Mattia Roccoberton

With cfi_featured_image or cfi_featured_image_url, using cat_id parameter:

cfi_featured_image( array( 'size' => 'large', 'title' => 'This is a test...', 'class' => 'my-image', 'alt' => 'My image', 'cat_id' => 123 ) );

Hi whatsupskip.
That format is the result of serialize:
https://php.net/manual/en/function.serialize.php
WP uses it automatically while saving options.

I suggest you to unserialize the data before any modification to see the fields, reproduce it in PHP, do your changes there and then serialize it again before putting in the DB.

Hello Jigna.
My plugin can work with any device that has an URL with the current live image (usually JPEG). I don’t know the specific devices, you have to look for informations on the product manual / on the web / with the device tech support.

Hi nordicned.

– My plugin works with WP 4.3.1 – my website has the same version with a working demo page:
https://blocknot.es/home/testing/wp-netcam-plugin/

– If your netcam requires authentication you could have problems to public the live stream because it is protected. You can try to pass it in the URL, but it will work only if the device support Basic Authetication
ex. https://username:password@netcamip/jpeg_url

– The last part of the URL depends on your device, it is usually different from brand to brand. You need to find the correct JPEG URL of your device (looking for online, looking in the manual of the device, contacting the producer, etc.)

Hi Fabio G.
Sorry for the late reply.
My plugin doesn’t support RTSP streams, as exposed in the description it needs a single JPEG url to tue current live image.
To embed an RTSP stream on a web page you probably need a plugin of some kind (like an ActiveX / Flash component / Silverlight object / Java Applet / etc.)

Hi audball_brian.
Visual Composer is not a free plugin, right? I can’t test it personally.
My plugin uses the standard WordPress functions to show the Featured Image; I don’t know what the Visual Composer does internally, sorry.

Thank you for your comment pandammonium!
It’s always nice to receive a good review about my plugin.

Hi vl4d.
Currently setting the image using an URL is not supported.
The “standard way” to select an image with WordPress is using the Media Library component because it offers a lot of convenient functions like generating different sizes of the image.
With a direct URL I should take care of the size of the image and I should offer a responsive element to host the image. This is beyond the purpose of this plugin.
But in the Media Library component \ Upload Files \ Select Files \ filename text field you can paste an external URL, the browser will download the image in a temp directory and it will proceed with the upload.
I hope this can help you.

Hello Joao.
Yes, I plan to upgrade to the 1.0 Polymer Library. But as you wrote there are a lot of changes.
The main problem I found is that there are too many elements (Iron, Gold, Neon, etc.). I can’t include them all or the size of the plugin will be huge.
I’m thinking to a dynamic way to include remote elements or to download them. But it gets complicated.
So I don’t think I will do this update soon…

Hi tinuviel.
Sorry for late reply.
google-analytics component… currently this is not supported by my plugin; there are many changes with the latest Polymer library and I’m looking for a good way to import them without creating a huge plugin.

Hi Antoine.
Currently my plugin doesn’t support custom taxonomies because they use specific events (actions / filters) that depends on the slug name of the category.
I will try to include this feature in future but it will not be soon. Sorry.

Hi Rhinmass.
You can set the image in the Edit category page, then it will appear where the designer of the team put the featured image. If you try the standard WP themes you can see it easily.
I have just made a test with the “Responsive” theme and my plugin, it shows the feat img in the category page (ex. /category/category_name) but not inside a post, I suppose that they use a different method than the standard one.

Of course, it’s a static image.
How could it change if it is always the same file?

Almost every netcam has an internal URL that offers a single image from the live. If you open it in the browser directly you will see an image, if you refresh the browser you will see another image, etc.
You have to use that URL with my plugin.

For example for an Axis device see the last part of this page:
https://www.axis.com/support/faq/FAQ30473

Hi Margaret.
Sorry if I reply so late.
WP 4.2.2 is not a problem, in my website I have the same version and it works.
Here is my testing page (using the same line I wrote in the plugin page):
https://www.blocknot.es/home/testing/wp-netcam-plugin/
The problem is probably somewhere else…

Hi Brad.
Please open a new thread for your problem.
By the way, I think that you are using the wrong URL for the netcam – my plugin needs to be pointed to a single image (usually JPEG) of the live stream.