jschuller

<p>Easily embed video within your posts. Adds a widget to the posting screen that enables you to post videos by simply providing the URL to the video hosted on common video sharing websites.</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<ol>
<li>Within the WordPress Administration Control Panel, expand the Posts tab and then select Add New.</li>
<li>Create a title for your post and add a description within the post field.</li>
<li>Paste the URL to the video you wish to embed within the Video URL field.</li>
<li>Enter the Width and Height parameters for your video within the fields provided (optional).</li>
<li>Click Update Post to save your options.</li>
<li>Once the page reloads, a full preview of your embedded video should be displayed.</li>
</ol>


Simple Video Embedder

Adds a widget to the posting screen that makes posting videos a cinch.

Brad Parbs

webdevstudios

Justin Sternberg

pluginize

Gary Kovar

coreymcollins

<p>When placing a YouTube or Vimeo video within the first 4000 characters of a post, the thumbnail of that video will automatically be uploaded and set as the featured image for the post as long as the post does not already have a set featured image.</p>
<p>In addition, after setting the video thumbnail as the featured image, an “is_video” post meta field is updated to allow for the use of conditional statements within your loop.</p>
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Automatic Featured Images from Videos

Tried this a bunch of times and it doesnt work. No errors or warnings, it just never sets the featured image

No longer works

An essential part of our Wordpress website. Saved hours of work. Thanks very much.

Just cool

If a YouTube or Vimeo video embed exists near the start of a post, we'll automatically set the post's featured image to a thumbnail of the video.

Simple Video Embedder vs Automatic Featured Images from Videos