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Automatic Featured Images from Videos

v1.2.4
by webdevstudios · 4.6 (36 reviews)

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 v …

8K+ active installs Updated Sep 10, 2024 Tested to 6.6.2 Requires PHP 5.6
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Automatic Featured Images from Videos

About Automatic Featured Images from Videos

Pluginize offers a feature where if a YouTube or Vimeo video is placed within the first 4000 characters of a post, the thumbnail of that video will automatically be set as the featured image for the post. This can be useful if you want to have a video thumbnail as the main image for your post. Additionally, Pluginize provides ongoing support and development for popular WordPress plugins like CPTUI and CMB2.

Changelog

1.2.4

  • Fixed: Better file naming of incoming images, based on youtube/video title value.
  • Confirmed compatibility with WordPress 6.6.x

1.2.3

  • Confirmed compatibility with WordPress 6.5

1.2.2

  • Confirmed compatibility with WordPress 6.4
  • Fixed: PHP notices around video url variables
  • Updated: removed www. from Vimeo endpoints that showed permanent redirect messages.

1.2.1

  • Confirmed compatibility with WordPress 6.3

1.2.0

  • Added: Support for potentially larger Vimeo images from API response.
  • Fixed: Various PHP notices and errors.
  • Updated: Minimum PHP version.
  • Updated: bumped up default string length to 4000 characters, for URL searching in content.
  • Updated: exclude user profile URLs from Youtube regex.
  • Updated: Switched all endpoints to make sure we’re using HTTPS.
  • Updated: Vimeo endpoint switched to JSON responses.
  • Updated: Plugin description.

1.1.2

  • Fixed: Issues with Youtube HEAD request returning 40x errors.

1.1.1

  • Fixed: Extra forward slash in YouTube URLs that was causing 404 errors when trying to add to media library.

1.1.0

  • Added: Metabox that displays the found video URL and embed URL. Values saved as post meta.
  • Added: Pass post ID for the wds_check_if_content_contains_video filter.
  • Added: Filters that allow customization by developers to alter default values.
  • Added: BETA: Bulk processing of posts for those missing thumbnails from videos. Please report issues found.
  • Added: BETA: WP-CLI support.
  • Fixed: Modified the way the vimeo embed URL is returned.
  • Fixed: Prevent multiple instances of same found image from being uploaded to media library.

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