Featured Video Plus vs Post Avatar

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.

Allow authors to select an image from a pre-defined list while in the Post Editor screen. This image will be displayed together with a post. Post Avatar is similar in concept to Livejournal userpics wherein authors choose images uploaded by the site owner. Developed with Dominik Menke. Features Easy selection of images from within the Post Editor screen. Scans images in sub-directories of the image option folder. Allows the following file types: .jpg, .jpeg, .gif and .png. Flexible with customizing avatar display. Display avatars using the default HTML/CSS tags. HTML/CSS tags can be edited from with the Settings screen. Use template tags and custom filters within themes for advanced customization. International language support for Belorussian, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hindi, Irish, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish Does not display missing images. Can be further extended to show images for pages and custom post types Bug Submission and Forum Support WordPress Forum Post Avatar home page Please Vote and Review Your votes and feedback are greatly appreciated. Thanks. Advanced Customization For Front End Display By default, the plugin hooks into the following filters: the_content() and the_excerpt(). OVERRIDE HTML DISPLAY USING FILTER HOOK: gklpa_the_postavatar The gklpa_the_postavatar filter takes two parameters: $post_avatar_text – Original HTML display $post_avatar – Post Avatar data in array format. The keys are: avatar_url: The URL to the image show_image_dim: 1 indicates to show image dimensions, 0 to hide them image_height: integer value of image height or null if image dimensions is turned off image_width: integer value of image width or null if image dimensions is turned off post_id: ID of current post post_title: Post title for the image attribute image_name: Image file name Example: Display a default image if no avatar is selected This example makes use of the HTML/CSS settings defined by the site admin. add_filter( 'gklpa_the_postavatar', 'prefix_show_default_image', 10, 2 ); function prefix_show_default_image( $post_avatar_html, $post_avatar_array ){ global $post, $gklpa_plugin_settings; // Display default image; if( is_null( $post_avatar_array ) ){ if( !empty( $gklpa_plugin_settings['css_class'] ) { $css = 'class="' . $gkl_plugin_settings['css_class']. '"'; } $post_avatar_html = $gklpa_plugin_settings['html_before' ] . ' post_title) ) . '" />'. $gklpa_plugin_settings['html_after']; } return $post_avatar_html; } OVERRIDE HTML DISPLAY WITH CUSTOM CONTENT HOOK If you want to change the HTML completely or override the option to display avatars automatically, use the remove_filter() like so: remove_filter(‘the_content’, ‘gkl_postavatar_filter’, 99 ); remove_filter(‘the_excerpt’, ‘gkl_postavatar_filter’, 99 ); You can then define your own the_content filter function that makes use of the gkl_postavatar() or gkl_get_postavatar() functions You will need to use the function gkl_get_postavatar() which takes the post object and returns the array of post avatar information. $post_avatar_array – Post Avatar data in array format. The keys are: avatar_url: The URL to the image show_image_dim: 1 indicates to show image dimensions, 0 to hide them image_height: integer value of image height or null if image dimensions is turned off image_width: integer value of image width or null if image dimensions is turned off post_id: ID of current post post_title: Post title for the image attribute image_name: Image file name Example: add_filter( 'the_content', 'my_custom_post_avatar' ); function my_custom_post_avatar( $content ){ global $post; $current_avatar = gkl_get_postavatar( $post ); $html_before = ' '; $html_after = ' '; // Display default image if( is_null( $current_avatar ) ) { $image_url = 'http://wplatest.dev/images/default-image.jpg'; $alt_text = esc_attr(strip_tags($post->post_title) ); } else { $image_url = $current_avatar['avatar_url']; $alt_text = $current_avatar['post_title']; } $post_avatar_html = $html_before . ' '. $html_after; return $post_avatar_html; } OVERRIDE HTML DISPLAY WITH template tag gkl_postavatar If you want the post avatar to appear outside of the content, e.g. with the entry’s meta information, make use of the gkl_postavatar() template tag. It takes four paramters: class: CSS class to use in the ` ` tag. before: HTML to appear before the image. after: HTML to appear after the image. do_what: Use `echo` to display the post avatar, `return` to pass it to a variable. Defaults to `echo`. Example: In a template file: ", " " );?> -- more template tags here -- Or you can make your own template tag function like in the example for “Override HTML display with custom content hook”, except you call the function directly in your template instead of hooking into the_content(). For Administration Screens Add Post Avatar to Pages and Custom Post Types Use the filter hook gklpa_allowed_post_types to add further post types that you want the Post Avatar selection to appear on. It takes an array of post type slugs as a parameter. add_filter( 'gklpa_allowed_post_types', 'prefix_my_custom_post_types' ); function prefix_my_custom_post_types( $current_post_types ){ $current_post_types = array( 'post', 'page', 'review', 'event' ); return $current_post_types; } Enable Image Selection for Folder Outside of WordPress Installation By default, Post Avatar looks for your images folder in relation to your WordPress installation. If you want to move your folder elsewhere, use these pair of filter hooks: gklpa_image_url and gklpa_image_dir. They take a single parameter: Image folder url and absolute path to the image folder, respectively. add_filter( 'gklpa_image_url', 'prefix_change_folder_url' ); function prefix_change_folder_url( $current_url ){ return esc_url( 'http://mysite.com/images/' ); } add_filter( 'gklpa_image_dir', 'prefix_change_folder_dir' ); function prefix_change_folder_dir ){ return '/user/public_html/images/'; } Please visit the Post Avatar Page for details on customizing the avatar display. Translations Post Avatar is translation-ready and supports a number of languages. If you can’t find your language here, please consider contributing a language pack. If you’re interested, please check out the “Codestyling Localization” plugin and for validating the “Poedit Editor”. Send in your translations to [email protected] Thanks to the following for their language packs. Belorussian (ru_RU) Fat Cower Czech (cz_CZ) Lelkoun Dutch (nl_NL) Jay August French (fr_FR) Mathieu Haratyk German (de_DE) Dominik Menke Hindi (hi_IN_Hindi) Outshine Solutions Irish (ga_IR) Ray S. Italian (it_IT) Gianni Diurno Polish (pl_PL) Meloniq Romanian (ro_RO) Webhosting Geeks Serbo-Croatian (sr_RS) Webhosting Hub Spanish (es_ES) gogollack