Mark Wilkinson

Yes I have done tests with the plugin on WordPress 6.5 which indicates it works fine as far as I can see.

I am not quite sure why the error occurs. In my testing environment, the getimagesizes() function just returns false for that default YouTube thumbnail and I get no warning logs in the error log.

Does the plugin work correctly for valid Youtube videos?

Hi – can you provide a link to a page on your site which triggers this error please?

Hi there – a new plugin fix has just been released for this – v1.3.2

Hi there,

I have worked on a fix here:

https://github.com/highrisedigital/better-core-video-embeds/tree/feature/special-chars-fix

Would you be able to download that a ZIP and test on your site please? Deactivate the original first.

Hi there,

Thanks for reporting this issue – I can see this issue too and I am looking to resolve this asap.

Hi – thanks for confirming that it works. Understood about the characters.

I will push a plugin update shortly.

Hi there and thanks for submitting this issue. I have taken a look at the problem and produced what I think is a fix.

Could you download the following and add to your site to test please? You will need to deactivate the current plugin first of course.

https://github.com/highrisedigital/better-core-video-embeds/tree/feature/special-chars-fix

That download includes a fix and it would be great to see if it works for you before updating the plugin for everyone.

Let me know if you need an assistance with that.

Hi there, great news and thanks for letting me know.

Hi there, I have tried embedding those videos into my test site (I could see three on the page in your error log using BCVE).

In my test env. I get no errors happeing.

It could be from something else on the page. I notice there is another video on the page which appears to be embedded without using BCVE.

Hi Jaiji,

I think adding your own CSS for these use-cases is the best way forward. Everyone’s sites are going to be different at the end of the day.

Hi Jaiji,

Thanks for reporting the issue.

On Inspection I can see that the current version of Safari is 17.2 and therefore the version you mentioned is very outdated.

Therefore this is not something we are going to fix in the plugin. As you have mentioned yourself, you could offer a fix in your own CSS for this.

Kind regards,
Mark

Could you share the video URLs please? The thumbnails are cached for a day and therefore if you have changed them they may not change straight away.

Hi Jaiji,

Thanks for using the plugin. Do you have the URL of the page where these videos are not displaying correct please. Maybe I could take a look?

Hi Patrick,

Thanks for the suggestion and it certainly sounds like a sensible approach to me.

This is something that you could achieve yourself with just a little code. The play button, like the rest of the markup is added using a callback function on the hd_bcve_video_thumbnail_markup hook.

This means that you could easily unhook the plugins callback that adds the play button.

remove_action( 'hd_bcve_video_thumbnail_markup', 'hd_bcve_add_video_play_button', 20, 4 );

Then you could hook something in which adds your button. For example:

/**
 * Adds the play button div to the markup.
 *
 * @param array  $block           The block array.
 * @param string $video_id        The ID of the embedded video.
 * @param string $thumbnail_url   The URL of the video thumbnail.
 * @param array  $wrapper_classes An array of CSS classes to add to the wrapper.
 */
function prefix_add_video_play_button( $block, $video_id, $thumbnail_url, $wrapper_classes ) {

	?>
	<button class="play-button" aria-label="Play Video"></button>
	<?php

}

add_action( 'hd_bcve_video_thumbnail_markup', 'prefix_add_video_play_button', 20, 4 );

This would achieve the result you are after and then you could add the following lines of CSS, maybe in the customizer to style it.

.hd-bcve-wrapper .play-button {
    background-color: transparent;
    border: none;
}

I may well add something like this in the future, but for now the above should achieve the results you are looking for.