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[Grant Kinney]

I am wondering if there is a way to create a video thumbnail for an individual video, as opposed to embedding it.

I have a client that uses TubePress to display a portfolio of their videos. Currently they manage the portfolio with vimeo. There is a channel that has all of their videos, then an album for each category which displays in a separate tab.

They have asked to be able to add individual youtube videos into their galleries. I tried embedding individual youtube videos set to the same size as the thumbnails, but then the thumbnail has the youtube player and play button on it, contrasting with the thumbnails in the gallery, and plays in place, rather than popping up in fancybox. It seems like it would be better if I could display these as thumbnails rather than embedded videos.

What might be the best way to use TubePress to add individual video thumbnails (or something with the same look/functionality)?

Site is here:
http://luckydragonpr...s.com/our-work/

[eric]

Hi,

Sure, this is possible, albeit a little clunky. Here's a shortcode that you could try:

[tubepress mode="tag" tagValue="UkJmoK7rslk" searchResultsRestrictedToUser="abcnews" resultCountCap="1" playerLocation="fancybox" hqThumbs="true" thumbWidth="240" thumbHeight="180"]

This shortcode will

• Search only videos uploaded by the YouTube user "abcnews" for the video ID "UkJmoK7rslk"
• Limit the results to a single video (if you use the YouTube ID, you will almost certainly get exactly one result anyway)
• Show a thumbnail of size 240x180 that, when clicked, will play the video in fancybox

I believe that type of functionality is what you're after? Let me know. Thanks!

[Corwyn Friesen]

I just noticed that this technique is no longer working for me.

 

I replaced that ID with the actual title of the video and it started working again. Not sure if YouTube changed up something here.