sconfig

Thanks for replying so fast.

I revised the score. It’s not your fault! You shouldn’t get dinged for the open graph standard.

Everytime I install a plugin I always check the HTML source to verify the plugin is going its job. If I find any alien HTML files or links the offending plugin is ejected as quickly as possible.

Part of this makes me wonder why can’t I serve the protocol files right off of my site instead of referring to a third party parser. But i’m sure that’s far beyond the scope of the plugin.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by sconfig.

I’ll try to do a re-install of WordPress to see if any plugins or themes are messing with the code in my child theme.

In response to your PS: I can do what I want.

I did however check the metrics on the viewers to my primary site. Less then three percent of those users used an IE or Safari based browser combined based off of the Apache log files. It’s definitely a drop in the bucket to me.

I still provide MP4 on my primary site via hard-link. I just stripped it out of the video players for any blogs containing them until I can figure out why my code is not being accepted. It’s not that big of a deal while it’s getting fixed.

Hello!

You got it!

https://www.s-config.com/razer-chroma-2014-keyboard-repair/

This one if you open network inspector in chrome it will show the posters
Razer-Key-Test-Fail.jpg and Razer-Key-Test-Pass.jpg for the two short videos on the site.
Here’s what the source looks like for the first video.

[video width="1920" height="1080" preload="none" webm="//www.s-config.com/core/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Razer-Key-Test-Fail.webm" mp4="//www.s-config.com/core/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Razer-Key-Test-Fail.mp4" ogv="//www.s-config.com/core/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Razer-Key-Test-Fail.ogv" poster="//www.s-config.com/core/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Razer-Key-Test-Fail.jpg"][/video]

I’m trying to get the poster=”” to dynamically switch between jpg and webp.

thanks again!

– S

Thank you everyone!

Once I figured out what they mean by “filter magic”. Is the section where they are expecting me to manipulate the array. I was good to go!

    $array = apply_filters( 'wp_video_extensions', $array );
 
    function filter_wp_video_extensions( $array ) { 
        $array = str_replace ( 'webm' , 'blank' , $array );
        $array = str_replace ( 'mp4' , 'webm' , $array );
        $array = str_replace ( 'blank' , 'mp4' , $array );
        return $array; 
    }; 
            
     add_filter( 'wp_video_extensions', 'filter_wp_video_extensions', 10, 1);

Not a professional coder so if there was a better way for me to swap strings within the array let me know. This is my first time making a child theme for WordPress. I inspected the code in FireFox and Google Chrome and it’s loading the source videos in the order I want now.

Which means I no longer have to hack WordPress core files. Thank you everyone!

• This reply was modified 9 years, 6 months ago by sconfig. Reason: Spelling errors

Hello Joost,

Thank you once again for the response. But I am unfortunately going to have to disagree with the harmless nature of branding on an XML sitemap. As everything and anything that is published onto the internet can and will be used against you for analysis by google and their learning systems.

If you have hundreds and thousands of sites saying the same unique name over and over. Even if it isn’t hard-linked. Even if it’s just raw text. Then there is the potential for google learning system to assume that brand must be important rather then focusing on the content that the site provides.

Again, if the plugin is free I have no problem with this. Because the plugin simply wants to be known to the world for more businesses and users to find out about it. But when paying for premium I expect total silence from the plugin like many others I have paid for in the past. The developers have received their money from me and thus there is no reason for promotion unless it’s being blogged about specifically in a posting.

So, if one of the feature sets of premium is to not only remove the ads but also any and all branding then you got my $69. If not, I guess that’s okay too! I totally understand I’m possibly the one in five million that cares about this. I shall continue to delete lines 93 to 97 from /wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/css/xml-sitemap-xsl.php for starters.

I am also well aware that WordPress promotes and brands itself as the CMS of my site. But WordPress does offer ways of making the site not-so-blatent about it being a wordpress by hiding the meta widget as just one example. But it’s still present in its meta classifications on all pages. If WordPress offered a premium version to mask the CMS identification from the net I would totally be in line for that as well.

I simply like stealth just that much. Anyhow, thank you again for your time and your response. It is greatly appreciated.

Thanks you for the response. It’s a shame about the branding. I would’ve paid for premium on that feature alone.