dustinscarberry

This plugin allows embedding galleries of YouTube videos within any post or page within your site. Just install and start creating.
Features Include:
<ul>
<li>Unlimited video galleries (YouTube and Vimeo support)</li>
<li>Set size of video player</li>
<li>Set progress bar color of video player</li>
<li>Order video albums by newest or oldest videos first, as well as custom re-ordering of videos / albums</li>
<li>Ability to display albums or just videos</li>
<li>Use either square or rectangle thumbnails for videos</li>
<li>Add YouTube and Vimeo playlists to albums</li>
<li>Publish and un-publish videos and albums without having to delete them</li>
<li>And more…</li>
</ul>

uTubeVideo Gallery

Display unlimited galleries of YouTube videos in any post or page within your site.

webdevstudios

Brad Parbs

Justin Sternberg

pluginize

Gary Kovar

coreymcollins

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.
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.
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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.

uTubeVideo Gallery vs Automatic Featured Images from Videos