Post Featured Video

July 22, 2024

Post Featured Video Plugin

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

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.

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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

Screenshots

  1. Choose post type to display featured video

    Choose post type to display featured video

  2. Enable Youtube URL or Vimeo URL or Custom video upload options on post edit page.

    Enable Youtube URL or Vimeo URL or Custom video upload options on post edit page.

  3. Display Featured Video on blog page

    Display Featured Video on blog page

  4. Display Video on blog detail page

    Display Video on blog detail page

  5. Enable Autoplay and Lightbox

    Enable Autoplay and Lightbox

  6. Display Video in the lightbox

    Display Video in the lightbox

FAQ

How do I add a featured video?

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.

Where do I get the URLs for my videos?

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

Why my video is not displaying?

Please make a sure post featured image should have been set and video URL must be valid.

How to enable YouTube or Video URL?

Go to the Featured Video menu > General Settings tab and choose display mode.

Is this plugin have a video autoplay option?

Yes, Go to the Featured Video menu > General Settings tab and choose settings option

Is this plugin have a lightbox option?

Yes, Go to the Featured Video menu > General Settings tab and choose settings option.

Changelog

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

Details

  • Version: 1.4
  • Active installations: 900
  • WordPress Version: 4.0
  • Tested up to: 6.6.1
  • PHP Version: 7.4

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