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<p>Activate this plugin and reduce you page weight by nearly 1mo !</p>
<p>Because embed videos can dramatically increase your page weight and loading time, Embed Video Thumbnail<br />
automatically replace them by their corresponding thumbnail. Videos will then only be loaded after click on thumbnails.</p>
<p>This plugin fixes part of the following “defer parsing of javascript” error in GTmetrix :</p>
<blockquote>
<p>xxxx MiB of JavaScript is parsed during initial page load. Defer parsing JavaScript to reduce blocking of page rendering.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Currently supported video hosting services :</p>
<ul>
<li>Youtube</li>
<li>Vimeo</li>
<li>Dailymotion</li>
<li>Facebook</li>
</ul>
<p>Optional settings :</p>
<ul>
<li>Toggle activation on each hosting services</li>
<li>Toggle activation by device (desktop, tablet, mobile)</li>
<li>Copy thumbnail on local server for performance improvements</li>
<li>Display video title over the thumbnail</li>
<li>Toggle video loop on Vimeo and Youtube</li>
<li>Import/export settings</li>
</ul>
<p>Widget :</p>
<p>You can use our Embed Video Thumbnail widget to transform your videos in sidebars.</p>
<p>Custom hosting services can be added with the <code>ikevt_extension_providers</code> hook.<br />
Each hosting service extension must implement <code>Ikana\EmbedVideoThumbnail\Provider\ProviderInterface</code></p>
<p>Requirements :</p>
<ul>
<li>php 5.6+</li>
</ul>


Embed Video Thumbnail

Automatically replace embed videos everywhere with their thumbnail to reduce page load time and improve your GTmetrix score.

Sutherland Boswell

<p>Video Thumbnails makes it easy to automatically display video thumbnails in your template. When you publish a post, this plugin will find the first video embedded and retrieve a thumbnail for you. Thumbnails can be saved to your media library and set as a featured image automatically. There’s even support for custom post types and custom fields!</p>
<p><strong>Version 3.0</strong> is on the way soon!</p>
<h4>Video Thumbnails Pro</h4>
<p><a href="https://refactored.co/plugins/video-thumbnails" rel="nofollow ugc">Video Thumbnails Pro</a> adds new options like maximum image sizes, widescreen cropping, more powerful bulk scanning, a customizable upload directory, and more!</p>
<h4>Supported Sites</h4>
<ul>
<li>YouTube</li>
<li>Vimeo</li>
<li>Facebook</li>
<li>Vine</li>
<li>Twitch</li>
<li>Dailymotion</li>
<li>Metacafe</li>
<li>TED</li>
<li>VK</li>
<li>Blip</li>
<li>Google Drive</li>
<li>Funny or Die</li>
<li>CollegeHumor</li>
<li>MPORA</li>
<li>Livestream</li>
<li>Yahoo Screen</li>
<li>Wistia</li>
<li>Youku</li>
<li>Tudou</li>
<li>SAPO</li>
<li>Rutube</li>
</ul>
<p>Video Thumbnails even works with most video plugins, including:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://refactored.co/plugins/video-importer" rel="nofollow ugc">Refactored Video Importer</a></li>
<li>Viper’s Video Quicktags</li>
</ul>
<h4>Help Translate</h4>
<p><a href="http://translate.refactored.co/blog/" rel="nofollow ugc">Register on our translation site</a> to help bring Video Thumbnails to more languages.</p>
<h4>Our Other Plugins</h4>
<p><a href="https://refactored.co/plugins/video-thumbnails" rel="nofollow ugc">Video Thumbnails Pro</a> | <a href="https://refactored.co/plugins/video-importer" rel="nofollow ugc">Video Importer</a> | <a href="http://retinamatic.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Retinamatic</a></p>
<h3>Known Issues</h3>
<ul>
<li>In some cases you may have to manually search for thumbnails on the post editor</li>
</ul>
<h3>Roadmap</h3>
<p>Version 3.0 is being finished up for release soon.</p>


Video Thumbnails

Video Thumbnails simplifies the process of automatically displaying video thumbnails in your WordPress template.

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