Video ThumbnailsWordPress Plugin

Video Thumbnails makes it easy to automatically display video thumbnails in your template. When you publish a post, this plugin will find the first video embedded and retrieve a thumbnail for you. Thumbnails can be saved to your media library and set as a featured image automatically. There’s even support for custom post types and custom fields!

Version 3.0 is on the way soon!

Video Thumbnails Pro

Video Thumbnails Pro adds new options like maximum image sizes, widescreen cropping, more powerful bulk scanning, a customizable upload directory, and more!

Supported Sites

• YouTube
• Vimeo
• Facebook
• Vine
• Twitch
• Dailymotion
• Metacafe
• TED
• VK
• Blip
• Google Drive
• Funny or Die
• CollegeHumor
• MPORA
• Livestream
• Yahoo Screen
• Wistia
• Youku
• Tudou
• SAPO
• Rutube

Video Thumbnails even works with most video plugins, including:

• Refactored Video Importer
• Viper’s Video Quicktags

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Our Other Plugins

Video Thumbnails Pro | Video Importer | Retinamatic

Known Issues

• In some cases you may have to manually search for thumbnails on the post editor

Roadmap

Version 3.0 is being finished up for release soon.

1. Upload the /video-thumbnails/ directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

Some functions are available to advanced users who want to customize their theme:

• <?php video_thumbnail(); ?> will echo a thumbnail URL or the default image located at wp-content/plugins/video-thumbnails/default.jpg if a thumbnail cannot be found. Here is an example: <img src="<?php video_thumbnail(); ?>" width="300" />
• <?php $video_thumbnail = get_video_thumbnail(); ?> will return the thumbnail URL or return NULL if none is found. In this example, a thumbnail is only shown if one is found: <?php if( ( $video_thumbnail = get_video_thumbnail() ) != null ) { echo "<img src='" . $video_thumbnail . "' />"; } ?>