Featured Video Plus vs Image Formatr

A picture is worth a thousand words. How many words is a video worth? Featured Videos work like Featured Images, just smoother: Paste a video URL into the designated new box on the post edit screen and the video will be displayed in place of a post image. There are three ways to get the videos onto your page: Automagically! If your theme makes use of WordPress’ native featured image functionality you are set: Automatic insertion, lazy loading or lightbox overlays, its your choice. If this does not work you can either insert the [featured-video-plus]–Shortcode in your posts or manually make use of the PHP-functions in your theme’s source files. For more details, check the installation page. Theme compatibility Sadly many themes do not follow the WordPress standards and implement their own fancy functions for displaying featured images – those very likely break this plugin. Check out the FAQ. Another common problem are sliders: Videos, in general, do not like sliders at all. See the plugin in action on yrnxt.com. There is a button in the sidebar to switch between the different featured video display modes: Automatic, lazy and overlay. Besides Local Videos you can use videos from a whole lot of external providers like YouTube, Vimeo and Dailymotion. SoundCloud and Spotify (including playlists) are supported as well. Check the WordPress Codex for a complete list. If some provider is not listed you can always just use an embed code or whatever HTML you like. After installing the plugin check your site’s Media Settings (Settings -> Media in the administration interface): The plugin adds quite some little helper options there. Change to lazy or overlay mode, tweak video sizing, individualize the look of the most prominent providers’ video players and turn on autoplay or video looping. By default videos try to dynamically fit their parent containers width and adjust their size responsively. Support I do read all support questions in the forums but cannot reply to all of them. The plugin is an unpaid side project and full support would require more time than I can invest for free for over 20k active installs. If you really need help, consider buying me a cookie – best way to attract my attention and to support future enhancements.

Image Formatr is a simple plugin that goes through all the content images on posts & pages, and with zero user changes: gives them a standardized thumbnail format using CSS puts a caption underneath each one using the title makes them linked so they popup in full size Thumbnails are not generated, but will be used if available in the media library. This plugin is driven by the prettyPhoto library so we could call this plugin a prettyPhoto integration plugin. *Note: Supports images on Flickr. Usage This only applies to the images you put in your content, not theme graphics. After the plugin runs, the output to the browser looks like: A sample caption Documentation You can find plugin documentation at http://warriorself.com/blog/about/image-formatr/ Features Standardizes all thumbnails without altering posts Supports displaying images from Flickr: Generates image captions using the image title or alt Integrates WordPress media library thumbnails Gives popups for WordPress gallery images (adjust priority setting to 12) Shows all content images on the blog as small thumbnails (does not create new thumbnails but can use Media Library for thumbs) Allows for fine-grained control of each image’s format Zooms image to large size when clicked using the prettyPhoto library Outputs standard XHTML compliant markup Gallery Support To get WordPress Gallery images to popup, this plugin must run at a priority greater (later) than the [gallery] shortcode which runs at priority 11. Therefore set the priority setting to 12 in the Administration Options. Overrides The actions of the plugin are enabled and disabled with administration settings but can be overridden on each individual image. usemysize – true/false – true = do not ignore an image width and height usemya – true/false – true = do not ignore a parent anchor tag nocap – true/false – true = do not create a caption nofx – true/false – true = no popup effect link – string url – make the caption a link to the url hint – string txt – this will be the new image title asis – true/false – true = don’t change nuthin group – string txt – separate popup slideshows thumb – string url – image thumbnail (version 0.9.7) page – single/!single/front/!front – page filtering (version 0.9.7) If you want to surround an image with an anchor tag , then you should add a usemya attribute within the image tag or else your anchor will be ignored and replaced. If you do not want the popup effect at all, add a nofx attribute to the image. If you do not want any caption, you can specify nocap, or just leave the title blank. And to have the plugin completely ignore an image and output the content directly from the post, use the asis attribute. Example Note: concerning the true/false overrides, do not include “false” parameters like , i.e these overrides should only include the attributes for which you want to designate a “true” value. Credits Image Formatr is Copyright 2014 Steven Almeroth and licensed under a GPL license. Based on: image-caption by Yaosan Yeo. PrettyPhoto: The JavaScript Image thumbnail viewer library by Stephane Caron is licensed under GPLv2. Website More information, including how to contact me, is available at warriorself.com. Translations If you would like to contribute a translation of the administration settings screen please have a look at the .pot file and post to the support forum of e-mail to me. ToDo List add screenshot of output image with caption Wish List phone-home feature, activate/deactivate stats helper with version number add admin option for html/xhtml closing tags add admin option for moving title attribute to alt attribute should it overwrite an existing alt? debug mode could show images not found and whatnots and profiling stats change [flickrset id=”1234″] to [flickr set=”1234″] change [flickr pid=”123″] to [flickr img=”123″] show “the_content” ordering vis a vie wp-hooks-filters-flow.php Priority 8 : WP_Embed->run_shortcode() WP_Embed->autoembed() Priority 10 : wptexturize() convert_smilies() convert_chars() wpautop() shortcode_unautop() prepend_attachment() Priority 11 : capital_P_dangit() do_shortcode() Priority 20 : ImageFormatr->filter() Bug List bug: add_settings_field() not work-around is to only use unique single char id fields defined as constants