“So what?” I hear you cry.
Yeah well, I can understand. Everyone knows YouTube and everyone has seen embedded videos on websites. How it’s done doesn’t bother most people.
WordPress have a default method of embedding. The thing is, it may be better than it was 2 years ago when I started this lark, but I didn’t like it then and I don’t like it now.
This is where the small army of plugin beavers come in to help us poor thick or lazy WordPress bloggers!.
Easy Tube
Previously, after trying a few players and methods, I’ve been using EasyTube for ages now, which is easy to use and has some customisation options. To work it you just type and it appears. You can set the size and autoplay using a few extra arguments.
To be fair it’s always worked. It’s just the comment tags and sizing is tricky to remove if you want to try something else…
I wanted to try Vladimir Prelovac’s because he’s been getting better and better as time passes. His current theme is a bit..er..white and spacious, I can’t see what’s going on there. I mean, only last Thursday he was using his Amazing Grace theme. But his Theme Switcher plugin (Theme Test Drive )is fantastic! The other day I changed the Crawling Chaos theme using it. I did all changes to the theme, set up menus etc as admin while the old theme was being viewed by users. Then I just swapped and bingo!
In the course of this I spotted his YouTube plugin and gave it a go.
It works and it works well.
In usage, all you do is get the YouTube video URL and insert a ‘v’ after the ‘http’ bit. So http://URL_of_youtube_video becomes httpv://URL_of_youtube_video
If I want to play HQ video, it becomes httpvh://URL_of_youtube_video
This is the full list of options:
- httpv:// – regular video
- httpvh:// – high quality
- httpvhd:// – HD quality
- httpvp:// – playlist
Colours and size are set globally, and this is a key point because the body text width of your main theme reading area in posts and pages puts a limit to your video width. Any theme changes you make need to take into consideration your extant pictures and videos.
Anyway, a global video setting suits me as I just make it a bit narrower than my theme widths.
Vlad has some other stuff too and has started using a video comments system called Seesmic which he references here. I’ll be looking a bit more at that.
How I Swapped
Obviously, the EasyTube system has a load of [ ] tags and associated arguments. So I turned the site off using the Maintenance Mode plugin and used pHpAdmin to download the wp-posts table. Then using a fast editor called Editor2 from http://www.zabkat.com I searched and replaced through all the SQL text!
The front of the URL tag was easy but the end took a bit longer. During the process I also cleaned up some long YouTube URLs and made them nice and short! I found some old tags from other dead plugins that I’ve used over time and deleted them as well! It only took a careful half an hour and then I just zipped down the new file (because it’s over the 2meg limit) and uploaded back into the database using phpAdmin.
Anyway, it’s goodbye EasyTube, hello Smart YouTube!
If a new plugin comes along, it’s a much simpler search and replace on ‘httpv:’ than previously, and that’s a major benefit – maintaining flexibility!
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“So what?” I hear you cry.
Yeah well, I can understand. Everyone knows YouTube and everyone has seen embedded videos on websites. How it’s done doesn’t bother most people.
WordPress have a default method of embedding. The thing is, it may be better than it was 2 years ago when I started this lark, but I didn’t like it then and I don’t like it now.
This is where the small army of plugin beavers come in to help us poor thick or lazy WordPress bloggers!.
Easy Tube
Previously, after trying a few players and methods, I’ve been using EasyTube for ages now, which is easy to use and has some customisation options. To work it you just type and it appears. You can set the size and autoplay using a few extra arguments.
To be fair it’s always worked. It’s just the comment tags and sizing is tricky to remove if you want to try something else…
Smart Youtube
I wanted to try Vladimir Prelovac’s because he’s been getting better and better as time passes. His current theme is a bit..er..white and spacious, I can’t see what’s going on there. I mean, only last Thursday he was using his Amazing Grace theme. But his Theme Switcher plugin (Theme Test Drive )is fantastic! The other day I changed the Crawling Chaos theme using it. I did all changes to the theme, set up menus etc as admin while the old theme was being viewed by users. Then I just swapped and bingo!
In the course of this I spotted his YouTube plugin and gave it a go.
It works and it works well.
In usage, all you do is get the YouTube video URL and insert a ‘v’ after the ‘http’ bit. So http://URL_of_youtube_video becomes httpv://URL_of_youtube_video
If I want to play HQ video, it becomes httpvh://URL_of_youtube_video
This is the full list of options:
Colours and size are set globally, and this is a key point because the body text width of your main theme reading area in posts and pages puts a limit to your video width. Any theme changes you make need to take into consideration your extant pictures and videos.
Anyway, a global video setting suits me as I just make it a bit narrower than my theme widths.
Vlad has some other stuff too and has started using a video comments system called Seesmic which he references here. I’ll be looking a bit more at that.
How I Swapped
Obviously, the EasyTube system has a load of [ ] tags and associated arguments. So I turned the site off using the Maintenance Mode plugin and used pHpAdmin to download the wp-posts table. Then using a fast editor called Editor2 from http://www.zabkat.com I searched and replaced through all the SQL text!
The front of the URL tag was easy but the end took a bit longer. During the process I also cleaned up some long YouTube URLs and made them nice and short! I found some old tags from other dead plugins that I’ve used over time and deleted them as well! It only took a careful half an hour and then I just zipped down the new file (because it’s over the 2meg limit) and uploaded back into the database using phpAdmin.
Anyway, it’s goodbye EasyTube, hello Smart YouTube!
If a new plugin comes along, it’s a much simpler search and replace on ‘httpv:’ than previously, and that’s a major benefit – maintaining flexibility!
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