Post Featured Video
Post Featured Video is a very nifty responsive video plugin that helps your users to see a YouTube or Vimeo video or Custom HTML MP4 video
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Stale • Last updated 246 days ago • 6 reviews
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Description
Post Featured Video is a very nifty responsive video plugin that helps your users to see a YouTube or Vimeo video or Custom HTML MP4 video instead of the featured image on the blog and blog detail page.
Add the URL of YouTube or Vimeo in the specific field or upload video in the backend of the post/page and your user will have the pleasure to watch video in place of featured image.
Post Featured video plugin is highly customizable. You can display video in lightbox, enable autoplay video, enable display mode ie. youtube, Vimeo or upload MP4 video. It can replace the post featured image with a video.
Features
This plugin provides the following features:
* Option for enables/disable video for post types.
* Autoplay Video
* Enable/disable popup/lightbox for video
* Display mode for video (YouTube, Vimeo, Custom MP4 Video upload) and much more.
* Option to set the height of YouTube video.
* Option to display videos only on single posts, pages, and custom post types.
Here’s a link to the documentation for the plugin. This will help you learn more about its features and how to use it.
Documentation
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Installation
Installation Steps
Follow any of these below process.
Process – 1
1. Upload the folder to /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Process – 2
1. Visit your WordPress Administration interface and go to Plugins -> Add New
2. Search for Post Featured Video, and click Install Now below the plugin’s name
3. When the installation finished, click Activate Plugin
Frequently Asked Questions
Once you enabled featured video for the post type, go to the post edit page, there is featured image area (in the classic editor and Featured Video in Gutenberg) for you to look for and set URL or upload a video to display video.
For YouTube and Vimeo videos, copy the URL from the browser’s address bar. You may also enter a direct URL to any video hosted on your server.
For example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkuKHwetV6Q&t=39s or
http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/movie.mp4
Please make a sure post featured image should have been set and video URL must be valid.
Go to the Featured Video menu > General Settings tab and choose display mode.
Yes, Go to the Featured Video menu > General Settings tab and choose settings option
Yes, Go to the Featured Video menu > General Settings tab and choose settings option.
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Screenshots
Choose post type to display featured video
Enable Youtube URL or Vimeo URL or Custom video upload options on post edit page.
Display Featured Video on blog page
Display Video on blog detail page
Enable Autoplay and Lightbox
Display Video in the lightbox
Added a field for YouTube video height and settings for video display.
Changelog
1.7
- Stable Release
1.6
- Stable Release
1.5
- Fixes “Links are not crawlable” issue.
- Added a field for setting YouTube video height.
- Introduced a setting that allows videos to display only on single posts, pages, and custom post types.
1.4
- Stable Release
1.3
- Fixes play button design issue.
- Updated Version
1.2
- Fixes update post meta.
- Updated Version
1.1
Fixed Play Button issues
1.0
First Stable Release