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  • October 21, 2014 at 10:14 am #338930
    juliaevemann

    I’m creating a video post type using the wordpress shortcode for TED talks and the TED plugin. However, I want to know how to get the video thumbnail to show up as the featured image, instead of the default post image. I’ve also tried pasting a straight url instead of using the shortcode for TED but still no thumbnail.

    October 22, 2014 at 4:27 am #339345
    Josue

    Hi!

    I’m not sure if that’s possible to be honest, does the plugin you mention offers that feature built-in?

    Best regards,
    Josue

    October 22, 2014 at 10:47 am #339431
    juliaevemann

    No It’s not. I was just wondering if the video post type was supposed to do this. Can I create a link directly from a featured image? The other thing I tried was manually making a video thumbnail and setting it as a featured image but when I pasted the video url it automatically created another thumbnail in the post body so I ended up with 2 images! Could you suggest a solution to this?

    Many thanks!

    October 22, 2014 at 4:12 pm #339520
    Josue

    Hey!

    Can you post a link to one of these posts with double featured images?

    Cheers!
    Josue

    October 22, 2014 at 4:15 pm #339526
    Alex Morrison

    Hey Julia,

    We’ve successfully used a plugin to detect and pull thumbnails automatically from embedded videos – https://wordpress.org/plugins/video-thumbnails/

    Hope that helps.

    October 22, 2014 at 10:15 pm #339776
    juliaevemann

    Hi Josue
    I already tried this plugin but it didn’t ‘detect’ any thumbnails, which is odd since it displays the thumbnail in the body when I paste the link. They even say it supports TED videos but still no luck. Not sure if I was doing anything wrong. There is an optional custom field setting but I wasn’t sure if I needed to fill it in. “Enter the name of the custom field where your embed code or video URL is stored.” ??

    Here is a post where I manually created a featured image ‘thumbnail’ and pasted the link in the post body.

    Thanks

    October 22, 2014 at 11:10 pm #339795
    Josue

    Hey Julia!

    Try ticking this checkbox in the edit Post page – http://screencast.com/t/aVy6x09seVa

    Best regards,
    Josue

    October 23, 2014 at 12:03 am #339824
    juliaevemann

    Ah! Cool. Thanks so much. Just a shame I can’t get it done automatically with that plugin!

    October 23, 2014 at 12:15 am #339831
    Josue

    Hey Julia!

    If you want to hide it automatically you can do it through CSS, try adding this code to Quick CSS:

    .single-format-video .big-preview{
display: none !important;
}

    Regards,
    Josue

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