Thumbnails from URLs

  • belovmax

    (@belovmax)


    13 years, 4 months ago

    Hey there,

    Did anybody faced with necessity to add thumbnals from custom URL? Im developing video blog with lot of videos and I want to add youtube thumbs to my blog but cant do that. If you know, all youtube video thumbs are here: http://img.youtube.com/vi/VIDEO_ID/0.jpg but WP not allows to use thumbs by URL.

    Can anyone knows the solution?
    My details: shared hosting, WP 3.5.1, Videozoom theme.

    Please, advice…

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  • Odai Athamneh

    (@heyodai)

    13 years, 4 months ago

    You could try manually inserting the code:

    <img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/VIDEO_ID/0.jpg" />

    That would be for the link you gave, for a different image change the URL.

    What you’re doing is called hotlinking, and it isn’t recommended. If YouTube changes their link structure, all of your thumbnails will be gone.

    What you can do to prevent that is download the thumbnails and upload them to your site, but why not just embed the YouTube videos directly?

    Thread Starter belovmax

    (@belovmax)

    13 years, 4 months ago

    Truth is I tried these methods, but I have spesific theme which needs thumbnail to be uploaded to site, cause theme resizing thumbnails to add them to timeline on index page and category pages.

    So, to have thumbnail on post page – using embedded youtube videos will be enough, but to have it on index page, I should upload them…

    Anyway, I tried good plugin called Magic Post Thumbnail, which uploading first image from google images to the site, its searching it by post title. BUT, plugin requires allow_url_fopen to be turned ON in php.ini, unfortunatelly its not possible on shared hosting…

    I`ll try to find solution, thanks for reccomendations )

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