Sort Query Posts vs Featured Video Plus

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.

A really simple and lightweight plugin (73 lines of code – comments included) to sort posts on-the-fly without making a new query to the database (improves performance). Features: Supports all order_by and order values of the query_posts function except meta_value and meta_value_num (which require a database query). Supports changing the order of all types of posts, including custom post type posts and custom post type “archive” posts. Documentation This plugin adds the function sort_query_posts_by(string $order_by [, string $order]) to the global context. The second $order parameter is optional. Its default value is asc (ascending order). Call this function before the loop to change how posts are ordered. After calling this function you can show the posts as you normally would. You can sort posts by: author comment_count date id menu_order modified parent title This is specially useful in two cases: When you need to reorder the posts returned by the query that WordPress creates from your given URL. Custom post type “archive” posts are a great example of this case. When you need the posts returned by your customized query (e.g. query_posts()) to be shown more than once on the same page and ordered differently. Examples: The example above will sort posts by their title in descending order without making a new query to the database. This way sorting is performance friendly. The example above will sort posts by their ID in ascending order. The example above will sort posts randomly. When sorting randomly $order is ignored. Plugin developed by Túbal Martín at www.margenn.com.