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#1 EposVox

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Posted 03 September 2014 - 05:27 PM

Hi all,

I've been searching for the past few weeks for a plugin (paid or free) that can do something similar to the video post functionality seen on pages like this one: http://www.ign.com/v...d-ign-daily-fix

 

This is actually a pretty common concept, and yet I can't find one.

 

Basically, I want to have specific video posts on WordPress that are just the video, not a full text post, have the featured video (aka., the main point of the post) with title and description at the top of the post, then a section of related or recent videos (or a playlist) tiled below it for a few lines of thumbnails.
 

Then would come the comment section and everything else.

 

TubePress seems to be the closest I've found to this functionality.

However, while playing around with the free version and going through the documentation, I can't seem to find any specific functionality to actually specify which video is the first/main video for the post. How is something that important not in there?

Am I missing something?

 

Thanks for your help,

 

(also, if you know of another plugin that does what I need, that would be helpful too.)



#2 brandon

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Posted 03 September 2014 - 11:08 PM

Hello EposVox,

 

What you are looking to do can actually be accomplished by making two separate TubePress shortcode calls.

 

The first call would be something like [tubepress video="ZTUVgYoeN_b"]

 

The second call would pull up either the related videos, or any other playlist, like: [tubepress mode="youtubeRelated" youtubeRelatedValue="ZTUVgYoeN_b"]

 

Please let us know if you have any other questions!


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#3 EposVox

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Posted 03 September 2014 - 11:43 PM

So the second call wouldn't make a separate video player with a featured video?
And it would replace the first one when one of those videos was chosen, correct?

 

Thanks a TON for your help!

 

EDIT: Yeah, I just tried it and it creates 2 separate instances of the video embed. (Screenshot here.)

That just looks... messy and unprofessional.

 

Is there no way for it to be more dynamic than that?

I'm looking into switching to just video-based WordPress themes entirely at this point. :/



#4 brandon

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Posted 05 September 2014 - 06:36 PM

Hi Epos,

 

You would have to perform some customizations to the code in order to accomplish what you would like to accomplish what you are attempting.  You would have to modify the template and then have the second playlist use the first videos player.

 

Thanks!


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#5 EposVox

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Posted 08 September 2014 - 11:51 AM

Alrighty, that answers my question.

 

Thanks for your help!