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Oh, I also modified 16am’s code so that it would only display the iframe if there is a video in the post.

function catch_video() {
  global $post, $posts;
  $first_vid = '';
  ob_start();
  ob_end_clean();
  $output = preg_match_all('/<iframe.+src=[\'"]([^\'"]+)[\'"].*>/i', $post->post_content, $matches);
  $first_vid = $matches [1] [0];

  if ($output == '1') {
  echo '<iframe width="450" height="310" src="';
  echo $first_vid;
  echo '" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>';
  }
}

16am that code worked great for me, thanks!

rustbuckle: paste that echo catch_video() snippit in your template files where you want the video to display. In the loop means the part of template that renders your posts. It’s a larger discussion than I’ll have here, but for more info read: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/The_Loop

you’ll find the loop in different template files depending on the theme you are using, but a good place to look is the front-page.php file. Your theme might call the loop here and then from within the loop call get_template_part( ‘content’ ). This indicates that the loop looks for the content.php template file and renders it over and over (looping), once for each post until you have displayed all of the posts.

In my case I pasted echo catch_video() into a special template file that I’m using to render only my sticky posts. The sticky posts are using excerpt’s and featured images to display a quick version of the post on the front-page, and I wanted the video to display there. This special template file I’m using is called from the loop on front-page.php with this line: get_template_part( ‘content’, ‘issticky’ );

Starting to make sense? If not, just open up some likely template files and paste the echo line in likely locations, one at a time. Eventually you’ll start to see where in the template files is corresponding to your web page in-browser.