, thank you. Looking at it I see why it was not passed over.

Any time you are using key instead of token, you have to prefix it in code with underscore.

Key is basically a value that you choose, while token is system generated unique string. We use this for media (video, audio, images) as well as for profiles. So if your video profile is named: “hd_profile” in dashboard, you would use it in your shortcode or within the player or recorder as “_hd_profile”.

Please try this:
[ziggeouploader video-profile='_hd_profile' width='100%' faceoutline='false' custom-covershots='true']

* I have removed some parameters where default values are same as what you set in shortcode, it is fine to add them back if you wanted.

I would like to point out that the apostrophe marks that you used above are not apostrophes rather a nicer way of showing the same. They are known to cause issues (not specific to our plugin). It is possible that they were turned that way after posting here, just thought to point out.

Do try it and let us know how it goes, and then we can help you with custom covershots as well.

Hi there,

I apologize for the wait.

Can you please post the shortcode for your video recorder here to check how it looks and what might be happening?

Hi there ??

Glad to hear that you got it all set up.

Going forward it might be best to open new support tickets (here or on our support side – [email protected]) for different things, just to be able to use these as helpful reference for everyone searching for something specific ??

For some reason I can’t use the “Delete” icon in the video list. Is there a way to activate that?

This is intentional. The reason is that by default it is only possible that you delete the videos. The method our Video List is using now is by the use of client side calls, which are not as safe as server side ones. Well safe, just not safe for delete requests.

So this by default requires the use of auth token (recommended) or to disable the checks (not recommended).

So to use the auth token, you need to do 2 things:
1. Create auth token
2. Add it to WordPress so it is used.

OK, so auth tokens are described here: https://ziggeo.com/docs/api/authorization-tokens/ so you can check it out to see more about what they offer.

To create, the easiest is for you to:
1. Log into your Ziggeo account
2. Go into the application that you will be using
3. Then click on the Auth Tokens in the sub menu (on the left)
4. Click the + button on this page
5. Remove the date if any is present and just leave all fields blank
6. Under Grants just replace “read” with “destroy” so your grants look like this:

{
  "destroy": {"all": true}
}

7. Click on Save button
8. Now copy the value that is shown under “Token”.

Now second step is much easier. Just paste the token you got from above steps into the WordPress plugin settings. For this you would:
1. Log into your WordPress admin
2. Click on the plugin Settings (just above the Videos List)
3. Go to Experts Settings tab
4. Paste the token into the field called “Ziggeo Server Auth Token”
5. Click on Save.

Once you do, just head over to Videos List page, refresh and the remove button will work. It will utilize the server side auth token and attempt to remove the video. If all is good, you will see the video turn red and get removed from your Dashboard.

If not, I suggest writing to [email protected] so that we can check it out for you (for example we can not share tokens here).

And also, what do I need to add to the shortcode to force the HD version to be played by default?

Our docs show this in more details: https://ziggeo.com/docs/how-tos/javascript/recording-hd-videos/

For WordPress template, you would need to provide it with ‘video-profile’ parameter (both creation and setup is explained on the link above).

Once it is set that would be it ??

If the videos are already set as HD in your account (HD streams are available), then you can add stream-height and set it to 720 for example so that our player finds the 720 stream and plays that one (or closest one if 720 is not available).

* You will need video profiles set up first

And will there be an option to “Download” a video from the Video List page in the next release?

Not yet, however it is very simple to add new things to our list by going to https://feedback.ziggeo.com and adding any new cool features that you would like to see ??

* This is best way to add features that we did not yet have in a plan, so it is easy for others to upvote and us to pick up and add.
* That said, the videos can be downloaded, just not from the Videos List page.

PS: I am marking this as resolved as we resolved the videos not showing originally, and we do welcome you to write to us here in new threads or directly to our email ??

How to I use a template in on a page/post? Say I created a template ID “video_player”.

In our Github repository a new version of this is already available which will be used in future, however it is not yet completely updated with everything we had planned. So I will tell you what is available for version 2.12 and earlier.

You could:

1. Set the default codes

Go to Settings and set the field Ziggeo Player Config with the value of your player template. This would then be used to create all of your players with the same code even if you do not specific the template.

Using any of the above codes would then find the defaults and apply them.

2. Use the template itself

[ziggeoplayer video_player]

* You can add the above to both pages, posts or custom post types, it should convert it to the player.

And do you know why the player only shows/plays 2min on WP of the 38min video I uploaded?

That should not be the case, however it might happen due to some setting. The easiest to validate is if you try playing it on Videos List page. There should be the same as in your Dashboard.

I would suggest reaching out about this over [email protected] instead, since in most cases we would need to check your page or the video itself to be able to tell you more specific info. If shared here anyone can see the same, while in ticket you would only share it to us.