Title: Thumbnail Generator Function Name
Last modified: May 27, 2019

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# Thumbnail Generator Function Name

 *  [shubh1976](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shubh1976/)
 * (@shubh1976)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnail-generator-function-name/)
 * Hello,
 * I would like to know the name of function which is responsible for generation
   of thumbnail. Say my uploaded video path is [http://example.com/wp-content/2019/05/sample.mp4](http://example.com/wp-content/2019/05/sample.mp4).
   I can supply to the function the video path and and post id, and function will
   generate thumbnail and attach thumbnail to the respective post.
 * Please note am not using any wordpress backend to upload video. I have created
   a function to upload video from frontend and skip all other kind of post (like
   texts, embedded content).
 * I will be very thankful if you can provide me the function name responsible for
   generating thumbnail of video.
 * Thanks,

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 *  Plugin Author [Kyle Gilman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kylegilman/)
 * (@kylegilman)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnail-generator-function-name/#post-11579922)
 * The function on its own isn’t going to help since the whole process involves 
   several interrelated functions. If you’re creating an attachment in the Media
   Library you don’t need to access the function directly. As long as you have FFMPEG
   installed on your server you can set the plugin to automatically create a thumbnail
   whenever a new video is added to the database. If you don’t have FFMPEG it’s 
   not possible to generate thumbnails automatically.
 *  Plugin Author [Kyle Gilman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kylegilman/)
 * (@kylegilman)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnail-generator-function-name/#post-11579938)
 * We had a [similar conversation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/generating-thumbnail-from-programatically-uploaded-video/)
   a few months ago. Am I misunderstanding what you’re asking for now?

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 * Last reply from: [Kyle Gilman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kylegilman/)
 * Last activity: [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnail-generator-function-name/#post-11579938)
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