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  • February 19, 2014 at 7:15 pm #226384
    charger70

    is there a way to get a video preview using the Blog Posts builder element in Layout Builder? mine only shows a generic white box with a video symbol in it – not the most desirable presentation. I have ‘set the preview image automatically’ selected – but that’s not working. any ideas?

    see what i mean here: http://www.langersdeli.com

    thank you!

    February 20, 2014 at 4:14 am #226553
    Ismael

    Hey charger70!

    Add this on Quick CSS or custom.css:

    .fallback-post-type-icon {
position: absolute;
z-index: 9999;
}

.slider-fallback-image {
visibility: visible;
}

    Cheers!
    Ismael

    February 20, 2014 at 8:44 am #226635
    charger70

    ismael – i added that code to quick CSS but no change. any ideas? thanks for your help!

    February 24, 2014 at 9:31 am #228379
    Dude

    Hey!

    You can select the “Video” post format for a post if you want to feature a video. Just make sure that you add the video link to the post content and that the “video” post format is selected: http://www.clipular.com/c/6677544845705216.png?k=kgxSp2lG1POjhTfjvUVXgjeGWDU

    Note that the “grid layout” doesn’t support video previews and you must select the “Multi Author Blog (displays Gravatar of the article author beside the entry and feature images above)” or “Single Author, small preview Pic (no author picture is displayed, feature image is small)” or “Single Author, big preview Pic (no author picture is displayed, feature image is big)” layout.

    Best regards,
    Peter

    February 24, 2014 at 6:05 pm #228600
    charger70

    ok – i changed formats on the home page in layout builder – still nothing.

    http://www.langersdeli.com

    the post itself is video format post type; and i used this code to embed the video:

    [av_video src='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGeBpKW3DnA' format='16-9' width='16' height='9']

    so why am i still lacking a preview?

    and shouldn’t the grid format support small previews? why do all the other display formats for blog posts support a preview except grid?

    thanks for taking the time to help me, peter – i appreciate it.

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    February 26, 2014 at 10:17 am #229492
    Dude

    Hey!

    1) Please create me an admin account and post the login credentials as private reply. I”ll look into it.

    2) The grid format just supports preview images at the moment. Maybe we’ll add video support in the future but afaik we didn’t get feature request yet and thus it’s not on our “priority” list. The grid format is not intended to be used for video blogs because the space/column width is not enough to display (and view) the video properly. The standard blog layout allows us to display the videos with a width of at least 500-600px.

    Best regards,
    Peter

    February 26, 2014 at 6:15 pm #229680
    charger70

    peter – thanks for the detailed reply.

    i have mitigated the situation by creating screen grabs and setting them as “featured image” – that takes care of the “blank icon” issue for me.

    i understand why grid format wouldn’t be a priority – it would be a small video! the key for me in the future will be to create a frame grab from the video and use as featured image to avoid the blank icon issue.

    thank you again for your attention to this.

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