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WP Latest Video Widget is a sidebar widget that displays latest video from a custom set category. Based on custom fields.
What’s new
<ul>
<li>Added Romanian localization.</li>
<li>Widget title now can link to post containing the video.</li>
<li>Widget title now can link to category containing the video post.</li>
<li>Widget title now can link to site containing the video.</li>
<li>Fixed various bugs.</li>
</ul>
Supported Sites:
<ul>
<li>YouTube.com</li>
<li>Vimeo.com</li>
<li>Apropo.ro/Tare.ro</li>
<li>More to come!</li>
</ul>

WP Latest Video Widget

WP Latest Video Widget is a sidebar widget that displays latest video from a custom set category. Based on custom fields.

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.

WP Latest Video Widget vs Automatic Featured Images from Videos