Plugin / Video Thumbnails

Changelog

2.12.3

• Fixed HTML bug

2.12.2

• Added support for new Facebook embed code
• Documentation prep for release of version 3.0

2.12.1

• Support for TED when using foreign languages

2.12

• Added support for Yahoo Screen

2.11

• Added support for Livestream
• Support for latest TED embed code

2.10.3

• Various updates to providers
• Removed “sslverify” => false in wp_remote_get() (may cause errors on WordPress versions before 3.7)
• Better error messages for Google Drive

2.10.2

• Added actions hooks before and after generating attachment metadata

2.10.1

• Removed Justin.tv due to their shutdown

2.10

• Improved debugging page

2.9.1

• Improved provider class extensibility

2.9

• Added Tudou support
• Added SAPO support
• Updated Justin.tv to support the live player now that archives are being removed

2.8

• Added support for TED Talks
• Improved error handling for AJAX on settings page

2.7.9

• Better compatibility with image plugins
• Better Rutube support
• Fixed bug that prevented API retrieval error messages

2.7.8

• Improved Facebook detection
• Higher resolution Facebook thumbnails (when available)

2.7.7

• Improved error handling
• Fixed bugs
• Updated German translation

2.7.6

• Added Dailymotion support for protocol-relative embeds

2.7.5

• Better support for WP Robot
• Fixed bug related to Automatic YouTube Video Posts
• Reorganized video thumbnail extensions

2.7.4

• Improved VK detection
• Added German translation (thanks applewerbung)
• Improved provider and markup tests by applying “the_content” filter
• Improved permissions checks for debugging

2.7.3

• Improved image download test
• Updated Vimeo and VK tests

2.7.2

• Added support for Youku iFrame embed code
• Fixed Vimeo channel URL test

2.7.1

• Fixed load_plugin_textdomain() path

2.7

• Video Thumbnails is now translation ready and looking for volunteers

2.6.3

• Better Google Drive detection (added support for underscores or dashes in the ID)

2.6.2

• Added feature to settings page that automatically detects the custom field
• Switched to JSON for Vimeo’s oEmbed endpoint
• Added support for the “image/gif” MIME type

2.6.1

• Fixed VK bug caused by IDs with a negative int

2.6

• Added support for VK iFrame embeds
• Minor bugfixes and improvements

2.5.3

• Fixed bug with Automatic YouTube Video Posts when automatic publishing is disabled or when rescanning existing posts
• Fixed bug with bulk scanner when 0 posts are queued
• Improved markup test by checking if server can reach the resulting thumbnail URL

2.5.2

• Better support for Automatic YouTube Video Posts
• Added support tab to settings page

2.5.1

• Fixed improper error handling

2.5

• Added support for Video Thumbnails Pro, our new solution for power users and professional bloggers
• Various bugfixes and improvements

2.4.2

• Fixed bug with image download test

2.4.1

• Added support for YouTube videos using LazyYT.js
• Better Google Drive support
• Filenames now have non-latin characters removed and use the post ID as a fallback
• Fixed bug caused by internal server error during bulk scans
• Improved performance of provider tests

2.4

• Added support for Vine
• Added support for Google Drive videos
• Rewritten bulk video thumbnail scanner
• Added troubleshooting link in meta box when no video thumbnail is found
• Changed provider test to compare file hashes in case thumbnail URLs change

2.3

• Added support for archived Twitch videos
• Fixed issue with Funny or Die thumbnails

2.2

• Added support for Rutube

2.1

• Changes under the hood to ensure the first video is found
• Improved YouTube regex

2.0.10

• Reduced overhead on settings pages

2.0.9

• Fixed Vimeo protocol-relative embeds
• Fixed bug with PNG image types

2.0.8

• Better fix for AYVP featured image bug

2.0.7

• Fix for bug that prevented featured images from being set for posts imported by AYVP

2.0.6

• Fix for “Fatal error: Cannot use object of type WP_Error as array” bug

2.0.5

• Added support for Blip URLs

2.0.4

• Fixed bug with file names when the post title uses non-latin characters

2.0.3

• Fixed problem caused by YouTube removing http: or https: from their default embed code

2.0.2

• Added descriptive messages for errors during provider tests
• Fix possible fatal error on activation when VimeoAPIException is already declared
• Fix possible undefined index warnings for provider settings

2.0.1

• Added support for Facebook’s iFrame player

2.0

• Completely rewritten for better performance, more organized code, and easier maintenance
• Added support for Funny or Die
• Added support for MPORA
• Added support for Wistia
• Added support for Facebook videos
• Added support for CollegeHumor
• Added support for Youku
• Added support for HD YouTube thumbnails
• Added support for higher resolution Vimeo thumbnails
• Added support for private Vimeo videos (API credentials required)
• Added support for Vimeo channel URLs
• Added support for Automatic Youtube Video Posts Plugin
• Added filters to make plugin extensible
• Removed cURL requirement (still requires ability to make external requests)
• Better checks for blank thumbnails before added to media library
• Adds ‘video_thumbnail’ field to video thumbnails saved in the media library
• Option to clear all video thumbnails (clears custom field from posts and deletes video thumbnails added after 2.0 from library)
• Better file names
• Added provider tests on debugging page to help troubleshoot
• Added a markup detection on debugging page
• Added “Installation Information” section to debugging page with helpful troubleshooting info
• Settings improvements
• Bug fixes

1.8.2

• Fixes issue where some servers were unable to download thumbnails from YouTube
• Fixes possible issue setting new thumbnail as featured image

1.8.1

• Plugin now scans posts added using XML-RPC which makes posting videos from iOS or other apps work smoothly

1.8

• Added support for custom fields via a new setting
• Added support for YouTube’s privacy-enhanced domain (youtube-nocookie.com)
• Fixed image duplication bug
• Now more consistent with WordPress Coding Standards (thanks Daedalon)

1.7.7

• Better cURL error handling
• Better regex matching
• Bug fixes
• Thanks to Daedalon for many of these changes

1.7.6

• Fixed plugin link
• Added donate button

1.7.5

• Bugfix for array error on line 408

1.7.4

• Fixed Dailymotion bug (thanks Gee)
• Added detection for Dailymotion URLs (thanks Gee)
• Added support for WP YouTube Lyte

1.7.3

• More comprehensive search for embedded YouTube videos

1.7.2

• Added support for Dailymotion and Metacafe

1.7

• Added new option to scan past posts for video thumbnails

1.6

• Added support for custom post types

1.5

• Video thumbnails are now only saved when a post’s status changes to published.
• Removed URL field from the Video Thumbnail meta box on the Edit Post Page
• Added a “Reset Video Thumbnail” button to the meta box
• Accidental duplicate images should no longer be problem

1.1.1

• Fixed a bug related to scheduled posts sometimes not saving thumbnail URL to the meta field

1.1

• Fixed bug created by a change in YouTube’s embed codes

1.0.9

• More work on fixing the duplicate image bug

1.0.8

• (Attempted to) fix another bug that could create duplicate images when updating a post

1.0.7

• Fixed a bug that could create duplicate images on auto-save

1.0.6

• Improved Blip.tv support

1.0.5

• Now using cURL to help save thumbnails locally instead of file_get_contents()

1.0.4

• Added compatibility with YouTube’s new iframe embedding
• Now supports most embedding plugins

1.0.3

• Fixed an issue where existing thumbnails (such as ones manually set by the user) would be replaced by Video Thumbnails
• Added a checks to see if cURL is running

1.0.1

• Removed “Scan for Video Thumbnails” button from settings page until improvements can be made

1.0

• Video Thumbnails can now be stored in the local WordPress media library
• Video Thumbnails stored locally can automatically be set as the featured image, making it support many themes automatically
• Added an options page to enable/disable local storage and enable/disable automatically setting that thumbnail as the featured image
• Settings page also includes a button to scan all posts for video thumbnails

0.6

• Added support for Justin.tv
• Fixed bug that could cause a conflict with other plugins

0.5.5

• Video thumbnails are now found at the time the post is saved

0.5.4

• Video thumbnails can be retrieved for a specific post ID by passing a parameter to the video_thumbnail() or get_video_thumbnail() function. For example: <?php $id = 25; $thumbnail = get_video_thumbnail($id); if($thumbnail!=null) echo $thumbnail; ?>

0.5.3

• Better support for Vimeo Shortcode (thanks to Darren for the tip)

0.5.2

• Added support for Simple Video Embedder

0.5.1

• Added a test to make sure the YouTube thumbnail actually exists. This prevents you from getting that ugly default thumbnail from YouTube.

0.5

• Thumbnail URLs are now stored in a custom field with each post, meaning the plugin only has to interact with outside APIs once per post.
• Added a “Video Thumbnail” meta box to the edit screen for each post, which can be manually set or will be set automatically once video_thumbnail() or get_video_thumbnail() is called in a loop for that post.

0.3

• Added basic support for Blip.tv auto embedded using URLs in this format: http://blip.tv/file/12345

0.2.3

• Added support for any Vimeo URL

0.2.2

• Added support for Vimeo Shortcode

0.2.1

• Added support for Vimeo players embedded using an iframe

0.2

• Added get_video_thumbnail() to return the URL without echoing or return null if no thumbnail is found, making it possible to only display a thumbnail if one is found.

0.1.3

• Fixed an issue where no URL was returned when Vimeo’s rate limit had been exceeded. The default image URL is now returned, but a future version of the plugin will store thumbnails locally for a better fix.

0.1.2

• Fixed a possible issue with how the default image URL is created

0.1.1

• Fixed an issue with the plugin directory’s name that caused the default URL to be broken
• Added support for YouTube URLs

0.1

• Initial release