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Best regards,
Kevin

I just got to looking into this and I wasn’t able to reproduce the issue. Is this still an issue for you? When I use the Vimeo URL on my local and public WordPress test sites, the thumbnail shows as expected. Do you have a link to a page where I can see the thumbnail not showing?

Hi @sanfordandson, have you clicked the “Update Posts” button at the bottom of the admin page? It is located next to the “Save Changes” button and clicking that button is required once so that already published blog posts receive the lazy-loading behavior.

This is described in the installation details but easily missed: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/lazy-load-for-videos/#installation

I tried this myself using the publicly available Astra theme (https://de.www.ads-software.com/themes/astra/) and videos are working for me.

Let’s use this one: https://www.kweber.com/

Hi @jaime-rojas, thanks for reporting this and I’m glad you were able to share the information you shared. Can you share the Vimeo URL you’re using on your site? I’d like to reproduce the issue but don’t have a Vimeo premium account myself.

Hi,
I highly doubt that this issue is related to the latest plugin update. The shown thumbnail is using a valid Vimeo image URL (https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/1239621069_295x166), not something “custom” provided by the plugin. My best guess would be that since the last update, you either updated the blog post or clicked the “Update All Posts” button” – which would clear the Vimeo oembed cache – or the existing cached image expired. All those cases may result in a new image being fetched from the Vimeo API, and it looks like the image has changed. I am surprised about the thumbnail; it doesn’t seem very appropriate for the video but I don’t see how the recent plugin change would result in such a difference.
– Kevin

Great to hear that you’re happy with the solution. Please consider leaving a review if you haven’t done so yet here

Hi,

thank you for reporting this issue. I just published a fix with version v2.16.2. Please click the “Update Posts” button at the bottom of the plugin’s admin page to clear the embed caches and apply the fix to already published blog posts. The change won’t show immediately in the Gutenberg editor but it should show on the page with the published blog post as soon as the caches are cleared or the post has been manually updated (which also clears embed cache but only for just that specific post).

Best regards,
Kevin

Hi,

you can change what video previews look like by updating the “Thumbnails/Patterns” option on the plugin’s admin page. If you change it to one of the patterns or select “none”, there will no longer be a preview image and therefore no call to Youtube. Does this work for you?

There’s currently no feature built into the plugin that would allow you to upload a custom preview image and thereby circumvent the call to Youtube.

– Kevin

As I said, I verified it works on a normal WordPress theme on my own WordPress blog. I also verified this in code: Query params aren’t being stripped from the URL; the hl query param should stay as part of the URL, so I think it has to do with either Divi, your theme or some other plugin. You can try it out using a non-Divi theme and see if it works. At this point I don’t see how I could fix this for you unfortunately. You could ask some other developer to look at your WordPress setup and figure out what exactly is causing the issue.

What version of the plugin are you using? Make sure to use the latest version. If you just updated the plugin version, try the page in an incognito window or clear your browser cache to make sure your pages loads the latest JavaScript.

For me, it works. I tested the following URL in a regular WordPress Youtube Embed block: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5d3g4bBASM&feature=oembed&rel=0&hl=da

Maybe Divi modifies the URL somehow but then I can’t do much about it. I don’t have Divi and can’t test this scenario.

Great, thank you for confirming. Please consider giving a review for this plugin if you haven’t done so already here.

This is such an odd bug! Thanks for the patience and for providing a link to a page where I can see the issue happening. It wouldn’t be possible to debug such an issue otherwise.

In Don’s case, it looks like the addition of the “nv-iframe-embed” CSS class and its associated stylings might be causing the issue. That class must be added by either your theme or by some other video/iframe/embed plugin for whatever reason.

I made a change that ensures the styling of the iframe is the same as what you would have once the window resizes. Hopefully that fixes it: Please download the latest version that I just published, v2.16.1, and open the page in an incognito window (or clear the browser cache) and let me know if the issue is fixed.

Hi Aaron, I just published v2.16.0 with a fix for your issue. Can you verify that it’s fixed? You’ll need to click the “Update Posts” button at the bottom of the plugin’s admin page to refresh the embed code of all existing video embeds.