Title: Manually Set Thumbnail
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Manually Set Thumbnail

 *  [thelanj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thelanj/)
 * (@thelanj)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manually-set-thumbnail/)
 * Is there anyway to manually set a thumbnail? For videos that don’t support the
   auto scrape, there’s still a bunch of useful reasons I’d like to be able to manually
   set the thumbnail separately from the featured image .
 * thanks!
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/video-thumbnails/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/video-thumbnails/)

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 *  [dMpmJ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dmpmj/)
 * (@dmpmj)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manually-set-thumbnail/#post-4315611)
 * There are two different filters you can hook into.
 * If you already know the URL for the thumbnail you’d like to set, then hook into`
   new_video_thumbnail_url`.
 * It can automatically scan some markup for a thumbnail. You can set that markup
   with `video_thumbnail_markup`.
 * It will take either your supplied URL or the thumbnail it finds while scanning
   the markup, and it will save that image locally.
 * For more info, see the `get_video_thumbnail()` method in `video-thumbnails.php`.

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 * Last reply from: [dMpmJ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dmpmj/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manually-set-thumbnail/#post-4315611)
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