I am happy to announce the launch of new version of Smart Youtube, one of the most popular video embedding plugins for WordPress.
The version brings so many new features that I had to change the name to PRO (but the plugin remains free).
Here are just some of the new features of Smart Youtube Pro.
- Added support for Vimeo, Metacafe, Liveleak and Facebook videos
- New, much better, sidebar Widget support
- Extract Video thumbnails to show in your excerpts on categories/archive pages
- Show video in Colorbox
- Now parses http:// and httpv:// videos just the same
- Option to autoplay only the first video on the page
- Plugin localization support
Check out the plugin page for more details.
If you like the new plugin, please give it a 5 star rating.
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42 Comments
Thank you for sharing the information with us. It's useful and convinient.
Does this plugin work anymore? I had it on a wordpress install for a client but now it only display text links instead of the video.
It still works. I just updated from ~3.8 to this new one. All my settings were reset such as dimension sizes, as well as Custom code such as [youtube], so just had to fix that up and it still works just as good as it use to. The only thing however, is the option to remove the youtube Title does not seem to be working. Others here are also expressing this same issue. I hope for this to be fixed soon. My blog is music based so yeah it's not necessary to have to see both Post title and Youtube title right under it.
With regards to the title, I have just managed to fix it.
I noticed in the code that the Hide Youtube Logo bit seems to relate to displaying title info etc:
if ( $logoless == 'on' ) {
$ll = '&modestbranding=1';
$disp_info = '';
I turned off the option to hide Youtube logo, and now the videos embed without Title! (funnily enough, the youtube logo is still hidden). Good enough for me!
For me I've checked "Remove Titles & Ratings" and "Remove Annotations" option.
and I've commented $disp_info = '' line like below,
and the result: no logo AND no title.
if ( $logoless == 'on' ) {
$ll = '&modestbranding=1';
/*$disp_info = ''; commenter cette ligne CST */
} else {
$ll = '';
}
I just had to dive into the database on my development server to disable all my plugins. As your YouTube plugin was preventing me from logging into the development instance of my wordpress site by the sheer amount of errors it was spewing. Please fix it as currently I'm not comfortable with deploying your plugin on my live server.
Also I'm getting the strong suspicion that you do not test your plugins on a wordpress installation with debugging enabled, as these errors are then blatantly obvious.
I just upgraded to the new PRO version running WP Multisite and have the following issues:
1. All of my previous widget area videos on subdomain sites disappeared completely but the widget stayed in place.
2. Any html entered into the widget to title videos, add images, etc. is stripped out upon saving and only simple text remains.
Is there any way to recover the video data that was entered into each website widget previously? Is that info held in the database?
Thanks for a great plugin. I hope we can get it back to performing like it was before the upgrade.
when I upgraded my smart youtube to smart youtube pro, the embedded video never worked in my website posts....and I couldnt go back to the previous version of the software...any idea what I should do?
Today I updated the test/dev server for my site to wordpress 3.3 and the latest version of your plugin throws the following error (backend and frontend):
Notice: wp_register_script was called incorrectly. Scripts and styles should not be registered or enqueued until the wp_enqueue_scripts, admin_enqueue_scripts, or init hooks. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 3.3.) in /home/mijnon/domains/realsceptic.com/public_html/realsceptic/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3578
The new player will not play videos in Google Chrome. Seems to be working in Safari though. Thoughts?
After the update the options to hide titles and ratings stop working.
Another update (4.0.3) just released with more bug fixes
if you still have problems please email me a detailed description
the option "Show video in colorbox" is still destroying my theme! plugin lightbox plus which is based on colorbox
i upgraded to 4.0.3 but i still have embed problems. all i see are links with httpv://
i had to put back on 3.9.0 ver.
The option to hide Titles still wont work here.
hi,
i just update the plugin and now it doesn`t work any more. I went on a older post with http:// extention that originaly works and now there is only the link there, no more embed.
Can u help? thx.
Updated to 4.0.2 today, please let me know if you find any problems
still "Show video in colorbox" is breaking up my theme! i use lightbox plus which is based on colorbox
Hi Vladimir,
I am having the same problem Sara Tetreault describes. How to solve it?
Hi there Vladimir,
I set videos at httpvh:// 560 X 340 in the options but it only shows videos at the smallest size since the latest update.
The videos are still not showing in my blogposts, only the link. You can check it out here:
http://www.yandtblog.com/?p=484
How do I make it work again?
same problem here, sry for previous post!
Hi Vladmir,
I just updated to the latest version and I'm still not getting any video screen on my page. It still showing the text only.
http://gogingham.com/tv-appearances/
Thank you for working to get this fixed.
Sara
embedding continues to fail. Shows the links, but does not embed the video into the document.
I turned the image in excerpts to "Nothing" and deleted my wp-cache. The youtube thumbnails and default thubnails still display!! I deleted the plugin and installed an old version from the wordpress site, but the youtube thumbnail and default thumbnails still show on the homepage! Please HELP!! How can I get rid of these thumbnails on all my post excerpts?
update: I disabled wp-cache, installed the new smart youtube plugin making sure excerpts were set to nothing, and then turned wp-cache back on. All is working fine now.
How do I revert? It's messing up my preview pictures, you can check it out on my homepage: http://alphaefficiency.com
I am not into new features, I was just into what the old app used to do :)
Please let me know how to fix this issue or if you could include a link to old version, thanks
Hi Vladimir,
I've been using your plug-in and really like it! Thank you. I just updated it and am having a little problem. The videos aren't showing up - just the links as text.
http://gogingham.com/tv-appearances/
Any suggestions? I've tried changing some settings but am not having any luck.
Thanks,
Sara
Problems with Smart YouTube PRO:
- Specifying size or position (left, right) works only with httpv, not with http
- "Show video with color box" doesn't work. All it did was give the post blue-colored text!
I use WordPress 3.2.1, and the template Magazine Premium 1.17 (from bavotasan.com)
I like the fact that you can show a thumbnail on the blog page, but it would be nice if it would leave the thumbnail off if there is no video attached to the post.. Only show thumbnail it video present.
seems great . It`s right thing i need
I need to start using it. I have even few ideas how to use it! ; )
I updated this widget this morning and now the videos won't show in my posts. The old version was working fine. Any advice?
Same problem than Jorn! I have an awful default logo in my headlines: http://www.juguetesdecoleccion.com/juguetes/blog/
Please set show embeds in post excerpts as Nothing - that will solve it
Thanks for the feedback guys, there are a lot of new features so please be patient until we resolve all the issues
@ Sophomore
try {video} in the Video Appearence Section
@ Jörn
Stelle "Show embeds in post excerpts as" auf NOTHING
I discovered a bug myself: if i turn on "Show video in colorbox" my theme gets broken! I'm usin lightbox plus with is using colorbox
@ Sophomore
sorry, the code doesn't show up! another try: div style="text-align:center" {video} /div
don't forget to add after the " and the last div
Guten Morgen Franz,
vielen Dank für deine Hilfe! Das hat sofort funktioniert!
Vormittagsgrüße aus Hamburg
Jörn
Hi
The widget is not working in the Pro version. Please have a look.
S.K
Where can I download the previous version? This new one gives all sorts of problems: I can't center align videos and videos in the toolbar don't show up.
Hi Vladimir,
at first: thank's a lot for your really cool Smart YouTube-Pro-Plug-in.
Since I use the Pro-Version there's a logo under the headlines if I open a category - look here is an example: http://www.releasetime.de/category/instrumente/synthesizer/
How can I remove that logo?
Best from Germany
Jörn