Smart Youtube is a WordPress Youtube plugin that allows you to easily insert Youtube videos/playlists into your post, comments and in your RSS feed. The plugin is designed to be small and fast and not use any external resources.
From version 2.0 Smart youtube also supports playback of high quality videos, works on iPhone, produces xHTML valid code (unlike YouTube embed code), allows you to view videos in fullscreen and most recently has support for YouTube playlists.
The videos will be embedded in your RSS feed as well, and if this is not support by the reader you can choose to have video link and/or video preview screenshot displayed instead.
Main Features
- Embed YouTube videos with ease
- Embed YouTube playlists
- Supports latest high quality video protocols (360p and HD quality 720p)
- Allows full YouTube customization (colors, border, full screen...)
- Supports video deep linking (starting at desired point with &start=time parameter, use &start=num parameter)
- Works on iPod and iPhone
- Provides a sidebar widget for videos as well
- Produces xHTML valid code
- Very fast and light, no extra scripts needed
Example
You can discuss all plugin related issues in the wordpress plugin forums.
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Installation & Usage
- Upload the whole plugin folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
- Go to the Plugins page and activate the plugin.
- Use the Options page to change RSS feed options
- When you want to display Youtube video in your post, paste the video link with httpv:// (notice the 'v')
Example: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00000000
0000000 part is your video REF#
The video will be automatically embedded to your post in the proper way.
If you want want to display a high quality video then just use httpvh:// instead.
If you want to post a HD (DVD quality, 720p) quality video you would use httpvhd:// ('vhd' for video high definition)
To embed a playlist use extension 'vp' (eg. httpvp://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=528026B4F7B34094)
To use video deep linking just add &start=time parameter at the end of url. For example httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWfksMD4PAg&start=30 will start the video 30 seconds in.
Additionally, you can set how do you want the video to be displayed in your RSS feed. Smart Youtube can show the preview image of the video (automatically grabbed from Youtube), the link to the video, or both. I recommend enabling only the preview image.
Changelog
v3.2
- Added title to widget, fixed HTML code issue with widget
v3.1.1
- param closed properly for HTML validation (thanks Jan Eberl)
v3.1
- wmode transparent parameter updated to better handle transparancy
V3.0
- Added video template, option to set sidebar video size, fixed sidebar widget code, fixed video syntax issue
v2.8
- Supports Playlists
v2.7
- Added support for sidebar widget videos
v2.6:
- Added option to disable search box
v2.5:
- Support for 720p HD (DVD quality) YouTube videos. Use httpvhd://
v2.4:
- Supports video deep linking. Just add &start=time parameter at the end of url. For example httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWfksMD4PAg&start=30 will start the video 30 seconds in
v2.3:
- xHTML valid code is now an option because it breaks videos in some browsers and feeds
v2.1:
- Smart Youtube videos are compatible with iPhone.
- Fullscreen enabled
v2.0:
Suport for high quality videos from youtube
v1.91:
Rewritten old parts of plugin and general tweaks.
v1.9:
Added video autoplay option.
v1.8:
Solved problem with HTML validation, added full video in RSS feed.
v1.6:
Solved problem with WordPress handling special characters.
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520 Comments
Upload the whole plugin folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
Go to the Plugins page and activate the plugin.
Use the Options page to change RSS feed options
When you want to display Youtube video in your post, paste the video link with httpv:// (notice the 'v')
easy
good
thank u very match
Hi,
I'm very impressed with the Smart YouTube plugin - it's super easy to use. Do you plan on an update soon that will make it work in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8)? Currently the videos do not show at all - just a big blank space where the video is supposed to be.
Thanks!
Melissa
Hi
Any change in the plugin after the introduction of direct embed of videos using "oembed" in WordPress 2.9?
You may like to enhance that functionality still further!
Regards
S.K
Love the plugin, works great on my WPMU site as long as I'm using Firefox or IE.
But as soon as I switch over to Google Chrome, only the text of the URL with the added "v" shows up, not the video.
Anyone find a way to get this working?
Hey
nice plugin but i have a problem i'm using the latest version of WordPress and i'm unsing the Arthemia theme and there is a little problem .. the video is not shown on the home screen but when i open only this post the video is shown .. sry for my bad english but please help me!
I have the same problem as Lukas
Great Plugin. Thanks a lot!
Any chance someone knows how we can mod the youtube interface. Changing the colour is cool but the silver interface is kind of old.
thanks!
Vlad
Excellent plugin but I have the inset code sitting below the Youtube at http://meadowbank.biz/wordpress/.
I have just started with Wordpress and love the ease of your youtube plugin. I suspect that the problem is one of versions. Hemmingway (the theme I used) is version 2 and the plugin advisor said there could be problems. Smart Youtube works with Wordpress themes 2 and above? Is the plugin advisor based on the the version of Wordpress (the latest) or theme or combination of both?
Thanks in advance,
Bruce
I am using firefox 3.5.5 and it shows the youtube video but when you try to play it, it gives this error.
Not Found
The requested URL /<span class= was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Is there a way to set different heights and widths for different videos? For instance, I want videos in posts to show up at a certain size, and videos on pages at a different size. Thanks!
Hello!
Thanks for amazing plugin. But I have a problem. When the plugin is activated I get "HTTP 500 - Internal Server Error .The server responded with an error page." after saving the pages. (not for posts.)
What can be the reason?
I'm having a slight problem in installing the Smart YouTube plug-in. I desperately would like to use it on my site. The WordPress template is PrimePress. When I copy the smallest width for sidebar and put code in plug-in, the whole thing goes up into a page created in the top tabs and is not going into the sidebar where I'm placing it. Can you suggest a fix for this problem?
Hi
Can you please make it show a random video amongst a list on the widget?
Thanks
S.K
Any chance you will be including support for YouTube XL style viewer in next or future release? Or is the support there already and I'm missing it?
Your plugins rock, Vlad. I couldn't live without Plugin Central!
It's some kind of JavaScript as soon as I figure it out I will include it.
Hello,
is there any way to make Smart Youtube work on a custom field? In some articles, I use a custom field for the YouTube-URL.
Bye,
Oliver
It's not supported out of the box but can be modded to support if that is what you ask.
I would also love this feature to be built in...how is this possible???
Hi
How to have multiple instances of smart-youtube widgets. Right now there is only one and it has been used as a widget in one sidebar. Since I have multiple widgeted areas, I want to use different videos in different widgets.
Please help.
Thanks
S.K
Congrats on 500-th comment on Smart Youtube plugin :)
It doesn't support multi widgets yet, but you can post several videos one after the other in the same widget (even insert html in between)
Hi Vlad,
How do I set it so that when I play the video I remain on my site as opposed to automatically being taken to the video's original location on YouTube.
Cheers,
Julian
Once again :) Great plugin in I would also like to be able to pause the video instead of linking to youtube!
Hi, how do I do in order to implement directly in a wordpress template with code and not by using widgets?
Thanks in advance
DP
Hi, Im having problems with the plugin and iPhone - it just wont work. Is there something I have overlooked?
Nice plugin. Is there any way to extract thumbnails for posts from youtube with this or any additional plugin?
Great plugin, just used it to solve problems on Steve Show Posse.
Is this plugin likely to be very future proof? I have no idea about how plugins work, but would hate WP ver. 10 to break it. How likely is it do you think that the plugin will always work?
Cheers,
Jon.
I'd say 0.1% chance of WordPress breaking it, and about 15% chance youtube breaking it (by changing embed rules in the future)
I think I can live with that. Are you likely to be maintain it for a few years yet?
I can't guarantee you for tomorrow let alone five years my friend :) I'd like to be able to.
Great plugin!
Just wondering: Is there any way to SUPPRESS THE THUMBNAILS OF RELATED VIDEOS that appear after an embedded video has finished playing?
Thanks in advance!
There is an option in the plugin to remove them, just look at the setup screen.
Ah! You're referring to the "Include Related Videos" radio button? I didn't connect that with the thumbnails at the end! Sorry to be slow on the uptake. And thanks!
How would I go about using this in any old web page with regular youtube links (without the httpv needed)?
Possible?
I've been attempting to learn preg_match and preg_replace but I can't get anything to work. It has become obvious I kinda suck. :P
Can you please make the plugin automaticly choose HD/HQ/SD? I mean, if the clip is available in HD, of course I want to embed it in HD, and second best is HQ :) Love the plugin by the way! Thank you!
I can't as I don't know the quality of video based only the URL of the video.
Hi, I have today used this great widget in Wordpress, however I am trying to make it centre justify, does anyone know the coding to make it do this? And where would I put it? Also the background box would look much better if it extended to cover the complete previews. See where I have put the widget at http://www.motoringtoday.co.uk. Hope someone can help. Thanks
Paul
You can put html code into the widget as well something like
;)
hey guys i am making a tutorial site that i can store the videos on youtube privately and use what you have to put those movies from youtube on my website but this isnt working for me because i dont want them to be able to see this for the whole world because i am trying to make it a pay site is there any way around this now when you go to click the video it says this is a private video if you have been sent this video make sure you accept the senders friend request ????????? help please
very helpful plug-in for my wordpress page, thank you VERY much Vladimir !
Vladmir
Could I imbed this with your plugin...
Its a good talk
http://community.microsoftadvertising.com/blogs/analytics/archive/2009/10/23/bill-buxton-video-by-popular-demand.asp
Hi ^-^
I just installed this plugin...
very very very nice, thank you very much ^__^
i was wandering if there is a way to set per-video width and height...
i can't find any info about it..
so, i'd like to suggest an idea...
as you used &start=30 to set the start time of the video...
can't you use something like &width=xxx and &height=xxx to set width and height on a per-video basis?
(i just tried &start=10 on a casual youtube video (on youtube.com).. and it does nothing.. so i think that it's your plugin that parse that "&start" parameter...)
thank you and greetings :-)
(uh.. i was forgetting.. ehm... if there is way to put an option in the config page.. to disable the on-video-playing-click-link to the youtube page of that video.. i'd be very glad to have it :p =^-^=)
Love this plug in!
Question is, where do I make the adjustment to change the size of the embedded YouTube video?
Thanks again!
I am Having a problem with the video playing. It says: Embedding disabled by request Watch on Youtube. Whats up with this.
Thanks for your work, this plugin is really cool !
Can you (or someone) help me use the widget function in my template files ?
This is what I did in my code (that did not work) :
"my YT link with the v added",
"yte_title" => "the title",
"before_widget" => "",
"before_title" => "",
"after_widget" => "",
"after_title" => ""
);
yte_widget($videos);
?>
Of course I miss something for i'm not a php master !!!
Thanks for this! I'll use this one on my site! :)
Currently using this plugin. This is the easiest method to add youtube videos on my website. I've tried every other technique but smart youtube is just clean and easy to work with. Centering is as easy as adding a tag to the text!
Great plugin, unfortunately it doesn't work with IE8.
In my country ( Turkey ) youtube is forbedden . We can access youtube with adding all youtube ip's to the hosts file . In my blog i have a post about that . How can i add a note to my guests and link that to my youtube post just before the video ? Which file and line do i need to edit ?
why is the hd clip so small witht he plug in when its almost a full 1024 browser width in youtube? I see no option to change its size either?
Still not working on IE8, but this plugin is waaaaaaaaay GREAT.
Hello, How do you embed this plugin in the sidebar without using the dynamic sidebar widget?
I'm trying to embed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGamSgt5nF0 in hd . i'm adding
httpvhd://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGamSgt5nF0 i can make it fullscreen i can see hd button . but its not starting in hd . but when i click hd its okay . it should start with hd isnt it ?
use this instead
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGamSgt5nF0&hd=1
apparently comments have to be 7 words long so this is just filler
i trying use your plugin.. its great plugin.. but i have some trouble..
if i you browser IE this plugin worked good.. but if i see with chrome or mozila video cant play. and automatic open new page "nothing found" page. (http://blog.foreverdancecenter.com/%3C!--%20Smart%20Youtube%20--%3E%3Cspan%20class= )
like that.. can anybody helps? thanks a lot..
is it possible to use tis to place more than one video in the sidebar? I can only use the widget once?
thanks for your help.
-john
Hi,
I really like this plugin, but when the controls are used on the embedded video a new windows tab is opened in the browser, showing the original Youtube site.
in this normal?
It works perfectly! Is there any solution to import the comments from that youtube link?
Outstanding! Thank you! Let me know when you get the source code to change the world. I will need a snippet!
Cheers,
FONDA
Fantastic comment :)
nice plugin
is there a way to implement this in templates ?
THANKXX so much...finally easy going posting with you tube vids!!!!
hi
Youtube is denied to access in my country
i have a lot Youtube video placed on my site with Smart Youtube
now i can access to Youtube.com with it's IP Address (64.15.120.233)
how can i use that IP instead of Youtube.com Domain?
this means i need a change in plugins for change the video address in WP pages(not in admin panel and database)
tanks for Smart Youtube
pulled the use of smart youtube on my blog. i'd love to use it again...
Tried using rm_wpautop plugin on Smart YouTube posts, didn't work...two videos and code sticking out...gotta start embedding the code itself...but I'll be looking for a solution here.
Cheers,
Dainis
hmm...turned off xHTML validation and now I get two videos plus the extra code sticking out. Trying to figure somethin' out :-)
rel='nofollow'> sticks out, and then the formatting of certain pages (if there is more text below SmartYoutube) gets messed up. Works fine if I just embed the YouTube code, but I have httpv in over 100 places on my blog.
Any thoughts on a fix? I tried to put the YouTube URL in as "raw" html using the Raw Code Injector. I think this has something to do with autop.
Kinda don't want to go through my whole site and replace all instances of httpv with the whole YouTube code.
Best,
Dainis
For users who migrated to self-host (from Wordpress.com to Wordpress.org):
If you want the [youtube=*youtube-address*] tags to work with Smart YouTube, I'm writting some lines of code to insert to the Smart YouTube plugin.
On smartyoutube.php, search for the following line:
return $the_content;
Now, add the following BEFORE it:
// to work with migrated blogs from Wordpress.com replacing [youtube=youtubeadresss]
if(strpos($the_content, "http")!==FALSE ) {
preg_match_all("/\[youtube\=http:\/\/([a-zA-Z0-9\-\_]+\.|)youtube\.com\/watch(\?v\=|\/v\/)([a-zA-Z0-9\-\_]{11})([^<\s]*)\]/", $the_content, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);
foreach($matches as $match) {
$the_content = preg_replace("/\[youtube\=http:\/\/([a-zA-Z0-9\-\_]+\.|)youtube\.com\/watch(\?v\=|\/v\/)([a-zA-Z0-9\-\_]{11})([^\s<]*)\]/", yte_tag($match[3], '', $match[4], $side), $the_content, 1);
}
}
And voilá!
Notice this is a quick mod, and since I'm not a pro PHP coder, I'm not completely shure if this will affect other things... but I guess not.
Also: All [youtube=] tags will be treated as standard non-HD videos.
Another sollution is using something like the Search and Replace plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-and-replace/) to replace all tags like:
"[youtube=http://" for "httpv://" and "]" for ""
The only problem is that you'll end up with no "]" on your posts, even those that has nothing to do with YouTube tags.
I hope everyone understands what I'm saying...
[]'s
Nice patch, I have included it for v3.3
For some reason the Smart Youtube plugin prevents the TinyMCE Advanced editor plugin from loading properly in the edit-pages.php dashboard page (on all other pages including editing posts, there's no problem). I am not running any other plugins, so I know SY is at fault just by disabling it.
Hi Vladimir
thanks for the plugin.
Is it possible to display a thumbnail on my posts of the videos?
thanks
Eamonn
Love the plugin! One question on the admin side. How can I relocate the position of the plugin "stuff" on the add post and add page screens. I have other plugins and I would like to move this as close to the content as I can. Thanks!
I love this plugin as well. I also use one of your themes, modified slightly. One problem I have with this plugin is it works great in the sidebars, but using the instructions for adding it to posts it does not work. No clue why.
Love this plugin, thank you!
I mention it in a case-study of a recent project on my blog: http://blog.estherswhite.net/2009/07/one-big-wordpress-site-a-case-study/
Love it! Thanks for your work.
Hi,
Great plugin and blog - as well as your other plugins!
Is there any way to auto play a specific video. If I have more then one video in a post/page and I want one to auto play and all the rest not to auto play, how do I do that?
Thanks,
Daniel
Hi, awesome plugin. But after upgrading to 2.8.x occurs an error: the long line (–) will be replaced with -- in the whole content (if a embedded video exists in the post or not) ...
Hi there
I simply love your plugin and it's used widely on my website in all my review posts. It's also in my sidebar widget and as another poster had requested, can we have several instances of this as widgets in same or another sidebar? As you can see from my site I'm actually using different video widgets due to single instance restrictions. I understand it's simple to code in the multi-instances but I'm not a coder.
Can this be considered for a revision? I'll donate if that can be done as I just want to use your plugin in all my sites.
Klasse Plugin, hab es gerade auf meiner Homepage eingebaut. So stellt man sich als Nicht-Programmierer eine Arbeitserleichterung vor: Einrichten, und es funktioniert super.
Hi love the plugin. Any chance of a Smart YouTube/Vimeo version in the future?
Thanks for a great plugin and all the work that goes into creating and maintaining it! Much appreciated.
Hi -- I set up this plugin for a client and it's great. One question: Is it possible to use the sidebar widget on more than one sidebar? I have a sidebar1 for my home page and post pages, and sidebar2 that i use on some special pages. But the sidebar widget is not available to add to the 2nd sidebar, now that i've used it on sidebar1. THANKS!
Why do my visitors get redirected to youtube when they click on one particular video I posted?
The other videos are shown standardly but by this one http://www.franzbrandtner.com/songs/johann-pachelbel-kanon-in-d-dur/ my visitors are taken to youtube and are shown the video directly on youtube.
Why is that so? I of course don't want that at all.
Shiraz is right, it works only on IE however it does not work for me on opera, safari, firefox. I tried to break up the hyperlinks but it disapeared the video frame and put a mistaken link. Where is the mistake on the address?
Any ideas?
Thanks!!
@Omar Salgado & @shiraz - I had the same problem. Break the hyperlink so it reads as a non-underlined link. That should fix it.
@ Omar Salgado - You obviously put in the wrong URL.
@ shiraz - Just checked your site using Mozilla, worked fine for me.
Happy Trails. . .
The plugin is good i realize that when using IE and safari it work find but when using Mozilla when play the video it jump to Youtube website.
Thanks in advance
Hi:
I am using the pluging but I noticed recently that when I click play on video instead of playing the videos on my webpage it loads the video in youtube web page, what is it wrong?
The latest version of the plugin doesn't work. it double-posts videos and leaves extra coding clutter!
http://i41.tinypic.com/eal3xd.png
Please fix this. The plugin worked great beforehand!
Upgraded to WP 2.8 a couple days ago and have not had a problem with this plugin, works great as always. Thanks, Vlad
Using this on all my blogs. Very good plugin. Thank you a lot.
Great plugin. Only thing I can't figure out is how to embed a playlist AND have it be high quality. Seems like you can do one or the other, but not both. Suggestions?
I have add "&hd=1" to vhd parameters, for activate HD-button.
(case 'vhd': $high="&ap=%2526fmt%3D22"; break;)
greez
Hey Vlad,
Just wondering if you're aware of any issues with WordPress 2.8? If I have Smart YouTube enabled then it causes issues with the Dashboard when I log in - stops some of the windows appearing and disables the popup menus.
I'm just trying to find out if this is just me!
hi,
i would like to know if your plugin can add the latest video post on my homepage?
am trying to post at the plugin forum, but not having any luck, nothing happens when i click submit new post.
Anyway. . .am having some issues with the plugin, despite it being overly awesome. When i look at a post in google reader at home, it shows the embed, plus the thumbnail. When i look at work, it shows only the thumbnail. Very strange, I have no idea why. Very strange, both using FF3, and I think both are using Flash 10, not sure what other differences there would be.
The problem is that the thumbnail links to youtube. Is there a way to just link the thumbnail to my post? It seems a lot of people are asking this, but I've already read so much, and not seen an answer.
And, I know I've already asked, but if anyone is aware of how to automatically use the thumbnail in your theme, please let me know. I'd like to automatically use thumbnail on homepage, linking to post with embed.
Thanks vlad + community!
Dave
Hello!
You should add "case 'vh+': $high="&ap=%2526fmt%3D35"; break;" in your code!
There are four quality-modes on youtube right now: Standard, High Quality (fmt18), High Quality + (fmt35) and 720p (fmt22).
An example for fmt35 is one of my videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsC0iIDUu4Q&fmt=35
Youtube plays the fmt35 version instead of the fmt18 when you click on the HQ-button in this video!
Greetz ;)
hi vlad,
i just noticed that my RSS has a thumbnail image, and when someone clicks it, it goes to youtube.
1) how can i use this thumbnail for frontpage instead of rss???
2) how can i make the thumbnail in rss go to post instead of youtube???
thanks!
Hey Vlad! Is there any way to change the embed code so that when someone clicks on the player they are NOT taken to the YouTube site, but instead to a different URL that I could specify?
hi again vlad, thanks for the response
so far the plugin rocks, been waiting for this
anyway, in response to your response, if the thumbnail is pulled directly from youtube, is there a way using this plugin, to automatically put an image on the homepage, but the embedded video on the post page? i just want to link a movie in a post, and then if you view the post on the homepage, you see an image, clicking it takes you to the post page, where you see the movie. that would be amazing functionality, never seen something like it and been looking.
thanks a lot!!
it comes from youtube directly
hey, loving the plugin, just a quick question,
in the settings, at the very bottom, there is an option to display video preview image in RSS feed. Where does this preview come from? I've been looking for a plugin which can automatically create a preview image for the frontpage for a long time.
Thanks Vlad!
Finally figured it out. For those of you having the same problem (videos in posts that automatically redirect to YouTube page), just highlight the YouTube URL in the admin panel for the post and click the Unlink icon. I'm sure Vladimir says something about that somewhere but I missed it. Whew! Problem solved.
Vladimir, thanks as always for your bug fixes. Any idea why the videos in my posts go directly over to YouTube in Google Chrome and Firefox? This doesn't seem to happen in Internet Explorer. It's very frustrating. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Jim
Widget title, and html code fix implemented in latest version 3.2 out today.
Wow.. great plugin bro..
I already try it and I can insert my You tube videos into my wordpress blog very easily.
Thanks For sharing...
A title for the widget would be a good addition to this fabulous plugin.
Also, am I the only one? I can't get HTML codes to work in the widget.
I'm on Smart Youtube 3.1.1 and IE6
In addition to my comment a couple of days ago, when you play the videos in posts on Google Chrome and now Firefox, they take you over to YouTube. This does not happen in IE. The video in the sidebar is fine. This only applies to videos in posts. PLEASE HELP! It's driving me nuts. LOL
Thanks, Jim
http://www.filmscoreclicktrack.com
Excellent Plugin! I'm new to blogging and was found your plugin, installation was easy and it only took me a few minutes to get the syntax down for my posts.
Keep up the good work!
Great plugin!
I'm wondering though, if there is the capability to customize the size in different posts. In other words, one size in one post and another size in another post...
Still the same problem as stated few months ago:
Tthe plugin is causing the known "Operation Aborted" error in IE6 & 7. The page stops loading when my blog post
Thank you.
P.S. It's the videos within the posts, not in the sidebar. Thanks
Same problem as Nick but only in Google Chrome. When I click on the video it takes me to YouTube. Is there a fix for this? It's been working fine for almost 2 months. Now, all of a sudden, it's not. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Jim
Thank yoiu for this plugin ! I couldn´t believe how easy to use it is :D :D
Having a title for the widgets is a must. I have two videos on my wordpress that are side by side and user do not know what each video is about. Other than that, very happy with the plugin!
@ Nick
Just visited your site using Firefox version 3.0.10 and the plugin worked just fine whether clicking the play button or that stupid in your face play button in the middle of the video.
Happy Trails...
I am having an issue in firefox with this plugin. each time the user clicks play it redirects to youtube. This only happens in firefox though.
http://www.wecansaveit.com/deforestation/
Hi,
Thank you for the plugin. I was wondering what code would I put in the video template for video appearance if I want to center the video in my post column? Thanks. Im a real beginner, by the way!
This post has a video in it: http://girlreturnshome.com/psalm-23-for-babies-daddies/?preview=true&preview_id=1913&preview_nonce=ee33169c5f
Also um Youtube Videos sauber in sein Wordpress Blog zu integrieren ist dieses Plugin wirklich klasse.
Great plugin! Thank you, Vlad!
The code on the screen reads as such when I went on Mozilla:
watch?v=dOgupWvXfLU">watch?v=dOgupWvXfLU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355" >
Also, apart from my Options Menu inquiry..have you ever received an issue where the "code is showing"? Purportedly, this is what my friend sees on his screen...
He is using Mozilla on a Mac. I am using Safari and a MAC w OS X and I see no such code..
Thoughts anyone?
-Andrew
I am using your plugin and it kicks ass..I have read the above comments, and many of you are over my head, but I'm learning quickly.
Sorry to be so lame, but,
Where is the Options Menu you mentioned??
Thanks much,
Andrew
Awesome plugin! Very clean and does what its supposed to do.
One thing we REALLY wish it had is a button in the editor that a less savvy user of our sites can click to open a popup window, paste the url to the video, choose whether it is normal, HD or a playlist and the plugin then adds the 'v', 'vp' etc to the string itself.
It seems like it should be pretty easy to implement and I think it would vastly improve the usability of this great plugin. If this is something you would need to do freelance and charge for, please let me know!
Thanks Vladimir!
Nice find Mike, I released version 3.1 to reflect this change.
OK -- finally figured it -- smartyoutube.php needs the wmode="transparent" to be set in the EMBED tag in order to work -- this change allows dropdown menus to remain on-top and for thickbox also to remain on top:
In current version change line 511 and 515 to add wmode="transparent" to the embed tag like this:
embed wmode="transparent" src="'.htmlspecialchars(...
My drop down menus are hidden behind the smart youtube...
My theme css sets z-index:9999 for the drop-downs
How should I adjust my theme so that my drop-down menu remains on top? wmode=transparent exists in the smart youtube code, but doesn't seem to be effective.
Smart YouTube also floats on top of NextGen Gallery images when displayed in lightbox (enlarged image)...
Perhaps the wmode=transparent in the smart youtube isn't 'working' ??
Suggestions?
Thanks!
Mike
The plugin is awesome and worked quiet well but since they upgraded wordpress, I seem to be getting weird error and captions on embedding youtube vids. you cna check the website and see the article named "Most Awesome Video Ever".
Titles and ratings are gone again this morning. Plugin is working fine including playlist videos. As google/youtube has been messing with their code again during the last week, ie: moving data between youtube and google servers, some user data is showing incorrectly but this does not effect this plugin. This is one of my favorite plugins. Thanks Vladimir
This plugin was working fine until last night. I've uninstalled and reinstalled, but i still only see 'an error occured, please try again later'. I checked on youtube, and the videos and my playlist seem to be okay. Any ideas?
I tried wp-youtube, because it allows you to set autoplay per video (video profile actually). With smart-youtube activated, I can't get wp-youtube to work, so I just embedded the code of the youtube video I need to autoplay manually and set it to autoplay.
How can I embed this direct into the sidebar without using the dynamic sidebar widget?
I am also thinking if l can automaticly fetch thumbnails too with the videos.. Cos many of the plugins dosnt allow it.
Remove Title and Ratings no longer works. I don't know if YouTube changed it, but I noticed just today that the titles and ratings started showing up despite having "disable Titles and Ratings" selected in SmartYouTube...
Thank you for the time you have put into this plugin.
One feature request:
Enable a "Title" field in the widget, similar to how the standard Text widget works.
It would be very helpful to simply add a Title to a sidebar video via the widget, instead of having to manually add HTML to do so.
Also looking for selective autoplay. Thanks Vladimir! You really put together wonderful tools and resources. :-)
Mine just stopped working also.. Maybe a delete and reinstall
Will try that next..
Great plug..
happened with me too ... the plugin stop working... hopefully it will rectify itself soon
Hello, great plugin so far... but I experience some problems... Suddendly yesterday the plugin stopped working... Is there any other experiencing the same problem ?
Just don't know what to do with this. I uninstalled and re-installed but again the videos stopped appearing in the post. Only the address ... :(
This plugin is great, thanks a lot!
OK, I disabled this plugin, because I figured it had something to do with code line breaks: PS Disable Auto Formatting and it worked, however, I really like using that plugin, because I like being able to paste real HTML into my posts. I'll have to work with this one...ideas?
Tried xHTML, but the videos show in the sidebar of the Amazing Grace theme in Firefox, and I see a stray rel='nofollow' on all of the posts with videos. The code is somehow getting out of whack.
My videos are also appearing twice, any idea what is going on, I have the most recent version of smart youtube. Here is an example:
http://www.curetinnitus.org/war/
I also would like to see the possibilty to get HTML to work in the sidebar, plus adding a title.
loving the plugin, Thank you
This is a fantastic plugin! Great job!
One issue:
I see in the widget that the user has the ability to insert html in the sidebar. I'm unable to get this to work. I just would like to stylize my title for the sidebar video and I'm unable to do so. If there was just a field to add your title that would work for me. (I noticed that Jim on April 8th also is asking for this to be added.)
Thanks and this plugin is really the best one in the marketplace thus far!
Cheers!
love it!
thanks so much!
Grate plugin Vlad, like your beautifull layout ;)
I made a smart tutorial in italian and i have subscribed your feed. Thanck for coding and sharing.
Ciao
LuViWeb.it
Thanks i have been looking for a plug in like smart tube.Thanks for the development of one.Now let me get down to tune it for my sites.
Again thanks
Vladimir,
This is a GREAT plug-in! Thank you for creating something so simple, AND customizable, to add videos. Two things I'd like to do with the plugin in the sidebar:
1. Have it automatically link to the latest video post. (That's why I'm using it for the sidebar so far.)
2. Be able to customize a title for the sidebar version.
I don't know if this is something that's customizable at the moment. If not, perhaps something you could consider for a later release.
Either way, GREAT job!
Jim
filmscoreclicktrack.com
Vladimir, I love the plug-in! Working great, and I like the ability to set 3 different display sizes for clips. I'm trying to do the same with the playlist, but it doesn't look like that's possible.
I want to insert a playlist, but have it be 750x465 pixels, to more closely fit my layout. Is that possible?
Just updated newest version.
Thank you for distributing wonderful tool!
Pls visit my site, you can see a familiar sight though it's written in Japanse.
Thank you!
This is by far the best plugin, however the dimension settings do not work. Due to my blog layout, I set videos to a width of 600 and a height of 361, but the changes are not shown on the blog, even though in the settings page they seem to save.
I end up having to go directly into the plugin file and hardcoding in the values for $width and $height respectively.
Not sure if I'm the only person having this problem, but it is rather annoying!
-Adrian
The Widget uses only the half of my sidebar width so I could put two videos side by side. How come?
i to have a problem like joel...my content is hidden behind youtube video. i have researched to no avail.
I noticed the comment from 'gt' on March 19,2009 about finding a way to prevent the navigation drop down from being hidden by the video. I looked through the plugin code and saw where wmode=transparent was implemented, but my drop down is still being hidden. Any suggestions? I appreciate any input.
Thank you,
Joel
Thanks for the update to 3.0 Vladimir! Any chance of you being able to get rid of the URL YouTube now displays when you play a video that has a border on it? I like using borders, but have had to remove them from my videos now because of this.
How about W3C compliance? That would be cool. I know I know, nothing is ever good enough. We are ungrateful. ;)
Version 3.0 out
- Added video template, option to set sidebar video size, fixed sidebar widget code, fixed video syntax issue
I love this plug-in! Thank you for all the hard work on it.
It seems it does not play well with the Feedburner plug-in or with feeburner in itself. Videos won't show up when using my feedburner feed.
Anybody knows a work around to make this work on a feedburner feed?
It looks like Google/YouTube are up to their antics again. This time, if you use borders, when you press the Play button, under the play bar the URL of the clip makers YouTube page is displayed. Can you put in code to stop that? Thanks again for all of your excellent work with this plugin!
joe
there seem to be various problems with the current version (2.8.1)
1) even though i use the httpv string to define high-quality, the videos are played in normal quality.
2) videos are not included in the rss feed. they should be, according to the readme of this plugin.
some suggestions:
- please add a "best available" option, so the hd-version in high quality is played, with fallback to sd high to sd low (could be named 'httpb')
- please ensure that localized video embeds are also working. httpvh://de.youtube.com?blah was not recognized on some embeds on a wordpress site. also make sure, that extra options are still recognized, such as http://de.youtube.com/watch?gl=DE&hl=de&v=YCYZYa2tsFc which is a youtube valid link but is not recognized correctly by smart youtube.
- please add an option in the options screen on which version (high, normal, hd, best) is to be embedded in the rss feed.
regards,
parasew
This is a very smart plugin. I'm using for a project of mine and I would like to add a title in the widget use: it seems that you can add text before the Youtube link but it doesn't accept HTML tag (they're stripped down). Any plan to include a 'title' field in the widget? Thank you.
It is a really cool plugin. I have only one question or feature wish: Is it possible to play playlist entries randomly?
Thx a lot for any hints!
If you'd like to watch movies on your Iphone, you've come to the right place. In order to do this, you have a few different choices and ways to go about it. This is due to the Iphone needing the movies to be stored as MP4s. If you'd like to find out exactly how it's done, check out this article.
i m using smart youtube.
but my dropdown menus were hidded by youtube video
the solution is present incode but not working fine.
i have make some changes and now working fine
update smartyoutube.php
line 489 & 493 has embed tag
inert one more attribute in these tags
wmode="transparent"
i m using smart youtube.
but my dropdown menus were hidded by youtube video
the solution is present incode but not working fine.
i have make some changes and now working fine
on line no 489
to
@ Omer
Have not used viper's video quick tags for a couple of months now.
I have modified the plugin for my personal use, but prefer it as is over viper's plugin. The only bug I know of which rarely happens is if the youtube url has two consecutive hyphens, "--", in it, the video will not load.
Happy Trails, ...
I am running the plugin on my new blog and it works perfectly but for some strange reason the video gest dragged onto the front page of the blog in Firefox only. In IE is looks fine but in Firefox the summary is included to the right of a picture in each post but dumped below is the video links, anyone tell me what might be happening here ?
Is this better than vipers quick video tags? Anyone upgrade to this from Vipers notice a difference?
Have read your article, write pretty good. To assist my very large, a thank you.
Hi, what i done wrong?
http://www.lolrofl.net/2009/03/schildkrote-fail/#more-749
i added it with this adress:
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDiR7UxI8Ow
but its only in normal, and i can click on HQ if i start the video. :(
Can we have an option to enable/disable autoplay?
It can be a letter appended to the beginning of the YouTube URL like:
httpvha://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxx
This would enable autoplay with high quality enabled as well.
What do you think?
-Ray
Using version 2.8.1 on two blogs and am not having any problems viewing videos in IE7 on either one, just checked although I usually use firefox.
Interesting read, thanks :o)
Indeed it does not work with IE7 so that would mean useless :) I think it's a bug or something. Any help would be appreciated.
Hello, after updgrade the plugin is causing the known "Operation Aborted" error with IE6 & 7.
Plz do solve it. I checked my blog, when activation and deactivating the plugin in and it turned out the Smart Youtube is causing the error.
Thank you.
Hi! Display videos in comments isn't working good. When I put the link to a youtube movie httpv:// , after submit the video is appear twice widh an extra > sign between. Why? Thanks!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfGrriXEmoM
Just wondering, what advantage does this offer over using the embed code that YouTube provides?
This way, i don't depend on youtube at all. That greater.
The plugin is great, my question is
Can the rating (1 starto 5 stars) be displayed on the video? The rating is displayed on the YouTube site, but when I import it into my WP BLog (Smart YouTube is activated) the rating doesn't display.
Am I doing something wrong? Please send reply to entered email address. THanks.
Yes, I checked on my other computer with IE6 and it does work with IE6.
I also tried putting a video on an almost new Wordpress 2.7.0 blog with no plugins or customisations and it still didn't work there in IE7.
If you'd like me to be your tester while you play with the plugin code, that's fine by me.
I don't have IE7, but those videos on your site work in IE6.
Sorry, I messed up my first attempt at posting.
I've just updated Smart Youtube to 2.8 in wordpress 2.7.1 and checked <a href="my post with videos. The videos show up in Firefox (and Opera) but not IE7 in Windows XP. I don't know whether this is a long-standing or new bug because I rarely touch Internet Explorer.
I've just updated smart youtube to 2.8 in wordpress 2.7.1 and checked <a href="" title="These videos don't work in ie">my post with videos. The videos show up in Firefox (and Opera) but not IE7 in Windows XP. I don't know whether this is a long-standing or new bug because I rarely touch Internet Explorer.
Appreciate the effort that went into producing a great plugin. Works a treat and has saved me lots of time having to manually delete and enter code.
Here's a working example on my website.
Is it possible to use this plugin with our own hosted videos?
For example, if i create some of my own Flash videos (.flv) and host them on my web site and display them by using a youtube-clone flash player.
This way, i don't depend on youtube at all.
Thank you.
Hi, i have the plugin on my sidebar, and if i make it smaller it is not centered anymore :(( How do i set it to be centered no matter waht size i choose, it must be set somewhere to either left or right....please help
I see it does work on pages, as well. Just make sure to enter the correct url:) Great plugin!
Can it work on a page, as well as a post?
Thanks for the tip Ray. Included in version 2.7.5.
Just trying out your plugin and I like it so far!
One suggestion:
We are using a customized "wp-content" directory, so it might be best to use WP_PLUGIN_URL for $wp_yte_plugin_url, instead of get_bloginfo('wpurl')/PLUGINDIR.
I love the plugin, but there is one (simple) thing keeping me from using it full time.
There should be at least one more width/height option so that HD and high quality videos can have separate sizes.
While that would basically do the trick, I should point out that to cover all bases you'd actually need five size options...
4:3
httpv:// - standard quality - size 1
httpvh:// - high quality - size 2
16:9
httpvv:// - standard quality - size 3
httpvhh:// - high quality - size 4
httpvhd:// - high def - size 5
I haven't had time to go through enough of the code to see where to change it yet, but the picture in the RSS feed that replaces the embedded video links to the HQ video even when it's set to HD. I think it's just an overlooked if-statement to make it 'fmt=22'.
great plugin vlad!
keep up the good work!
also really like your wordpress 2.7 themes: blue grace and amazing grace
OK, solved my problem: Just put the httpv:... URL into a post rather than by going through the "add media" process. No link line.
Now if only I can find that Options page!
I can put a YouTube video in a post, but a red line of code is visible beneath it. How to eliminate that?
My sidebar widget isn't cooperating at all. Where, exactly, can this fabled "Options" page be found? I sweat I don't have it.
Great plugin. Quite easy to handle youtube videos and configure the youtube player. Using for my technology blog.
Would like to know if is there any way to add adsense for video unit functionality along with this.
Version 2.7.4 adds an option to remove info & ratings.
Your plugin is the best. I'm hoping you can fix the problem with those ugly white titles and ratings now showing up on embedded YouTube videos. An option on your plugin to get rid of it would be great.
For those hand coding, you can remove it by adding "&showinfo=0" to the embed code.
Vladimir, having it as an option to select in the plugin would be great. And I'm sending you a paypal donation (small, but it's something) to thank you for your time and great work. Thanks Again! - Joe
Like the plugin, have been using it for quite a while.
Just wanted to let you know of something I noticed recently.
A youtube link with one hyphen like this works fine,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5W9H-JtE7E
A youtube link with two hyphens like this works fine I think,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5-9H-JtE7E
But a youtube link with two concurrent hyphens like this won't work,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5W9--JtE7E
Also hope you can strip this new rating crap that youtube instituted yesterday.
Thanks!
Thanks for making a great plugin. I find it a lot better than "Viper's Video Quicktags", and thats where my problem starts.
In VVQ the tags look like [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI-nkmwHNrc&feature=related[/youtube]. Is it possible to make SY support this tags (by switching a boolean in the PHP-file?) so I faster can force my users to use the httpv-kind?
Two suggestions:
One is regarding this plugin: Instead of linking back to video link in youtube in feed, can you pls add option of linking back to the post so that traffic does not get diverted from feeds out of the blog?
Second suggestion is regarding your blog: I can only see main comments on any of your post and rest of your comments and pages are hidden unless I submit a comment. Pls fix this bug too.
Vladimir is it possible to create a button on the add new post page when you are in visual mode? So when my users click the button they only have to put in the Youtube link and all code get posted into the post. My users are totally noob at html. They mostly work in the visual mode.
Let me know if its possible.
p.s: With visual buttons i mean the buttons like align,spellchecker,Insert / edit embedded media, etc.
Vladimir is it possible to create a button on the add new post page when you are in visual mode? So when my users click the button they only have to put in the Youtube link and all code get posted into the post. My users are totally noob at html. They mostly work in the visual mode.
Let me know if its possible
This plugin is really great. Is there any possibility of using it not only in posts/pages/sidebar widget? For example in a wp template to show random videos from a playlist?
Hello,
Great plugin! How can I turn off "related videos" in embedded players
http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=75301
Is there a way to set '&rel=0'
Thanks!
That sounds like a good idea, stay tuned.
Hey :) Could you add support for disabling annotations? That would be great :) (http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=92712)
Maybe I am just technically challenged but I can't figure out how to use Smart youtube. I have activated the plug-in. Can anyone help?
The videos seem to upload and play perfectly when I place the plugin as a widget in the sidebar, but when I try to embed the video in the post I get a comment within the player that states the following:
The video you have requested is not available.
If you have recently uploaded this video, you may need to wait a few minutes for the video to process.
Any thoughts on why this happens when placing it in the post?
Caldo
I love your plugin. I would like to make a suggestion on a upgrade that I have not seen in any plugin for YouTube video. I would like to be able to do a word wrap around my video.
For example, left or right align the video and then have my text wrap around the video.
Another beautiful feature would be to have Google Adsense show directly below my video.
Just two thoughts. Otherwise, great plugin!
I had trouble with this plugin too when I first tried it. It would work perfectly in Firefox but IE wouldn't load the page. I discovered that the culprit, in my case, was Lightbox. I deactivated Lightbox and have not had any problems since then.
Hey there looks like a great plugin, I just tested it and it works perfectly in firefox, being on a mac I used a plugin to test render it in ie 7 and it doesn't show up, can anyone tell me from a PC point of view does this work in ie 6/7 and above?
Thanks and great work!
smart youtube is the plugin that saves me the most time -- and formats the video quite nicely. it is a godsend, saving me from all that youtube crappy embed code.
THANK YOU! i am going to visit your donation page right now.
For my iNove theme the side bar option would be great and also to have 'x' amount down the side bar. But the standard iNove theme is not wide enough. I tried the embed code from youtube but that dont work. Seems can only put the httpv// links in so i won't be able to use it. Need a small youtube side bar thing that when you click it takes you to the big blog post, don't necessarily need to be able to play small utubes in the side bar. It will just be luring and look nice!
Also for feedback it would be really great if it could put a small vid in the sidebar of the later blog vid posts. I'm going to be doing hundreds of them.
As usual if you want to experiment with my site go right ahead. I will give you an admin login.
it looks great, i will give it a try on videoimmagini.com !
if it will work as you say on rssfeeds it would be really smashing.
Will this work with the YouTube Custom Player? We have several videos grouped together in playlist and then set in YouTube Custom Player becuase we need to be able to play all. You can see a sample on a page at the old website at http://www.tomjacksonproductions.com/products/allroads.php for a sample. The link looks like this http://www.youtube.com/cp/vjVQa1PpcFNcs_Sg7RQux604L_Zxu_TR81kf7T4NJfI=
I tried using this but can't get it to work. Any suggestions?
@Fritz
I thought about that, but if I make the hi-res version bigger, it will mess up my other vids that look good at that size.
I think we need a widescreen parameter in addition to the HD parameter.
Thanks
sorry, I meant @Ross
@Vladimir
in your wordpress back-end under settings and smartyoutube you can set the size of the video displayed . . .
Did you try/mean that?
Hey there!
First of all, thnaks for that great plugin, I use it a lot.
One feature I´m missing though and this could also be useful to all this problems with IE6 and so on.
As I found out users need to have Adobe Flash Player and Java installed. If not either videos cannot be played or videos don´t show up at all.
A fix to that problem would be to show users who don´t meet the above requirements that they need to install a current version of Adobe Flash Player and/or get Java.
Does anybody know how to do that?
Best, Fritz
Hi Vladimir,
How do I properly embed this video with high-quality?:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn9-y-wOFiA
If I do httpvh, and play in window, it looks too small.
If I do httpvhd, and play in window, it says the video is no longer available.
Thanks,
Ross
Thanks for all!!!
BTW, the demo on this page works in IE7 but my vid did not.
When I used this, it worked great in Firefox but I could not load the page in IE 7. As soon as I took the post with the vid off, IE 7 loads the page again. Has anyone else run into this problem and if so, how can it be fixed. I LOVED how it worked when viewing from Firefox.
Hi!
I really like that this plugin is very easy to use. Still, the reason I tried to use it was to get a valid embed, unfortunately this is not the case. Are there any settings i need to alter to get a valid xhtml code or is it just not... OK now i see! It actually works.
Thank you very much for this plugin. Love it!!!
Thanks for the input Vladimir. Maybe its my ie6.
Works fine in IE6 for me.
Hello...I'm using your youtube plugin...one problem....it does not work with ie6. It works fine with firefox, but I still have many users who use ie6 (mostly asian countries).
I notice that your demo on this page does not display in ie6 either. If you have ie6, you can check it out. When using ie6, it displays on your page, just like it does on my page....a big square with a small red x in it. Is there a fix or a way to get the video to dislay when using ie6
Thanks
Thnx for creating this wonderful plugin. Everything works fine but I see extra link right below my videos.
Like this :
onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview ('/outbound/www.youtube.com');">Metal Gear Solid Mobile
When I click on it it takes me to "http://mysite/smarttube...span class"
Pls tell me why am I getting this and how can I remove it?
THX U !
I love it !
oh yeah! its a great plugin ! its works!!! thanks a lot
A good addition to the plugin (which I love) would be to add the option to remove annotations from videos.
Also getting the Call to undefined function register_sidebar_widget() fatal error in WP 2.7!
I dont think this works quite right in WP 2.7 yet. I get duplicate of the same videos with broken codes and links.
You are most welcome :)
I had already subscribed to your blog but as soon as I saw that you were featuring one of Where In the Hell is Matt?'s videos I knew you had won a fan for life! (smile)
Thanks for all the great info -
Tracy Phaup
Funny, but the clip I tried to upload works fine in Youtube, but won't when I tried to use in on the blog. When I put in a different clip, that one loaded right up.
I've tried to load a video into my blog using this. I've been at it for 3 hours. No matter what I do, it just shows it as a link in the message. Doesn't matter if I use IE or Firefox.
How the heck can I add youtube video into my post.
I have installed the plugins and now what. How do I display the video on my post.
Do I have to post the youtube video manually or it will do do automatically using rss feed.
If rss feed, how do I go about setting it.
Thanks
Vladimir!
Great job on keeping up with YouTube's changes!!
I got really excited and started embedding my videos in HD, but now I find that a LOT of my users have difficulty viewing HD on their computers... so I am going to go back to embedding at just high quality, not high def.
I was wondering.. do you think it would be possible to create some kind of javascript that would allow a viewer to click an HD link below the video and start watching in HD if they had the ability? Similar to what YouTube does?
That would be so awesome! I just don't know Javascript well enough to hack together something like that.
What do you think? Is it doable?
Thanks again!
Marina
thanks for the great plugin
everything works great on my site except when i tried the HD version it wont start the clip. i have to change back to High Quality version in order for it to play, any idea?
thanks!
I am getting the same error which the guys below has stated. I am using wp 2.7, this only happened after I upgraded to the latest version of the plugin yesterday.
I get the same error message as below. Plugin seems to be working fine, however.
v2.7 gives fatal error on line 542 when trying to activate any plugin.
It reads: "Fatal error: Call to undefined function register_sidebar_widget() in /wp-content/plugins/smart-youtube/smartyoutube.php on line 542"
Fatal error: Call to undefined function register_sidebar_widget() in /wp-content/plugins/smart-youtube/smartyoutube.php on line 542
I have this error every time I activate a plugin. Also is there a way to resize videos in sidebar?
Thanx.
Call to undefined function register_sidebar_widget() in /home/navjot/public_html/downloadvideos/wp-content/plugins/smart-youtube/smartyoutube.php on line 542
This error comes in 2.7 version.
This plugin is awesome! I only wish there were a way to turn-off the annotations, as most of them become superfluous when on another website other than youtube...
SmartYoutube version 2.7 is out today with support for sidebar widget videos.
Do you know a way to make this work in the sidebar widgets? It doesn't work in the text widget or the php exec widget.
thanks
Easily embeds YouTube videos to BLOG
Cool plugsin I love it. Just wondering if the same concept can be done for other file format, for example I have url for a wma file format, what do I need to change so that the wma url httm:// something like that to pull in the window media player instead of youtube? Thanks, sorry this might be off topic, please direct me to where I can get help.
Hello thanks for the great product,
Just wondering though is there away to display youtube thumbnails using this system?
Hi!
I have your Smart YouTube 2.6 version but allways parameter showsearch=0 even if I check to Show Search in settings panel. Can you help me with this? Thanks!
Thank you very much for the plugin. I use it for several months now and it works perfectly!! Thanks again for you work :-)
Many greetings from Germany
Alper
Roy thanks for the tip. Version 2.6 with search box removal added.
With the new YouTube "search bar" in the embedded videos, is there a way to remove that via this plug in itself?
http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/player_parameters.html#showsearch
Maybe a plugin update is in order? Thanks!
Does it support the Widescreen embed feature of Youtube?
Hi,
I really like this little plug-in. I'm using it with 2.7 Beta 3 but I can't find the options page you show in the screenshots above so I can change the sizes and stuff.
Can anyone help?
Cheers, Mark.
**please disregard**
It turns out that the link was automatically generated while I was editing the date post.
Thanks for a great plugin! :)
Hey Vladimir, I really dig your plugin but I noticed earlier today that it randomly stopped working. It simply won't read the code, do you know what it could be? The code was used on: http://liliumbosnacium.com/2008/11/24/adi-lukovac-creative-music-pioneer-of-the-bosnian-electronica-scene/
hvala unaprijed,
lijep pozdrav!
Just popping in to say that I love Smart Youtube. My site couldn't exist without it! I've been using it for some time now and it's still simple, straightforward and reliable.
Actually I'd been using it for some time before I realised that it was by Vladimir - who also designed the theme I use, Amazing Grace.
Well i tried you plugin in my Godaddy word press account http://www.bobspicklepopsblog.com and i am getting HTML code showing up in my blog surrounding the video and i cannot get the video to size properly even though i changed the size values.
Love this plugin. At first it did not show up in my Plugins page. I realized when I unzipped it, it made 2 folders. I just uploaded it again but opened the 1st folder and then uploaded. That way you do not have 2 folders with same name. Then I saw it on my Plugins page.
Added support for HD (high definition, 720p) videos! Download version 2.5 today.
Looking forward to using this plugin. So far I have not been able to get it to work. I entered the URL into the editor, with the 'v" included and the URL just shows up in my post, not the video. What am I doing wrong?
Funciona. Gràcies.
Hi Vladimir,
I am getting the following error when I Enable xHTML Validation, I am running Firefox
Not Found
The requested URL /<span class= was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Just now, "fmt=22" option has come. Cool stuff!:)
Watch YouTube Videos in 720p by Adding "&fmt=22" to the Link
Vladimir,
This plugin is much better than entering in the YouTube path manually. I tried another YouTube plugin but went back to hand coding because it's easier to remember.
I will head over to Wordpress and give a thumbs up for this Smart YouTube plugin. Now to recode all my previous blog posts :)
Good plagin long been looking for him very much
@Vladimir - Hi, the smart youtube plugin is not showing up in my plugin page to activate it on my wordpress blog. What do I need to do?
Thanks,
Caleb
reply was in the comments... thanks Vladimir! Sorry I can't delete my post :(
Vladimir, what a great plugin!!! btw, what new in the latest update dated today 7/nov? I can't find any info about it.
greetings!
mike
Released a small update today to address the rss feed issue as well the issue Marina mentioned.
@Jon - have you figured it out yet? I too have the same problem of it not showing up in my activate plugin page.
Can more than one video be featured in the same pane? For example, have one box for the video and have several videos accessible from that one interface?
First of all, this is a great plugin, especially when I use my RSS to import into other apps, like Facebook.
I needed to add a few things in order to get high quality videos to work properly. First the default height of the video is 360px, but the embedded player has a height of 385px, which I just changed in the settings in WP.
The other bigger issue was the link in the RSS feed pointing to the wrong URL. the property at the end of the URL needed to be "&fmt=18" instead it was going to "&ap=%2526fmt%3D18". That requires a separate variable in the PHP code for the URL and the embedded code. I would've included my changes below, but your spam filter won't let my comment through even with
codeThanks Vladimr for the update. This is really a much needed feature.
Thanks again.
Cheers,
Vijay
http://www.vijayforvictory.com
Released version 2.4 with support for video deep linking. More information in this post: http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/embedding-youtube-video-deep-linking-with-smart-youtube-plugin
@HotForWords - Marina please send me the code you change for HQ thumbs. When did you learn to code ? ;)
YouTube now has HIGH QUALITY thumbnails (still images)... but I had to change the code of your plugin to show them. Oh.. and YouTube now shows ADS on embedded videos (which is good for producers of content, obviously)
Anyway... Vladimir, go to my website and check out my latest videos.. you see the HQ Thumbs and the ads. It's pretty cool.
I removed: rel=0 and the color stuff from the plugin to make them work.. the second I put rel=0 in and it goes back to low quality thumbs and no ads.
Marina
http://www.hotforwords.com
I wanted to test dailymotion plug :
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6zq1v_agoria-modeselektor-boysnoize-pfadf_music
I just did what HotForWords did & my iPod Touch is now showing the YouTube previews. Thanks HotForWords!
YouTube videos are showing up as blue lego blocks on my iPod Touch again. Not sure what update caused this. Can you help Vladimir? Thanks.
thanks for the plugin, works great with youtube videos. Only issue that I notice is that when I select a lightbox picture on the same page as the video box it open behind the box.
not an issues, just for you to note.
Thanks for this excelent and very easy-to-use plugin.
We made a spanish lenguage translation of the "readme" file, you can find it here:
http://blog.sietecoyote.com/2008/10/11/smart-youtube-plugin-para-wordpress/
maybe soon, we can continue with the translation of the plugin's admin panel.
please check it and let us know your suggestions.
I'm having the same issue as Jon. I've uploaded the plugin but it doesn't show up on the Plugin management page to activate it. It works fine on another site that I use it on.
Actually.. never mind... I turned ON XHTML validation and then turned it back off... and now it appears to work.. maybe it had to reset itself?
I think it works now.
Vladimir,
My iPhone preview does not work anymore.. it worked on earlier versions but no longer works. I turned off the Xhtml validation.. but still no luck.
Can you see what is wrong? http://www.hotforwords.com
Thanks!
Marina
I just did a fresh install of Wordpress and this is the second plugin I was going to add but it doesn't show up in the Plugin management area to active.
Any idea why it wouldn't show up?
Thanks
Jon
for some videos it works alright but for some I have issues.
For example... Lenka - The Show :
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nTSU-mFWGs
The preview image is working on my blog but when you click on play, it says video is not available (something you get when the video does not exist usually).
Am I doing something wrong?
Gosh Vladimir...I just can't 'thank you enough'...this was just so easy to install. One less headache, and it's working great...I have a bunch of video's I have to move over from my old blogging platform, and I am so happy with the simplicity of this tool...I am just beaming...8o)
Great plugin. Thank you very much!!
@Oriol You can find the solution here.
hi. Thanks for plugin
perfect.
Best Regards
Plugin was working great but all of a sudden this morning it no longer works. Since I don't know when it broke I don't have any idea what broke it.
Great plugin !!
But why does it not works with the excerpt of a post ? Because the pictures are display in the excerpt.
It will be great if it does, and if we also can choose to display in excerpt or not !!
Cheers.
Great plugin, thank you man!
Plugin works BUT when click on it I go to youtube.com instead of playing the video in line with my post/page. I use latest version 2.2.1 and tried FF, IE and Chrome, all the same.
When clicked you see the video start playing but before start I jump to Youtube.com.
Only when I use autoplay the video plays in line?! But this won't works for multiple vids in one post/page.
Please, can anyone help me with this? Thanks a lot!
Dear Friend,
First to congratulate him on this great utility that I am using with WordPress and that is a real luxury to make videos.
Secondly, I wanted to discuss the problem that I have met and that only happens to me the "Internet Explorer", in contrast with the other not.
Using WordPress with a theme called "Mandigo" and what happens is that in this particular browser width of the sale of the video is reduced to 25% of what it should be, while any other browser does not occur.
It said it because I've been looking at the forums and I have not found anything like this and I wonder if any inconsistency, and so incidentally, help improve your product.
Sincerely, Oriol.
wo falow ak est akem espciel est in all ,bok ,baibai.....
Good plugin.
Thank you.
Jason, can you pls send me the url of your site so as to chack it with my iphone?
I upgraded to 2.2.1 and the YouTube videos work fine on my regular site and my iPhone/iPod Touch site.
still nothing. I used the 2.2.1 version. Have you tried yourself and it's ok, or not? Do i have to make any adjustments?
Let's try with 2.2.1 I have added two different codes for normal sites and iPhone
I upgraded the plugin, but i cannot see any changes to my iphone. I cannot see the video from the youtube...
I fixed the validation problem in today's version. Can someone confirm if the video show on Iphone now?
Unfortunately my website fails to validate the HTML. I am using the most up-to-date version, does anyone know why it will not validate?
http://www.bananasontoast.org/
I must be the only one who can't get your plug in to work. The plug in is says it is activated in the plugins admin.
http://www.liveleanblog.com/2008/08/22/animal-pak-zero-side-effects-complete-multivitamin-review/
You can see I added the v. Any help would be appreciated.
Can you have this plugin display youtube videos by keyword or tags?
Kinda like this plugin (which doesn't seem to work):
http://blog.ubrio.us/php/youtube-wordpress-plugin-with-technorati-tags/
Please discuss all Smart Youtube related issues in plugin forum.
Works well when I take a look at your site both in FF and IE ;)
Vladimir, I use several of your plugins on my site. Great job! Thanks!
One question. I upgraded Smartyoutube to 2.1.4 today and now when I am on a single post page the sidebar is way down on the right side instead beside the post where it was before. Do you know what could have caused that and/or how I can fix that.
Thanks!
-Harv
I like this plugin very much. Thanx
Works great! Thanks for that!
Jejune is such a pretty sounding word.. but what it means is not so pretty! Comes from the Latin Jejunus which means "fasting" and as such.. the word means barren, poor, empty.. as well as dull, uninteresting, lacking substance.
But it also means naïve, but that's the result of a false etymology.. where people thought that the origin of the word was a similar sounding Latin word juvenis, where juvenile comes from.. meaning young.
I'll put it in my list of words to do.. maybe I'll make a video about it.
:-)
Marina
Thanks to your persistence I've been able to find the problem and the updated version 2.1.4 is available now.
Btw I've always wanted to learn more about english word 'jejune', have you featured it? It is one of the most beautiful words to me too.
Wow.. your website won't let me post my comment that I wrote before. (maybe I can't post links?)
With wordtube I am able to make the width and height 500x400.. an example can be found on my website... I guess I can't post links... arggghhh!!!!!
Go to my website and then go here: /2008/07/25/mums-the-word/
But when I make your settings 500x400 it gets stuck at 349 height but 500 width works: /2008/08/16/nickname/
So your plugin used to allow me to make my videos taller than 349 (your options page above even shows t a 360 height) yet the plugin won't output a height larger than 349 for me all of a sudden. I even looked at the numbers in the database and it shows that they larger number is going into the database.. but the plugin is just refusing to output the larger height for some reason.
Marina, new Wordpress or smart youtube itself does not have anything to do with the height of the video - the height value is only printed out and sent to Youtube. So it can only be a limit from Youtube side which you can verify by embedding a video directly.
Weird.. all of a sudden I cannot make the height any larger than 439 for HQ videos. I don't know what happened.
do you have any suggestions? I upgraded to 2.6.1 Wordpress.. rebooted my server.. then all my videos had weird dimensions.. so I tried to change the HQ settings but they are stuck at 439.
Can I delete a table in mysql or something?
Thanks!
Marina
Just installed the new version and now it's not XHTML valid :(
http://www.photolulu.com/shutterbug/
Great plugin, I think it also solves a problem with user roles - ie. from what I can gather you need to be an editor or above to embed a video. Of course, I'm a bit of noob, but either way it now works. Thanks for the plugin again.
Works great, thanks :D
Videos does not shown to iphone. I have only placed smarttube to this post http://menz.gr/site/?p=527 but i cannot see any difference. I still cannot see youtube videos. Pls help
hi. Thanks for plugin
perfect.
Regards
Oh.. didn't realize there was an update.. it didn't show in the plugin update notification thing in my backend.
Thanks for the compliments.. you can always email me if you want to try things out.. I upload a video every day to YouTube and they get seen about a half a million to a million times a day.. so I am a HEAVY user of embedding YouTube vids. :-)
Marina
hotforwords: Thanks for the feedback! I am constantly working on improving the plugin and the object tag error has actually been addressed in the latest update today (v2.1.2). Nice site btw ;)
LOVE your plugin.. I have 230 videos on my website so I will be switching all my videos over to your plugin! I DID notice a coding error.. you forgot to put the close bracket on the first object tag.. the result is that the videos play for most people but not everyone.
I fixed it on my website... it's line 416 in your smartyoutube.php file.. I noticed that your old commented out code is also missing the close bracket so it's a problem you have had for a while I presume.
Thanks for making this!
Marina
peter: thanks!
melain: yes please do send the code to my email (found on the contact page)
vlad....just downloaded the plugin again since it is compatible with 2.6. Very easy to use and the modification are awesome. Thanks again and keep up with the great and most awesome work
Hello Vladimir
great plugin again - thanks.
I have (as always with me) modified the html code in the plugin to make it fully xhtml1.1 compliant.
You can see it running on my page http://www.melain.be/wordpress and check for validity with the links in the footer.
xhtml1.1 - ok
html4.01 - ok
section 508 - ok
I can send you the modified code if you are interested in it because I don't know if it's possible to put it in this comment without breaking something.
Regards,
Michel.
Hi Vladimir,
My sincere thanks for your efforts.
I just installed 2.1.1. And still I am getting the related videos at the end of play.
You can check here.
http://www.vijayforvictory.com/2008/07/brilliant-performance/
I double checked on the settings page and confirmed on "Don't Include Related Videos" check.
Could you please advice me to fix this?
Cheers,
Vijay
Relevant video fixed in v2.1.1
Vladimir, thanks for the full screen feature. It is amazing.
I have two observations -
1. I could not set "Include Releated Videos". Even if I select it is being saved as "Don't include Releated videos". I don't know whether is it a wordpress issue or not.
2. Even if I set "Don't Include Related Videos", all related videos are being shown.
Out of these two, I would appreciate if you fix atleast the second one.
I am giving a sample video in my blog for your reference.
http://www.vijayforvictory.com/2008/07/brilliant-performance/
Thanks for your effort.
Cheers,
Vijay
Installed 2.1 and love the iPhone/iPod Touch compatibility! Thank you!
Version 2.1 out today. Changes:
- Compatible with iPhone
- Allows full screen display
I can confirm it's working fine with WPMU 2.6RC1. Thanks again sir!
Is there a way to have the plugin display YouTube videos to display the “box” instead of the link via iPod Touch or iPhone. If you aren’t sure what I am talking about & have time (I would highly appreciate it), please email me and I’ll send you two screenshots I took using my iPod Touch. One is using your plugin and the other is using the embed code directly from YouTube. Thank you in advance for any help you can give me.
Hi,
Just now I installed 2.0.1. Is there any way to hide the related videos?
That would be really helpful.
Vijay
Hi Vladimir,
First of all, a big thanks for your Smart Youtube plugin. It is very simple and powerful.
I have a small suggestion,
It would be better if this plugin supports the allow maximizing option. Most of the users want to see the video in full screen without going to youtube site.
If this feature is configurable in the settings page, that would be really great.
One one the best YouTube plugin. It's so easy to use. Mahalo.
I have the same question about wordpress 2.6. The plugin doesn't show up in my plugin list. Are there going to be anymore updates with it. This plugin has worked absolute wonders for my blog. Thankyou for your work.
This is exactly what i was looking for many thanks!
Seems to be compatible with WP 2.6... disregard my previous comment.
Any chance it'll be updated for WP 2.6 that just came out?
i don't see why it wouldn't work with MU, but then again I haven't tried it.
Is there any reason this plugin wouldn't work as a MU plugin? I'd like to offer it to all blogs, but not allow users to edit the settings.
Thanks in advance.
High quality video (httpvh) issue sorted out in v2.0.1
I post a video and when i try to view, shows me a message "this video is no longer available" and the video still is there in youtube. Maybe i have a problem with my hosting or maybe is the plugin?
I wrote two "httpvh" link in one post.
This plugin did not affected.
httpv is OK.
Hey Vlad, is there any setting or tweek for adjusting the buffer size to help people out with slow connections?
Thanks - Darrell
FYI - Works great in Opera 9.51
Same thing happens to me, it just shows the link
Hmmm....updated a video link that has HQ and all it does is post the link text (non linked) in the post. Am I missing something?
Uhhh..wow. Now that's service. :D
I guess you all are going to looove version 2.0 then ;)
Fantastic plugin, Vladimir. I'd like to add to the chorus of voices about adding support for high quality vids in the next release please.
This plugin is simply great, I had a look at a few, and none offered the configuration options this one does. Nice work. Could you maybe add the fmt= option in a future version? I know that not all youtube videos support it, but the ones that do have way better video quality.
http://www.baekdal.com/notes/personal/youtube-high-video-quality/
Hi, it would be nice to be able to configure the plugin to play hi-quality video. I only seem to be able to get low-quality playback.
Hi, it would be nice to be able to embed high-quality video. I only seem to be able to see the low quality one when I
Awesome - This is just too simple. Works like a charm for me!
Hi again Vladimir, the problem with the view of the videos when using Firefox emerged again.
It was fixed for a while, but now I have it again - when I watch the videos in my blog with IE - no problem, when I use FF - it redirects me to the YouTube site and cannot be watched in my blog.
Hi vlad, goood work as like others said :)
but i really would like to give you idea about... ehem wondering if its possible to make this plugin, somewhat REALLy smart plugin which can read blog title, search on youtube on that topic and automatically post it in that blog. you know somewaht it can save alot of times for some busy bloggers ;)
Cheers
http://www.bohora.com
ps: oh by the way, bookmarking your blog :) i love peace colors!!!
Version 1.91 is out with minor tweaks.
Gotcha MadHyde, thanks for that.
Hello Vladimir!
I noticed 404 error.
Line 365 in smartyoutube.php v1.9.
x src="img/preview_embed_blank_sm.gif"
o src="../wp-content/plugins/smart-youtube/img/preview_embed_blank_sm.gif"
Guys, you need to paste the text directly into the post, not create a link of it.
Hey Vladimir,
I'm having the same issue on http://www.bigorangebox.com. Everything worked fine until earlier this week...
Upgraded to version 1.9 but when YouTube videos are clicked they start playing for a second then I get a 404 error (this is only when using Firefox 2.x on Windows XP).
Love the plugin -- are you working on this issue?
Thanks!
Have you guys installed a plugin the changes the post content somehow?
I've tested Smart YouTube 1.9 on both this and another blog and it still works fine.
Darn - my YouTube videos appear to be broken as well. Using the Thesis theme, but also tried switching to others with the same result. This is bumming me out because this was my favorite WP plug-in - please help!
this is weird. all my videos just disappeared. the embed code still shows up, but no videos.
not sure if the youtube api changed or what.
after realizing the videos were not showing up, i ugraged to 1.9, but the videos still don't show up.
not sure what's going on.
Hello!
Now the weird thing with the template is that when a post is made and it's on the homepage, an error messages shows where the video should be saying:
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
But when you click to go to the actual post, the YouTube video shows fine. I'm not switching browsers or anything either. How can it say I need flashplayer enabled on the homepage, but then when I go to the actual post the video works fine?
Thanks.
It did not work for me. It shows only Title text, as text link.
I am using FireFox 2. Someone below here had the same problem, seems...
Hey, the autoplay feature works globaly.
Is there a way of selectively turning it on? I want it to auto play on the front page but I also have a video page with more than 1 video and I don't want them to all play at once. If not I will put them on separate pages to solve the problem.
Thanks again
Thanks Vlad,
I'll download the plugin and install it tomorrow.
Bruce
I would like to have the same thing, without the "V" in http ...
Autoplay option added in the newest version 1.9. Enjoy!
Vladimir,
You saved the day again. I was trying to get YouTube videos on my posts for 2 days on my clients blog with no luck, after installing your pluging 2 minutes later my problem is solved. I appreciate all your efforts.
I would like the option of having the video auto start when the page opens and saw the code "&autoplay=1" used successfully elsewhere.
Do you know of an option to have a YouTube video auto start while using your plugin? Thanks again.
Bruce Jones
DesignAndPromote.com
Hi, am using your plugin and it worked great so far (v 1.6). Tried to update to v 1.8 bu that caused problems. After the upgrade (tried automatic and manual) it doesn't show on the plugin page anymore. It is in the top menu now, but still works ok. Only the dashboard cannot be used anymore, for example to change color schemes. Uninstalled and installed several times, but that didn't help. Back to 1.6 now. Any idea?
Reinstalling macromedia flash worked for me and solved firefox 3 issues. What spam plugin, I dont have one?
It's not just KeepingYouAwake who's having trouble with Firefox 3 and this plugin. Your plugin works awesome with every other browser I've tried, but shows nothing for Firefox 3 browsers -- no link, no anything.
UPDATE: OK, I can now see KeepingYouAwake's follow-up -- and I also use AdBlock so that must be the problem (although I never changed any configuration...) Feel free to delete this comment.
Anyway -- thanks for the great plugin! Keep up the good work!
How about a built in search link for movies right from the Post? Just as http://www.hyves.net/ is using for their members. Works great and very handy. Not everyone nows how to C&P an url and place this (+ http "v") in a post..
Also a lightbox feature (on/off) would be a great and neat feature. Extra advantage would be the movie centers horizontal and vertical, no mores scrolling :D
Thanks,
Steven
My apologies, I found the problem. I use adblock on all the machines I use and, pending an update to the adblock plugin, the plugin is disrupting the dynamic insertion of flash components even if it's in disabled mode. The plugin itself must be disabled for proper functionality.
Note: most users will not be able to use adblock until the next release comes out anyway, mine was only working due to a configuration specification I made to make the exception, leading to the failure. ;)
Thanks anyway, and sorry for any confusion. Excellent work!
It seems I rushed a bit with the decision. I can confirm bloglines supports embedded youtube but I can also confirm google reader does not at the moment. I think it is a matter of days before they start doing it.
Thanks for the notification though.
Hi there, I cannot see the RSS settings anymore. You said the it's not necessary anymore because version 1.8 put the video automatically into the RSS. This is valid for google reader as well? Can you confirm this?
Thanks,
Matheus Zeuch
http://surfeio.com.br
Installing latest version of Flash from Macromedia site fixes issues with Firefox 3 freezing on youtube videos.
Yes, the normal embedding still works, but the plugin doesn't work with the released Firefox 3 for me at all either. Seems like a substantial problem with "record" downloads yesterday. hehe
I wish I could help, but I would be glad to test for you.
post using Smart Youtube: http://jonscottdesign.com/?p=157
post using YouTube code: http://jonscottdesign.com/?p=131
Any ideas?
From version 1.8 the video is automatically inserted into the RSS feed, so this panel is not necessary anymore..
Hi there,
Thanks for this great plugin it certainly makes my clients life a lot easier.
In your last screen shot on this page, your admin section shows options to show the video in RSS.
Everything is working fine for me apart from the fact that the RSS options aren't showing in my admin section.
I'm using version 1.8 on a fresh install of the latest wordpress.
Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks again,
S
Does normal youtube embed code work in FF3? If not then the problem is with FF3 beta.
I'm beta testing Firefox 3 which will release next week and the videos won't display. Could this be similar to the swfobject.js not working in FF3 either?
Just a heads-up, but this will require a fast fix because the FF team is trying to set a record number of downloads that day, which is great news for web dev people. :) On the other hand it means major problems to your users unless it's just me, somehow...
It wouldn't show because the redears were stripping off embedded code, therefore I had to make at least a screenshot appear which was much better then nothing.
The next version of youtube will have full video in rss.
I'm not sure what you meant about "would not show", it's not a living entity, it either embeds or not :-)
what I do appreciate is the simplicity of the embedding, just giving the URL and the plug in with resize it, I like that, I just want it embedded in the RSS as well. can you at least have that as an option? that would make this plug-in a better choice for me.
Before not too long, the video would not show in the reader so having a screenshot was a plus. Many people including me find it easier to paste the url then the embed code, because that is what someone would be sending to you if they wanted to show you the video.
umm... today I just plop in the embedding code from YT and maybe edit for size. It even gives the full code in the RSS so my readers can watch the vid right there in Google Reader and probably other readers, instead of getting just a screenshot, so what am I missing really? sounds like this plugin give me _less_ than a copy and a paste from yuoutube does... what am I missing?
Outstanding plugin ..running wp2.5 thanks for a really neat, simple plugin that does what it claims! A+++
What video sites you would like to see for next version? I plan on adding support for other popular sites for version 2.0
I addressed this issue in a next release which should be up tomorrow. Thanks for the feedback.
I seem to be returning a lot of validation errors - mostly due to additional parameters being specified after the object location, eg:
data="http://www.youtube.com/v/E37qiafjT4E&rel=1&color1=3a3a3a&color2=999999&border=0"It's all the &border &color stuff..
Here's my validation fail page:
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Falex.leonard.ie%2F2008%2F06%2F06%2Fbeing-fellated-by-a-groupie%2F
Just realised why this is happening, you have to make sure the line
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blah...
is unformatted in the visual editor in wordpress, the visual editor could turn it into a link which is the cause of the problem...
Hi,
I am having the same issue as Tanya, when i view the embedded video in firefox it all looks good until I press play, then I am taken to the Youtube page rather than it playing within the browser?
Vladimir,
I added the "v" to the uTube citation and I get a small "block" tab in my blog article where the video should appear. I'm not terribly tech savy, so would appreciate your help & guidance.
ross
Hi.. me again
to pass the validation DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN
I had to change the & into & in the code.
For the WAI A1 because of the missing alternativ text in the I added a general text before the as
" the Youtube video,as presented on this blogpost".
It's ok now
Hi Vladimir... it's great and usefull.. but isn't possible to have the same for our " dailymotion" http://www.dailymotion.com ? I think no, as there is no public API :(
the effin best plug in ever. the rest can eat a load of crap.
keep up the great work
http://www.jamestran.net/
Great plugin, easy to use. Thanks to you, its make a wonderfull video blogging so easy to create now.
More question: can it works to insert video sharing from another site ?
Does not work for this site:
http://www.videoku.tv
http://www.seleb.tv
since those two site are new video sharing site for my country.
Cheers ! :)
Worked perfectly, right out of the box. Up and running in less than 3 minutes. This plugin rocks! Thanks so much.
What a great plugin! Thank you Vladimir! A little help please!
I want to embed part of the video on the front view of my video not the video Icon. Would you help?
Installed am happy.
Would like to be able to wrap text properly and completely around the video box instead of in line from the bottom - a la proper use of whitespace.
Any thoughts?
Radi se na tome.. ;)
Super ;) aj sad napravi isto za Google Videos sa pretrazivacem i ja te platim u nebrusenim dijamantima
Hi, thanks for the cool plugin :-)
Today I discovered that when I open my blog with Firefox and want to watch the youtube videos and press play, I am transferred to the youtube site to watch them there. This is not that problem when I am using IE.
Jane, it seems to be a problem with WordPress. Namely Wordpress replaces all x surrounded by numbers into multiplication character (ouch!). Really strange why they decided to do that.
Anyways I am releasing today a new version addressing this problem, let me know if that works for you.
Fantastic job. I'm impressed and grateful.
Bill
love your plugin. normally it works fine but when i tried to add this particular video, the letter x in the id is changed to '×' in the html source:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1x8DJC8ZZY
any ideas why? i tried disabling all other plugins, but that didn't solve the problem
Aha!
I was using a second plugin that was "helping." All better now!
I still see a link on your site. You should just copy the text do not make a link out of it.
I released a new version of Smart Youtube plugin today it brings some very cool features.
Thanks for the quick reply! But all I'm adding is this:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2EQiVHqQqQ
And I get two of them...
Of course, it works great here! What's wrong with my Wordpress?...
Adrienne,
Just past the url to the video, do not make a link of it and it will work fine.
Hi Vladimir-
Thank you for the great plugin. I've gotten it to work before, but this morning adding a video produces two embeds with random code.
http://pacificchurch.com/index.php/women/
(at the bottom)
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Adrienne
I found the problem: These videos have embedding disabled.
I'm running into the same problem as eXpressions above: The videos show up in the posts, but when you press play it just says, "We're sorry, this video is no longer available." The videos do work if I try to play them directly from YouTube.
I'm using WordPress MU, version 1.3.3 (equivalent to WP 2.3.3) and viewing with IE7.
my mistake.
as steve said, just enter the url of the youtube video in your post, and add a V.
too easy. dont think too much.
thanks alot
have just installed it on 2.5.1 and working fine.
when i press play on the video in firefox, it says that firefox doesnt know what to do with httpv.
hi there .thanks for plugin:
Does anybody know if tis script is compatible with Wordpress 2.5.1 ?
Thanks in advance for any help on this!
best regards
I love this you tube plugin...thanks for your effort.
I'm just thinking, perhaps it would be easier for the users if we could have the "V" put in automatically? IE: if there was a button on the editor to add a youtube video which bought up a dialog box which you can then paste the youtube code in, and when you press ok it will put it in your post, but with the "V" ..?
A few of our videos that we have put on our blog using smart you-tube
no longer work, the image is there but when you press play you get
the message "We're sorry that video is no longer available."
I've upgraded smart you-tube from 1.22 to 1.4, but that hasn't helped the
videos to work. I also have trouble pasting the link from you-tube to the 'write
post' window, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't, so then I
type it in directly with the 'v' included in httpv........so what could
be the problem where some videos work on blog and others do not?
Thank you for your assistance.
@ Tanya
I also seem to having a problem in IE6 and 7 (XP on Parallels on an OSX 10.5 host). I'm just getting a blank space where the video should be (http://spacerdotgif.com). Strangely enough when I look at this site I also see blank spaces in the comments where videos have been embedded. I believe I am using the latest version of the plugin at 1.4. Everything is fine in Firefox and Safari.
Not sure yet whether this is something strange with my set up, but it would seem I am not the only one having it.
Good day, I´ve used this Plugin in my blog http://www.blogwmp.com wordpress in portuguese in version 2.5 but I haver some problems, when I inserted the url of youtube with httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzzc38BcSW4 and then i my post apeards the video but with a word of the title with a link notfound, could you help me please
Regards, António
Roddy, I released new version today that will take care of that issue and allow Smart Youtube to play a video from any youtube site.
Thanks Vladimir,
But I want to add www and es to the coding so I don't have to switch all the time I want to put a http://www.youtube.com or a es.youtube.com.
Is it possible to make it more dynamic with youtube servers in the coding, maybe by adding all possible languages servers there not just www.
Thanks
Tanya, videos on your site work fine for me. Everything seems to be in order.
Hi,
I used your plugin but it takes ages for the video to download on my page in Firefox 2.0. There is nothing to indicate that there is a video there. So my readers might think - what video? In I.E. I get the white outline of the video and then nothing plays.
My code I placed in the post: Mercan Dede (name of post) is:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7aIdw-drtM
Can you help?
Thanks very much if you can.
Just replace es with www in your video link - the videos are always with the same name just across different youtube servers.
Regards,
Vladimir
Can someone help me out fixing the coding so it can work with other youtube languages videos as well. for example: httpv://es.youtube.com
as for now it only applies to http://www.youtube.com videos.
I know the should be changed on this section:
function yte_check($the_content) {
if(strpos($the_content, "httpv://")!==FALSE) {
preg_match_all("/httpv://(www.|)youtube.com/watch(?v=|/v/)([a-zA-Z0-9-_]{11})([^<s]*)/", $the_content, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);
foreach($matches as $match) {
$the_content = preg_replace("/httpv://(www.|)youtube.com/watch(?v=|/v/)([a-zA-Z0-9-_]{11})([^s<]*)/", yte_tag($match[3]), $the_content, 1);
}
}
return $the_content;
}
Thanks
G'day Vladmir,
Thank you for your help. Yep the problem was that I was inserting the YouTube URL address as a link.
When I just copy and paste it into the post it works fine in all browsers.
Cheers,
Steve.
Hi guys,
I use Firefox 2.0 and the video works perfectly. There is no reason for it not to work. I can guess only that it is a conflict with some other plugin you use on the blog (or even some FF plugin) which I both use quite a lot of.
If you have more details on the issue let me know adn 'l see what I can do.
Is there a fix for the video not working in Firefox browsers (only get blank space and 404 error message)? Works fine in I.E.
Is it possible to get the plugin to work in user comments as well?
would it be possible to embed the videos in a custom field of the post? when i do only the code appears :S
Have the same problem as a few others.
In FF 2.x and 3.x (BETA) the movie only links out to the youtube homepage, but in IE 6 and 7 it works like a charm.
Any fix for this??
like a few other users, having issues centering the videos - using 2.1.3 and the align-center button doesn't work..any thoughts?
It's fine work for me.
Thanks.
I'm having problems with Firefox also. With IE it works fine, but in Firefox, when I click the play button, the player disappears and shows "Error 404 - Not Found".
I disabled all Firefox extensions.
This works well with IE but not Mozilla Firefox... just shows whitespace
Any fix for this?
ok I finally got it...
when you go to write a new post
start writing and when you get to the place where you want to add your video, I say video here, you can say anything you want, I select the text and click the create link icon from the text tool bar at the top and a window opens for me to place the code into. when you do that be sure it looks like this
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00000000
be sure to make sure the 0000000 part is YOUR VIDEO REF#
and it works
GREAT
but this took me several tries before my brain unfroze
hope it works out for you...
When the plugin does not work it is usually some kind of mis-typing or using http://uk.youtube.com instead of http://www.youtube.com
The correct format to type it in your post is this:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWfksMD4PAg
if it still does not work you probably have some post alternating plugin that is messing the embed video code. Try disabling plugins one by one until you find which one is it.
Doesn't work for me.
I am using wordpress 2.5 (on my own web server, not wordpress)
and the latest version of your pluging 1.22.
It puts in the following code in my html
<a title="guano" href="
It shows the preview, but when I click on play I get:
The requested URL /jack/<span class= was not found on this server.
I don't see the class "youtube" defined anywhere.
Am I missing a piece of something
I installed Smart Youtube and it works fine on the front page, but when I go to view the post int the category, the embedded video doesn't show up.
any thoughts. thanks
Could you post an example of what the code is supposed to look like please?
Just pick any YouTube video and paste the html. Are we supposed to use the standard YouTube code and just add the "v" ?
Jill
OK... got the video in but its throwing off the template, I'm a newbee with WP not sure what to do webaddress
http://www.beasmiletoday.com
i pasted the code in the code window,
tried centering
and making it smaller
still off pls help
also, i was going to suggest maybe putting in the zip some screen shots of what this all look like in the posting boxes when it's done correctly code and such
hey i updated to wordpress 2.5 and all videos become with the default size, and when I update the width and height on plugin options nothing happend...
please help, is broking all my layout :S
@Jessica: Yep, hit the align center button while on the link
good job man !!
Great plugin, Vladimir! Tell me, is it possible to center the video in my post. Currently it only displays on the left, and I was hoping to have it centered. Any suggestions?
i have problem with firefox, when click to play video on firefox it redirect me to youtube page, but no problem with IE
please help thx
Thanks Jeff for those points.
Yes just center the link in order for video to be centered.
I had the same issue as many above.
The Fix -
Do not copy exact link, make sure it starts with www.
My video started with http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=BqkMV4xg0LA
I changed it to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqkMV4xg0LA and it worked and still forwarded to the proper video?
adding in the "v" of course
It was the www missing in the "link" area on youtube
Hope this helps someone?
what about centering? Do I just center the link?
thanks
Jeff
This code and plugin are awesome!! So user friendly to use! Thanks again.
Surf Blog Spot . com!
Thanks a lot, version 1.21 works again.
Nice plugin. :)
Just update the options on the options screen, no matter if there stay the correct values.
You paste the code to visual editor.
Yeah it is set at that by default. Still no go. Am I supposed to be putting the link in the 'code' or the 'visual' box? I really really apologise but I am a blog rookie so I'm still learning.
Thanks again ,
Glenn Twiddle
Try setting width and height to 425 and 355 in the plugin options screen.
Same deal as the above guys, and only plug in I have running is akismet and ultimate tag warrior. Type in link and no youtube. Is there anything else that has to be turned on or off for it to work?
Thanks for the help in advance.
Glenn Twiddle
I'm having the same issues as described above: After upgrading from v1.1 to the latest version (1.2 by the time of this post) all my videos disappeared from my blog. Since I cannot find any hints on how to fix this error I hope that it's going to be fixed any time soon. Except for one SEO plugin I don't have any other third party plugin running.
very nice plugin.
keep up the good work.
I see videos on your blog, can you confirm the problem?
Hi there!
I have a little problem and hope you can help. I did as instructed per your instructions. For example:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izPyK8506X4
When I went to preview my video, it shows exactly what I typed above exactly as you see it...no video, just the typing. Is there something else I need to do?
Thanks a lot. This is a great plugin and it's filling a much needed gap.
It can be some other plugin but it isn't akismet since I also use it together with some 20-30 other plugins. It is something else.
Can anyone post a link to a post which was working well before but does not work anymore with latest smart youtube?
You should check out all your plugins, deactivate them one by one if necessary. I think my akismet plugin was interfering with the smart you tube... I deactivated it and the youtube videos played just fine.
Hi! I'm having the same problems issued before. I have my blog loaded with youtube videos and I embeded them with the 'v' and now they won't appear! It's really annoying! Can someone please send me a link with the previous version?
problem solved for me:
was a conflict with the plugin ImageScaler Modded 1.0
deactivate this and SY 1.2 work perfectly !
Same for me version 1.2 didn't work.
installed plugins:
Audio player 1.2.3
ImageScaler Modded 1.0
New Tag Cloud 0.3
PhotoXhibit 2.0.10
Smart Youtube 1.2
StatPress 1.2.9
Sticky Post
Waiting for the fix where I can find the previous version?
thanx
Hi guys
The link should be pasted to your post directly (visual editor). This is the proper format of the link
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRjaZsVRtgc
I'm having the same problem. Nothing happens when I paste the youtube link (with the V) into the page. I don't have very many plugins in wordpress... stats, akismet, all in one seo, seo friendly images, and smart youtube. And as far as I know, I don't have any firefox plug ins, as I've never downloaded any.
And, to make sure that I have the basic idea: when you say "paste into the page" do you mean using the "insert/edit image" helper box or pasting the code directly into the non-wysiwyg page? Or both?
Thanks!
Tolwyn, what happens with your embed tags? Is there another way of embedding the clips that you use?
Same problem as Tolwyn and David Hennigham here, it doesn't work and just shows the text (httpv://www.youube....) on the page.
Having the same problem as David Hennigham.
I either get text httpv://www.youtube... (etc) or nothing at all.
embed tags of course work as expected.
Understood. Well at least now I know I haven't made a basic error. I'll see what I can do.
It may be a conflict with some of your existing wordpress plugins, or your browser and/or it's plugins. It's really hard to tell from this standpoint.
yes, that's what i did but it didn't work. Any ideas as to why? It just left a blank space, no window.
Thats the correct way to do it. Just paste it like that in the post.
So I was doing the right thing by adding the 'v' to the URL I got but still it doesn't show up, just white space. This is what I put in the post:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEUOnNLlB8U
Thanks! I just downgraded to the previous version, and it works again, so it's a lot less of an emergency now. I can't figure out what the problem is exactly, but with the newest version installed and activated, the youtube windows just disappear from the blog, even though the links are still in the post code, unchanged. Something's conflicting, not sure what.
Hey, can you discern what is not working? The plugin is used all over my blog and seems to be fine.
Hi! Incredible work. But: I just updated to the latest version, and now video links which worked with the older version are not showing up. I'm using WP 2.3.3. Should I backtrack to the older version? Thanks!!
Could you please write down an exact example of how it's gonna be written?
Usually in a WP blog we use the mode [youtube=http://youtube.com/w/?v=_dIya1aJJKA]
Now, I've tried the form
httpv://youtube.com/w/?v=_dIya1aJJKA
but tothing happens ... :-(
And I've correctly installed on my blog your plug-in.
Where am I making errors?
You should literally add 'v' to the youtube link you get.
Thanks for the new plugin. It's just what we need, but I uploaded your plugin to my plugin folder and activated it and I can't get it to work yet. I'm not sure what I need to do to my RSS feed options, and also I'm not sure what to do with the 'v'. Am I pasting in the 'embed' or the 'URL' from youtube? Do I literally add a 'v' to the link I'm given? Or am I looking for a link with httpv:// already in it?
Released v1.2 today with validation fix and also added video width and height in the options menu.
Thanks for the plugin. I have one request for future releases. Could you put the tag's width and height in double quotes? (v1.1, line 143 of smartyoutube.php). That would help remove a couple XHTML validation errors. I made this modification to my site and it now validates for XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
thx, this is awesome !
Finally a youtube plugin that really works. No more raw code!
I'm looking for a wordpress plugin for my African safari blog that will open a video like the one on http://woodlandparkzblog.blogspot.com/ Any suggestion on where i could find it?
Pressing thumbnail in feed brings you to YouTube site. You can try that with my feed. The links you quote do not have to do anything with nor are produced by my plugin.
I hope it's on the plugin side; after all I can do without watching in Firefox and hope everybody else doesn't have the problem
I found another way to embed YouTube in Wordpres but I would have to give up on visual editor in WordPress and it doesn't seem to work in IE7 so I stick with Smart Youtube; but hey here is another question - what happens if you press the thumbnail in rss feed? do you go to YouTube site? 'cause I get another failure and this time in every browser:
Opera:http://img511.imageshack.us/my.php?image=operaio2.jpg
IE7;http://img511.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ie7mv2.jpg
Firefox is my browser of choice too and the plugin of course works with it. If I am to make a guess what went wrong by looking at your picture I would say that it would be one of (many) firefox plugins you use.
firstly it's really cool plugin; thanks
but here is a problem; it works perfectly in Opera and IE7 but fails in Firefox; I hope you can help me as Firefox is my primary browser
here is the screenshot of the failure: http://img443.imageshack.us/my.php?image=firefoxfailpx5.jpg
here is the site: http://www.fulham.pl
That worked, love it! Thank you!
You are not doing anything wrong, the youtube video window is just that size. However you can change the size and make them smaller. If you edit the plugin you can find code looking like this width="425" height="355", and you can change this to any size you need.
Is there a way for me to change the size the YouTube video appears in my post? I just installed it and it's bleeding over to my right column... http://www.amyschan.com/blog/
I know I'm doing something wrong but not sure what. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
This plugin is great! And much easier than the other plugins available in wordpress. Thank you! Already tagged you in my bookmarks. :)
Great plugin! Works straight out of the box.
it has made my formatting life so much easier!
Cheers for this.
This is not an issue with the plugin as I use it in Firefox and has probably something to do with the way your firefox is setup.
Very helpful plugin and very easy to use. I have a question though. When I play the video on Internet Explorer, the video plays directly on my website. When I switch over to Mozilla Firefox, it opens up youtube website where I took the link from. How do I fix this in Mozilla Firefox to make it play on my website instead.
Thank you.
Thanks Bryan, that is what I wanted to hear ;)
Good looking out on this plugin! I run a movie-themed blog and this really makes the entire process of embedding Youtube clips extraordinarily simple.
Not at present but I will look into this functionality for next version.
can you embed a youtube video OUTSIDE of a post or the RSS feed ..?
i wanna put a youtube clip in my sidebar ..?
Thank you for this plugin. I am using it because I needed a way to show an icon in by feed instead of an embedded player. This allows it to be more apparent that there is a video in my post when something like Facebook aggregates by feed, and does not allow in-line embed, but allows img tags.
I hope you can keep it up to date as wordpress evolves.
-Owl
Just wondering if this will work for videos from other sites like googlevideo, metacafe if i just used the httpv:// when I paste the video link
Thanks for the feedback it means a lot to me!
Thanks for the plugin!! Appreciate it.I will also keep you posted on how it works
This looks like a very useful plugin. I will be using it a lot. I will also keep you posted on how it works
Thanks for the plugin!! Appreciate it.
If you a look at the photo above in the post, you will see preview image of videos directly injected in the rss feed. You can also select to only inject video links.
How does your plugin help it get into the RSS feed? I have a theme that does the Youtube embedding on it's own, by using a custom field, but I'd like to get it into my RSS feeds.