Big Update to My Video Embed & Thumbnail Generator WordPress Plugin
October 23rd, 2011
In January I made a plugin for WordPress that generates thumbnails for videos posted online, and the proper HTML & JavaScript codes to embed those videos in a webpage. It has come in handy many times when I want to show a work-in-progress to a client, post dailies, or just embed a video on my blog. Writing it really helped me get a handle on the whole HTML5 video thing, which in summary is a big ugly mess.
The first version was really crude because I couldn’t figure out how to hook in to the WordPress Media Library, but it worked well enough for my purposes. I always wanted to go back in and make it more user-friendly, so for the past few weeks I’ve been revising the plugin to tap in to the built-in uploading and media management systems. Big thanks to Andy Blackwell for posting his great tutorial on the very important attachment_fields_to_edit hook. I learned a lot more about the WordPress plugin system, and finally put the plugin in their directory, which forced me to learn a few things about SVN, which is a clever if initially baffling system.
Anyway, I highly recommend the new version of this plugin if you’re doing any video embedding on your WordPress site. You don’t need FFMPEG if you just want a good system for posting videos you have hosted on your site, but if you do have FFMPEG on your server, you’ll get thumbnail generating and automatic HTML5/iPhone-compatible file encoding. It’s pretty neat.
3 Comments Add your own
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PKRG | January 21st, 2012 at 8:46 am
Whaaat ? Big update and no big thank ?
Damned !
So, here I am : Very very very very veryyyy big thank you for your plugin and this update.
I was looking for such a plugin for years and when I found it, I was trying to modify it in order to add it in the wordpress’s upload popup (in vain, I’m a noob)
So now it’s perfect.
Again, thanks a lot and happy new year
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Erick | February 4th, 2012 at 1:37 am
THANK YOU! for developing this plugin. It has the functionality that only and Editor would know to include. Generating thumbnail images, brilliant!
A helpful companion plugin that I found is called Add From Server:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add-from-server/
It allows large files that have been uploaded to the wp-content/uploads folder using an FTP program to show up the Media Library.
This is a way to get around the limits placed by web hosts on max file upload sizes.
I am not the developer of this plugin. However, the combination of the two plugins has made my life so much easier.
Hope this info will help others.
Thanks, again!
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Kyle | February 4th, 2012 at 1:35 pm
Glad you like the plugin Erick! I also have Add From Server installed, and it works really well.
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