Vodpod Video Gallery Plugin for WordPress
I spent quite a while looking for a way to display a video gallery that allowed multiple video sources (not just YouTube) and that didn’t require me to host the videos myself. I tried one that I thought would do the trick - the Vodpod Videos Widget. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get it to work well on my blog (their sidebar video widget works great though). The code was not flexible enough to allow me to position the gallery elements the way I wanted and it didn’t seem to work at all in Internet Explorer.
So, I wrote my own video gallery plugin, based on Vodpod. Vodpod is a great tool for collecting videos. You can download a browser toolbar so that all you have to do is click a button when you are viewing a video and it will insert it into your Vodpod account, which will then allow it to appear in your WordPress gallery. So get yourself a Vodpod account and then give this plugin a try.
Multiple video galleries within one WordPress site, as displayed on this site with the Second Gallery Example page, is now supported. You may also specify a tag name in order to limit your gallery to a subset of your vodpod videos.
Download from wordpress.org This plugin is now hosted on wordpress.org!
To install:
- Copy the vodpod-video-gallery folder to your wordpress plugins directory.
- Activate the Vodpod Video Gallery plugin from your admin plugins page.
- Go to the ‘Vodpod Video Gallery’ page in the ‘Options’ or ‘Settings’ menu (depending on your WP version) and configure your VodPod account name.
- Put the text [ Insert Video Gallery ] into any page (without the spaces between the [ ]).
Alternatively, for multiple pods on one wordpress site, you can specify the pod name:
[ Insert Video Gallery podname ] (without the spaces between the []).
You can also specify pod name, number of thumbnails per page, and height of the iframe that holds the thumbnails (in that order):
[ Insert Video Gallery podname 16 280 ] (without the spaces between the [])
You may also specify a particular tag:
[ Insert Video Gallery podname:tagname ] or [ Insert Video Gallery podname:tagname 16 280 ]
(If your tagname has spaces in it, please replace those spaces with ‘%20′)
Disclaimers: This plugin looks best on themes that have a content area that is wider than the video player (425px) which is most of them. It has been tested in Firefox, Safari, IE 7, and IE 6, and IE 5. If you find bugs, please let me know and I will try to fix those as soon as possible.
Like this plugin? Please consider donating by clicking the ‘Donate’ button in the sidebar. Enjoy!
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July 1st, 2008 at 6:00 pm
hi,
Thank you xondie for this great pluging, I started using Vodpod.com a month ago, I like the way it works with my new self hosted wordpress http://soccernewstv.com, every thing works fine, I just wanna know if there is an option to add different pods to different pages, I am planing to collect more videos with vodpod but the only problem is how can I use these pods on one website.
In other words I need to use multiple pods in on blog or website, is that possible with vodpod-video-gallery-v0.4 pluging or not?
Thank you.
July 1st, 2008 at 8:15 pm
You’re very welcome, Abdul! That is a great idea. I’m sure that a lot of people would like that capability.
I’m swamped today and tomorrow, but check back here Thursday night and I’ll see if I can incorporate multiple pods into the plugin.
July 1st, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Thank you xondie,
There is an other issue witch is templates, I looked for one that I can use with vodpod but I couldn’t find a template that is designed or at least optimized to Vodpod use.
Thank you in advance.
July 4th, 2008 at 1:46 am
OK, multiple galleries within one WordPress site is now supported! You can optionally configure individual galleries on different pages with vodpod usernames, videos per page, and height of the thumbnail gallery iframe that is different from the configured defaults. You do not need to set any or all of these values for a gallery.
I also added a link back to a user’s pod at the bottom (at the very reasonable request of the vodpod folks).
I discovered a bug that I guess no one had noticed - the previous page arrow link didn’t always work right. That has been fixed.
I also did a little bit more code cleanup.
Abdul, the video galleries should look pretty good in any template that has a content area width of 425px or greater. You could make it look good in a template that is more narrow than that, but you’d have to do a little code changing to the width of the video player and to the widths set in the CSS. Is the problem that your templates are too narrow? Or is there some other reason why it doesn’t look good. On your site that you link to from your comment, your video gallery looks great.
July 4th, 2008 at 2:54 am
We just fixed an IE 5 bug - it now centers and lines up nicely like in all the other browsers. So we’re up to v0.6 now.
July 5th, 2008 at 12:46 am
Thank you xondie, I will work on it tomorrow in my website and I will let you know about any problems, Thank you.
July 8th, 2008 at 7:27 am
Hi there xondie,
Your plugin seems great.
However I seem to have a problem with your plugin. I´ve uploaded the plugin and installed it. Set it up to my vodpod account, and everything seems fine. Then ive created a new page, called videogallery. However when i past the “[Insert Video Gallery]” into my page nothing happens. What am i doing wrong?
Thanks in advance
July 8th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Hi Riisens,
One common cause I have seen of similar problems with various plugins is that sometimes when we copy and paste something, some hidden html tags get copied with it. To make sure this is not the case for you, switch to the “html” view within your page editor and make sure there is no hidden code around or within the [Insert Video Gallery].
If that doesn’t fix it, perhaps point me to the url where you are trying to add the video gallery and I can see if anything jumps out at me.
July 8th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Hi Xondie,
Thanks for your reply.
After i messed around with it for a while i found out what the problem was. Being rather new to Wordpress i thought i could edit the page in my “Themes editor” (that is messing with the PHP coding), AND pasting your code in the “Manage” “Page” side of wordpress. I thought that it was the same page i was working on. Then i found out that was not the case (i think). Anyway my problem was, that i had been working on the PHP side, and somehow confused Wordpress to overwrite the input form the “manage”, “Page” side (even though my PHP code could validate). Nothing i typed in, would be presented.
My solution (which works) was to delete the page, and then start a fresh, and now it works fine!
Anyway thanks for your help, your great plugin and your quick reply!
August 15th, 2008 at 1:33 am
Thanks for creating a great program. Do you plan to post more links to sites that use your program? Also, will your plug work in other environments like drupal, joomla, etc…?
August 15th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Hi Isaac, I hadn’t thought to post links to sites using the video gallery. I would love for those using the plugin to post a comment letting everyone know. I can see from my visitor tracking some sites that are using it but I’m not sure that the owners of all of them have officially “launched” their sites since a few of them look to be in progress. It’s a great idea though - I think I will work on putting a list up after I get permission from site owners to post their links.
It does not currently work with any other CMS. I may actually port this plugin over to Drupal, but I need to work with Drupal just a little more before I feel confident enough to do so. I have no plans to create a Joomla version at this point.
September 4th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Hey. Great plugin! Is it possible to include it in one of my wordpress pages using php? I’ve been looking at the code and trying to figure out how to include it but having no luck.
September 4th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Hm. I didn’t really write it for that, but maybe it could work. Did you try installing and configuring it and then adding this php line to your page?
videogallery_get_html($params);
That’s the line that writes out all of the html/javascript code. If no $params are passed in (you may have to at least pass in an empty array) it should get the data from the configuration. If you want multiple video galleries, then you would have to set the $params values.
$params[0] = ‘vodpod_podname’; //whatever your vodpod username is
$params[1] = 8; // number of video thumbnails per page
$params[2] = 200 // height of thumbnails iframe
If you get it to work, I’d love to know about it.
September 4th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
It works perfectly now in my category page labeled videos. check it out! wow thanks a lot!
September 5th, 2008 at 12:33 am
I seem to have a problem with the plugin effecting my sidebar and page size. To troubleshoot deactivated the plugin and it fixed the problem so I know its unrelated to my new code. Any suggestions?
September 6th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Hi Nick,
It’s tough to say, since (I think) you implemented the video gallery directly with PHP on your template file, rather than the standard way of putting
[Insert Video Gallery]
on a page using the standard content management. If you use the plugin the standard way, I would guess that your sidebar would return.
I’m assuming that you have implemented the video gallery in the way we discussed in the comments above.
September 7th, 2008 at 12:18 am
The problem was a “&” in one of the queries for the plugin. Easy fix. I really like the plugin because it makes it very easy and quick to add new videos to my site.
When I have some time I’m going to try and change the layout of the thumbnails to better fit my site. I’ll keep you posted on my progress. Thanks again and I WILL be donating.
September 8th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
So glad it is working out for you Nick. Thanks so much for your support!
September 21st, 2008 at 11:33 pm
I’ve just released version 0.7. By request, it now has pagination instead of just previous and next buttons. See the example galleries on this site for a live demo.
October 10th, 2008 at 7:39 am
Hi,
Please develop the Joomla 1.5 virsion from this.i want video gallary very much.and this is the gallary i want.please be kind enough to make a joomla virsion.
duminda
October 10th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Hi Duminda,
Thanks for your comments and your enthusiasm! I don’t have any experience with Joomla and so won’t be developing this plugin for Joomla any time in the foreseeable future.
I have become quite experienced with Drupal though, and will likely develop a Drupal version as soon as time allows. Maybe within the next few months.
November 4th, 2008 at 3:25 am
I am getting an error. Is this an api issue? Thanks! I believe this plugin may be the answer I need.
Warning: fopen() [function.fopen]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /plugins/vodpod-video-gallery/vodpod_gallery.php on line 168
Warning: fopen(http://…@oldschoolscholar.com&per_page=1&api_key=js_widget) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /plugins/vodpod-video-gallery/vodpod_gallery.php on line 168
Error reading RSS data.
November 4th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Hi Qball.
I haven’t seen that error come up before. I searched around on google about it - one person suggests enabling allow_url_open in php.ini. Perhaps you could try that?
November 5th, 2008 at 1:03 am
What is the best way to write this line? I have the php.ini in my wp-includes folder. Should I place it elsewhere?
November 6th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Sorry for the delay, Qball. I got distracted by all the election coverage.
I have put it under wp-content with success in the past.
Then, I think the line you would need in there would be
allow_url_open = true;
(try it without the ; if it’s the last/only line in your php.ini file.
November 6th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
actually, it might be
allow_url_open = On;
November 8th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
hi. Thanks for plugin
perfect.
Regards
November 26th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
I downloaded and installed the plugin into the plugin directory. I activated it through Wordpress and nothing shows up anywhere. I went to the widget page like your site instructed. Not there. I’ve tried everything I can think of. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled. I am working with Wordpress 2.6.3. I really want to use your stuff. I’ve tried about 5 others and yours seems to be just what I need. Thank you.
November 26th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Hi drshuetz,
In order to make the gallery show up on a page, you need to do more than just install and activate it. You have to then configure it and put the text into the page you want to have it show up on. It sounds to me like the steps you are missing are #3 and #4. Here are the instructions:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/vodpod-video-gallery/installation/
I am not sure what you mean by going to the “widget page” - I only mention the Vodpod Videos Widget as an alternative to my gallery, not as any part of the installation process.
November 27th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Isaac and anyone else interested -
I finally was able to port this plugin over to Drupal as was requested last August.
http://www.xondie.com/resources/drupal-module/
Let me know what you think!
December 15th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Hi xondie
drshuetz probably want to say that he can’t find the way to configure it in his wp-admin dashboard. I can’t either. I have wordpress 2.6.2 and don’t have options at all, so I can’t find where I could configure the plugin
December 15th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Did you look under ‘Settings’? It should be under there.
Thanks for pointing out that I need to update the instructions for newer versions.
December 15th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
yes, thanks
actually, I have added sidebar plugin at first, so I couldn’t find it
It is in settings now
December 27th, 2008 at 3:53 am
Hello, I have used VodPod for sometime, aprox. 1.5 years. I have recently rebuilt the site and instead of using the buggy VodPod gallery plugin which doesnt seem to work with the newest Wordpress 2.7 anyway, I decided to try your gallery plugin. Every is great except for two issues. One is I can only select 8 thumbs to display. If I select more then the thumbs appear there but the window doesnt go low enough to see the pagination selections and arrows. #2 is I have recently used the new Flex Theme from iThemes.com and added your gallery to a black page which I name video test. There is nothing else on the page. it shows up GREAT!, the only thing is for some reason it shows in the page area fine and then ALSO it shows up AGAIN a second time in the TOP of the page above the site header… this is driving me crazy! hahah partly because I think its a simple fix, somewhere… The site is not up for public view yet, but if you contact me I can set up an account so you can see what i mean about showing up twice. I can live with the 8 thumbnails problem but I gotta fix the double showing of the gallery! EVEN THOUGH I love this plugin ALOT, I CANT have it showing up twice as im sure you could agree!
Anyway thanks for a great plugin! Just need a small fix and im up and running!!
Scott
December 27th, 2008 at 4:47 am
Hi Scott - The first (and less important) problem is an easy fix. If you change the number of thumbnails, you also need to set the height of the iframe. In your configuration, there should be 3 settings for you to set. The 3rd one is the iframe height.
The second problem does sound like a big problem. It’s late now, but I’ll take a look at it tomorrow.
December 29th, 2008 at 12:50 am
I fixed the first problem yes! hahah I was half asleep and didnt notice that option!
But the second one yes I would like to fix this asap. Contact me via the email please and I will get you an account so you can see what I mean. Thanks in advance!
Scott
December 31st, 2008 at 11:55 am
Hi!
I’m redesigning my website with WP and I’ve just installed your plugin. It works great! Finally I can have to different VodPod widgets of different sizes.
But I’ve a problem. I’ve placed a Video Gallery in one page (called Trailers) with some text explaing what’s in that page. However, the video gallery shows up perfect, but there’s no text. Nor before the video gallery nor after it. Is it a problem of my configuration? Or it works like that?
Thank you and great work!
December 31st, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Hi Txus,
I’m afraid that is the way it works. It’s something I want to fix but haven’t done yet. When I tried to change that previously, it wasn’t a simple fix, so I put it off.
Now that someone has mentioned it, I’m more motivated to try to fix it. Not sure when I’ll get to it but I’ll leave a comment and email you directly if/when I change that.
Thanks for your comments!
January 5th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Hi Xondie,
Does your plugin work with Wordpress 2.7?
Regards
Michael
January 5th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
I haven’t tested it with WP 2.7 myself, but others have used it successfully with 2.7.
January 14th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
i want to know how can i view gallery without login because when i am login out the gallery is not showing so please help
January 14th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Jacksone,
Whether you or logged in or not logged in, the video gallery should show up. If you have a URL where I could see this happening, I will take a look. What version of WP are you using?
January 15th, 2009 at 5:47 am
i am using wordpress 2.7 http://67.228.169.192/~tbtyi123/?page_id=2733&preview=true
and this is the link for video page when i am login then it shows when iam logging out its not showing
January 15th, 2009 at 7:39 am
I found this problem with wordpress 2.7 only please reply me its very much needed
January 15th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Hi Jacksone. I went to the page and the video gallery is showing up just fine and I am not logged in.
I notice that the link you gave me is preview mode. If you have only saved the page but haven’t yet “published” the page, then it might not show up when you are not logged in. Or if you have it set to private.
January 16th, 2009 at 5:19 am
Thanku xondie i am just making a silly mistake.i got it yesturday.
i just wont to ask u how i manage catagery in vodpod so can i categorised my video gallery
January 16th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
I don’t know that vodpod has categories. They do have tags - so you could tag all your videos with a particular tag. Currently, this video gallery does not support passing in a tag_id to the query that retrieves the videos for the gallery. Seems like a good idea though and a relatively easy fix. I will try to add that capability over the next few days.
January 22nd, 2009 at 12:28 am
Jacksone - I have updated the WordPress version of the gallery to take in an optional “tag” parameter. If you would like your gallery to only display videos from your account that use a particular tag, you can optionally specify a tag name. You can either configure this in the admin configuration page, or you can specify it on the particular page within the brackets like this:
[ Insert Video Gallery username:tagname]
I will update the Drupal version as well.
February 3rd, 2009 at 11:15 pm
I’m getting these errors.
Notice: Undefined index: cur_page in C:\wamp\www\TheMasters\wp-content\plugins\vodpod-video-gallery\vodpod_gallery_thumbs.php on line 136
Notice: Undefined index: vpp in C:\wamp\www\TheMasters\wp-content\plugins\vodpod-video-gallery\vodpod_gallery_thumbs.php on line 137
Notice: Undefined index: u in C:\wamp\www\TheMasters\wp-content\plugins\vodpod-video-gallery\vodpod_gallery_thumbs.php on line 138
Notice: Undefined index: t in C:\wamp\www\TheMasters\wp-content\plugins\vodpod-video-gallery\vodpod_gallery_thumbs.php on line 139
Notice: Undefined index: page in C:\wamp\www\TheMasters\wp-content\plugins\vodpod-video-gallery\vodpod_gallery_thumbs.php on line 142
Warning: fopen(http://api.vodpod.com/api/pod/videos.xml?pod_id=jludt&api_key=js_widget&tag_id=&page=1&per_page=12) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error in C:\wamp\www\TheMasters\wp-content\plugins\vodpod-video-gallery\vodpod_gallery_thumbs.php on line 158
Error reading RSS data.
NO clue why. the last warning error just occured when I deleted a video from my vodpod account. the ones prior to that have been there since installing the plugin
February 8th, 2009 at 10:14 am
Hi there,
Your plugin seems to be exactly what I need! I’m just trying it out for the first time and and I am having an error message which i don’t know what to do about.One video is showing up and the thumbnails do not appear, instead it reads the following: [an error occurred while processing this directive]
I am using the latest wordpress with OneTheme
Thanks if you can help me solve this.
February 8th, 2009 at 10:15 am
Here is the link . . . sorry
http://www.studioaviv.com/vopod-test/
February 8th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Coachaviv:
Sorry you are having troubles. I looked around a little bit about this error. It’s apparently a SSI module error, but I don’t know too much about that. I’ve seen some saying that it can be caused when a request takes too long, like maybe your SSI settings on your server aren’t set to allow enough time for the page to process everything. Do you have tech support at your hosting provider that you could ask about this? Who is your hosting provider?
There is another possibility that I’ve seen come up as well - that possibly your file permissions aren’t set right. I believe all files need to be set to 644 and all folders should be set to 755. Can you check to see that the files within the plugin directory are set properly?
FYI - I think their are two errors - the visible: [an error occurred while processing this directive]
and then a message within HTML comments right above it that says: SHTML Wrapper - 500 Server Error
I am not sure but I think they are separate messages. Your hosting service might have some insight. Even if they don’t know how to fix it, perhaps they can tell you something that will help us fix the problem.
February 12th, 2009 at 2:29 am
For anyone interested in John’s error messages above, we got this fixed by having him switch from a Windows server to a Linux server. Errors disappeared.
February 21st, 2009 at 1:00 am
Hi,
Some but not all of the videos in my gallery will not play. It seems to be from different sites (ie youtube, vimeo), and they play fine on the vodpod site. It is the same videos on each refresh that do not play.
Here is the link to my video page:
http://bham.fm/?page_id=1323
Thank you!
Sam George
February 21st, 2009 at 1:22 am
Hi Sam George.
Thanks so much for trying out the plugin and letting me know about this problem. This appears to be a bug in my code! It’s throwing a javascript error - probably for videos of a particular type.
I will fix this ASAP. If not tonight, then tomorrow.
Thanks!
February 21st, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Sam George,
I have fixed this bug and updated it. You can download the new version and give it a try.
The problem was with video descriptions that had line breaks in them. The line breaks were breaking the javascript. The plugin now replaces newline characters with br tags.
Let me know if you still have problems.
February 21st, 2009 at 5:55 pm
So sorry, but I have downloaded (updated 2.21.09, so must be new version) and installed new plugin from wordpress (at first just _thumbs.php, the whole thing) and I am still having the same problem!
Sam
February 21st, 2009 at 6:15 pm
I did remove the line breaks from one of the unworking videos and it will play now. I will leave the others unfixed for now so you can work on it.
Sam
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:36 am
I replaced /n with /r/n in line 119 of vodpod_gallery_thumbs.php per your instructions and it worked!! Thank you so much!!
Sam
February 22nd, 2009 at 5:32 am
hi, i have downloaded your plugin for wordpress.. i have installed it and i have put the text, in my page appear but when i want to change the video i do click and nothing, i think that dont have a link or something like that, you can check it please? The page is http://www.portaltuxtla.com/video/ there is, i hope some answer.
Carlos
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Carlos,
You are getting a javascript error of:
Error: uncaught exception: Permission denied to get property HTMLDocument.getElementById
The cause of this is that your website url has www on the front but when the iframe window opens, it does not have the www - Javascript considers these two different domains and denies permission for one to control the other.
The plugin code which creates the iframe window src is calling get_bloginfo(’wpurl’) which should get the same base url from wordpress that the rest of your blog is using but it isn’t. Do you happen to know of any reason why it would get a different base url?
I know how to fix this in a hacky way, but it would be great to get to the bottom of why this is happening.
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:09 am
hi, i dont know why but i put a new plugin (one about image’s gallery) and now the page is working, check again please and tell my if is working in your computer, maybe the plugin did the thing that you said me..
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Carlos,
For me, it isn’t working still. If you’d like to fix this the quick and dirty way, you can go to the file named vodpod_gallery.php, line 202. You’ll see the iframe code.
Replace the text:
< ?php echo get_bloginfo('wpurl'); ?>
With the text:
http://www.portaltuxtla.com
I think that will fix the problem, although I still can’t understand why it is broken currently.
February 25th, 2009 at 11:54 pm
Hi, I’m doing this for testing. I gathered 3 videos onto Vodpod, got the Wordpress plugin installed, but I’m getting a fatal error… If you go to the page below it will show you the error. Please advise!
http://www.beckydavisdesign.com/blog/?page_id=8
Thanks
February 26th, 2009 at 1:17 am
Hi Becky,
You would get this error if you are using PHP4. You ought to change your server settings to use PHP5 if you can. If you cannot switch to PHP5, you can make the error go away by changing the function calls for str_ireplace to str_replace. These appear in both php files. I cannot guarantee that everything will still work properly, but it might.
February 26th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Hi,
I’m trying to add a bunch of videos to my site, and i’ve installed the WordPress plugin etc. I’ve used the toolbar button to add some videos from Youtube to my account, and now I’m trying to post them to my site, but I get and error message “Invalid blog url” Any idea what’s going on ?
February 26th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
Hi Jyoti,
“Invalid blog url” isn’t an error message that gets generated by this plugin so I’m thinking it’s an error that vodpod is giving you. It’s hard to say without more details. What is your vodpod account name? Do you have your video gallery on a page that I can view?
February 27th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Hi,
thanks for the quick response.
My account name for Vodpod is: jsauna
The page on which my video gallery ought to go, but where i get an error message is: http://rg.kznconsulting.com/video2/
I’ve temporarily installed a new plug in for videos, but I’m not very happy with the layout.
thanks for your help
Jyoti
February 27th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
Jyoti -
It kind of looks like you don’t have the plugin configured. Did you go into the Settings section of your admin, and configure the Vodpod Username for your plugin?
February 27th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
yeah i did. Just filling in the Vodpod username and specifying how many videos per page etc, right?
March 4th, 2009 at 3:23 am
Hi, thanks for the very cool plugin! Very easy to use, we are using it on our web blogs. Just want to ask for solutions this issue we encounter - “XML error: not well-formed (invalid token) at line 856″. thanks!
March 4th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Hi angelie,
I saw the problem last night right before bed, then just looked at it first thing this morning and it appears to be fixed. Did you figure out how to fix it? Is it working for you?
Please let me know what the problem was in case others run into it. I hadn’t seen that one before.
Thanks!
March 6th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Hello, I saw your instructions to add vodpod to my site. I’ve installed it and did the setting thing. I don’t know how to use editing very well. I went to sidebar and there is a lot of stuff there. I am afraid if I paste code in there I might mess up stuff and then I will never be able to get it straight. below is what my sidebar stuff looks like, where exactly do I add it. Also you say add it to page, this is post and pages are different. If I want different videos on different pages, how do I do this. I am learning everyday but I am slow to get this edit thing.
March 6th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Hi Jeanie,
My plugin does not require any code written into the php files. My plugin is also not intended for use with the sidebar. Are you sure it is my plugin that you read, rather than the vodpod sidebar widget available from vodpod.com? They are two separate plugins.
If you are indeed trying to use my plugin, it will work equally well in both pages and posts. All you need to do is add the text into the main content area of the page or post - [Insert Video Gallery] (with or without optional parameters). This will insert the gallery automatically for you.
March 8th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Many thanks to John Ludt for pointing out a bug which is now fixed.
Previously, the main video player, upon initial load, was displaying the first video in the vodpod account even if a tag had been specified. It is now fixed so that if a tag is specified, it will show the first video in the account with that tag.
Another bug came up while I was fixing this: if a tagname has a space in it, the thumbnail frame didn’t display any videos. This is now fixed, however, if you configure the tagname in the content of a page or post, you must use %20 in places of spaces. I know that’s a little lame, but it works.
March 8th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Works great, thank you
March 8th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
It is your directions I am following. What I am asking may be so simple you can not understand me.How do you get to the “main content of the page”? Do you mean where I add a post in dashboard? or Do you mean go to appearances in dashboard and then edit theme? That is where I was speaking of in my last inquiry?
March 8th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
Jeanie,
I think I understand now. You want to go where you add (or edit) a post (or page) in the dashboard.
March 9th, 2009 at 2:38 am
I know I am a pain but I am determined to get this to work. I feel it is the best one. When I type in [Insert Video Gallery reggaeyard] I click update and all I see is [Insert Video Gallery reggaeyard] check out my site and see what I mean, http://www.reggaeyard.org
March 9th, 2009 at 2:48 am
It’s no problem at all. I want it to work for you as well.
What I see on your site is [insert video gallery reggaeyard]
I’m a little embarrassed because I really should have made it case insensitive, but this was my first plugin so I probably didn’t. It looks like you have ‘insert video gallery’ all lower case. It should be:
[Insert Video Gallery reggaeyard]
Notice the upper case letters. Double check that and let me know if it fixes the problem.
March 9th, 2009 at 3:28 am
this is crazy, but when I typed it in the way you showed the whole post and sidebars were gone from my homepage. A frame came up with a box and it had some words that were click able and when you clicked it it said url could not be found.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
I did the upper case on the proper letters, when I viewed it the page was corrupt-my post disappeared along with sidebar with a message saying url does not exist. Definately not what I wanted but it was more than just seeing the words as I wrote them. Do I put it in as visual or HTML (the codes on top right of box where you write your main content. I was using visual. I wonder if it has to do with the theme I am using. I am using Vigilance theme by Jestro.
March 9th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Here’s what box says, function.f open, this box is what appears instead of my post and all sidebar stuff.
March 9th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Jeanie,
I see the problem. There are actually 2 things.
1 - Your vodpod account name is gypsychant (you configured that correctly in settings), but you were using reggaeyard within the post itself like this:
[Insert Video Gallery reggaeyard]
Since that vodpod account name does not exist, it was throwing an error. By the way, you also had ‘reggaeyard’ in the settings as a tag name, but you haven’t actually tagged any of your videos with that key word. That doesn’t cause any errors though - just thought you might like to know.
2 - The other problem is my fault, not yours. When I developed this plugin I modeled it after a plugin that replaced the entire post (or page) content with the video gallery and so if you put other content in with the video gallery, it only displays the gallery.
I do plan on fixing this so that you can have content before and after the video gallery within a post, but I haven’t done it yet because it will take me some time to do. I added the gallery to your site as a separate post. If that works for you for the short-term, that’s the best solution I can offer. Otherwise, I hope to have that change made in the next few weeks when I find some time.
March 15th, 2009 at 1:11 am
I just checked in a new version of the plugin with a major bug fix. Previously it was not displaying any content before or after the video gallery. Now it does display all content surrounding the gallery.
This was the last known bug that I had on my list to fix, so if there is other stuff please let me know!
March 17th, 2009 at 11:46 am
hi - love the gallery - is there a way to have multiple galleries on the same page one below the other in order to group my videos?
March 20th, 2009 at 5:57 am
Hi-Xondie, love the idea of the plugin but I cannot get it to work on my site. It is showing as a blank page on my videos tab. I followed all required steps I was wondering if you can spot anything else that I may need to adjust. Your help would be appreciated. Here is the link http://buzzword101.com/bw/?page_id=19
March 20th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Hi Tashia,
I am not able to get pages to load on your site. It is running very slow and then gives me an error saying the page isn’t redirecting properly.
By any chance, are you trying to run your site on a Windows server? WordPress tends to run very poorly on Windows, especially with regard to page redirects.
March 20th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Hi-Xondie I think that the problem is fixed if you try again it should automatically load.
March 20th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Tashia,
I was able to log in and see your configuration. It all looks right to me. But there is still a problem with the pages taking a very long time to load. I believe this is probably why the video gallery isn’t working. I think the call between your site and vodpod is timing out before the data loads. That’s just my best guess. I don’t think we can get the video gallery working until the load time on your site is faster.
I’m guessing the server you are running on is Windows, rather than Apache. If that is the case, I strongly recommend switching to a new hosting server. I tried running WordPress on Windows and it is much too slow. If you are not currently on Windows, there is something else going on with your server.
I’m sorry I could not be more helpful.
March 21st, 2009 at 12:50 pm
francisten: Sorry for the delay in responding. I got caught up in other things and nearly forgot.
You can try to post two galleries in one post, but right now, I don’t think the plugin will recognize more than one. The way it works, I think it just gets the first occurrence.
I like your idea though, and I will keep it in mind for future versions. Not sure when that will happen though since I think it would take me a while to figure out how to make it work. But I will probably get around to figuring it out eventually.
In the meantime, you can put multiple galleries on your page by putting them in separate posts and using different vodpod accounts or one account with different tags.
April 2nd, 2009 at 10:33 am
thanx xondie - i would love to be able to change the background color of the gallery to a darker color to match my site. how or where can i do that? is it possible. please say yes
April 2nd, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Hi francis ten,
Not sure which background you mean. There is the light grey background that is around all of the gallery - you can change that in gallery.css. The class name is vp_gallery. Change the attribute background-color to any color you wish.
The white background behind the big video player, that loads white initially when the page loads, I’m not actually sure you can change that.
Take a look through gallery.css (it’s part of the plugin) and you will see various background-color settings that you can change.
April 2nd, 2009 at 9:58 pm
Hey Xondie -
I echo everybody’s sentiments here when I say excellent work - this thing is simply awesome.
One request (may be a bit ambitious)
I was wondering if you could include the ‘Pop Out’ function for the video window like the one that exists in the VodPod Video Widget plugin (By spencerking and alexkingorg).
That way, you can pull the video around outside of the page (obviously), but the popout window itself then becomes resizable, so as to be able to fullscreen any video you’re watching. (This is in relation to a bunch of CollegeHumor.com test videos I’ve recently jammed into my new test VodPod account)
April 2nd, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Oh and also,
I’ve got the VodPod Video Widget (spencerking/alexkingorg) running on my homepage as a custom section (not without some container sizing errors anyhow…) if you want to see what I mean by the popout reference:
Massive thanks and Cheers!
Beautiful work.
~Jonesy
April 3rd, 2009 at 1:00 am
Jonesy -
Thank you so much! And thanks to everyone else’s kind words as well. I’m so glad to have been able to contribute something of value to the WordPress community since I have gotten so much out of others’ plugins and contributions.
I’ll take a look at the pop-out player and see what I need to do to make that happen. It’s a great idea so I’ll add it to my to-do list. Can’t say when, but it’s on my radar. Thanks for the suggestion!
April 3rd, 2009 at 8:43 pm
I am looking to use this for my own ftp based videos - is this designed to be used that way? These videos would be uploaded to my website via ftp and then linked into wordpress - i dont want to use any outside video links.
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:04 pm
James - This plugin only works as a way to display videos from your vodpod account. It will not work in the way you need.
April 4th, 2009 at 1:51 am
What are the limitations of the account? Can i have private videos in the account but play on my website in a members only section? Do you have any recommendations for a plug-in that works with wordpress via my own videos? that works like this plug-in?
April 4th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
James - I’m afraid I don’t know too much about galleries for self-hosted videos. I don’t host my own videos so I haven’t had much need for one. The problem I was attempting to solve was to have a video gallery that allowed me to have videos from many different sources (youtube, googlevideo, vimeo, etc). Since Vodpod handles all the back end aggregation, I only had to focus on pulling in the videos into a gallery.
I know that Vodpod allows for private videos, but I’m not sure how it works with regard to displaying them on a website. I can’t see how that would work since your WordPress site wouldn’t be “logged in” to Vodpod to view the private videos. Even if a user logs into your site, Vodpod doesn’t know anything about that user being a member of your Vodpod account, so I don’t think it would work.
April 7th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
I get the following error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: str_ireplace() in /home/********/public_html/wp-content/plugins/vodpod-video-gallery/vodpod_gallery_thumbs.php on line 125
April 7th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
John - your server is set to PHP4. You must use PHP5.
If you cannot switch to PHP5, you can make the error go away by changing the function calls for str_ireplace to str_replace. These appear in both php files. I cannot guarantee that everything will still work properly.
April 10th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
Hi, I got this error:
Warning: fopen() [function.fopen]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /nfs/c01/h02/mnt/33056/domains/georgiannapinto.com/html/html/gfd/wp-content/plugins/vodpod-video-gallery/vodpod_gallery.php on line 196
Warning: fopen(http://api.vodpod.com/api/pod/videos.xml?pod_id=getfreshdaily&tag_id=&per_page=1&api_key=js_widget) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /nfs/c01/h02/mnt/33056/domains/georgiannapinto.com/html/html/gfd/wp-content/plugins/vodpod-video-gallery/vodpod_gallery.php on line 196
Error reading RSS data.
Is it because I’m using PHP4?
April 10th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Hi, I fixed the issue. I’m hosted on Media Temple and they disabled fopen due to certain vulnerabilities. I had to edit my php.ini file with:
allow_url_fopen = On
Then, because of PHP4 I had to change str_ireplace to str_replace in vodpod_gallery.php and vodpod_gallery_thumbs.php
Maybe this might help anyone else having the same problem.
April 10th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
Just realized all of that was mentioned above.
April 11th, 2009 at 1:10 am
Georgianna,
Glad you got it working, and thanks for sharing the info about the “file access” error. I don’t think I’ve seen that one before. I’m sure it will be helpful to people.
April 13th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
Hey I am trying to paste the video gallery widget into a page but keep getting the following message where the gallery should be:
Warning: fopen() [function.fopen]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /home/mexicoreporter/mexicoreporter.com/wp-content/plugins/vodpod-video-gallery/vodpod_gallery.php on line 196
Warning: fopen(http://api.vodpod.com/api/pod/videos.xml?pod_id=mexicoreporter\’s_videos&tag_id=&per_page=1&api_key=js_widget) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /home/mexicoreporter/mexicoreporter.com/wp-content/plugins/vodpod-video-gallery/vodpod_gallery.php on line 196
any ideas?
April 14th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Deborah,
Gerogianna just had a similar problem which she fixed. Check out the comments just a couple before yours and see if that helps.
April 21st, 2009 at 11:49 am
How to add my own videos or delete my old added videos from vodpod-video-gallery?
April 21st, 2009 at 11:55 am
infinets: You add or remove videos from your gallery by adding/removing them in your Vodpod account. The video gallery pulls your videos in directly from your Vodpod account, so whatever is in there will be displayed on your video gallery.
Go to vodpod.com and sign up for an account if you have not already done so.
April 22nd, 2009 at 3:04 am
great and useful plugin. thanks for detail post..
April 29th, 2009 at 11:58 am
Hi, I just want to change the background colour of the gallery from white to black. Can find in the CSS where to do this. Could you point me in the right direction?
April 29th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
There is a file in the plugin folder, gallery.css
I believe the element you want to change is the first one listed, #vp_gallery
It currently has a background color of #F1F1F1.
May 23rd, 2009 at 12:09 pm
I’m getting the famous allow_url_fopen message, but my hosting provider won’t allow me to change the value to On. Is there another solution for this problem?
it’s VERY important.
tnx.
May 23rd, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Wolfy -
It’s no problem if your hosting provider won’t allow you to change your configuration options. Most won’t, including mine.
What you can usually do is override their values by creating a php.ini file and putting it in your public_html directory or wp-content directory. You can probably put it in the vodpod gallery plugin directory if you want it to only be used for that code, although I’ve never tried that.
Create a file and name it php.ini and put it on your server. Then add this line:
allow_url_fopen = On
If you add any other settings to this file, you’ll want to put a semicolon at the end of the line:
allow_url_fopen = On;
Give that a try.
May 23rd, 2009 at 2:53 pm
it didn’t work, any idea why?
May 24th, 2009 at 12:39 am
It’s hard to say without seeing it or knowing any specifics.
Is it giving you the same exact error it was giving you before? I would try it in a couple of different directories. And also try it with and without the ; at the end of the line. I’m never quite sure if you need it or not.
I’ve also seen it like this:
allow_url_fopen = 1
May 25th, 2009 at 4:23 am
Hey there..
I get the same fopen message.
I tried everything you’ve said. Nothing works… I dont know much about php and stuff… I’m blogging from brazil.
My error message:
PHP Warning: fopen() [function.fopen]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in E:\home\fanipacheco\Web\faclube\wp-content\plugins\vodpod-video-gallery\vodpod_gallery.php on line 196
PHP Warning: fopen(http://api.vodpod.com/api/pod/videos.xml?pod_id=juliebbb&tag_id=&per_page=1&api_key=js_widget) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in E:\home\fanipacheco\Web\faclube\wp-content\plugins\vodpod-video-gallery\vodpod_gallery.php on line 196
Can you help me?
Thanks
May 26th, 2009 at 1:18 am
Hm… This seems to be an ongoing problem for many people.
I saw an alternative way to implement what I am doing. I will try the new implementation and see if that works better. Please give me until next weekend to get to this. Sorry for your hassle.
May 26th, 2009 at 4:29 am
Thanks for your reply.
I contacted my hosting server support and what they told me, is that since I use a windows platform for my website, the fopen is not allowed, Meaning there’s nothing that I can do to make it work.
It’s strange, since if I just copy the code directly from the vodpod page and past it on my blog’s page, it works fine. My problem with doing it that way, is that I can’t style the gallery like I want.
I’ll wait for your next reply.
Thanks… Julie
May 27th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
I also had the exact same problem as Julie..hopefully you can help us all :D.Thanx
May 30th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Julie and Ahmad,
I have implemented the plugin using curl, which I have read online should solve this problem. I do not have a Windows server to test this on and since I haven’t run into this problem, I can’t be sure this has actually solved it.
Would you both mind trying out this new version of the plugin for me and if it works for you, I will commit my changes to wordpress.org so that others can benefit from the change as well.
http://xondie.com/temp/vodpod-video-gallery.zip
Thanks so much for your help! And for your patience this week.
May 30th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Thank you for helping us out….
So I tried the new version of the plugin and I get a video showing up, but underneath the video I get this error:
Notice: Undefined index: cur_page in /www/host.com/a/m/p/amparekh/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/vodpod-video-gallery/vodpod_gallery_thumbs.php on line 131
Notice: Undefined index: vpp in /www/host.com/a/m/p/amparekh/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/vodpod-video-gallery/vodpod_gallery_thumbs.php on line 132
Notice: Undefined index: u in /www/host.com/a/m/p/amparekh/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/vodpod-video-gallery/vodpod_gallery_thumbs.php on line 133
Notice: Undefined index: t in /www/host.com/a/m/p/amparekh/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/vodpod-video-gallery/vodpod_gallery_thumbs.php on line 134
Notice: Undefined index: page in /www/host.com/a/m/p/amparekh/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/vodpod-video-gallery/vodpod_gallery_thumbs.php on line 137
Now : after scrolling down past the error, I get the vid files for my profile showing but I can’t click any of them except the first.
I hope theres something else you can do :), thanks
May 31st, 2009 at 7:08 pm
For anyone having an issue with the “fopen() [function.fopen]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration….” error message, I’ve just checked in a fix for it. The plugin now uses curl when calling the vodpod api.
It’s going to write a file called temp.xml so make sure you have the correct permissions set on your vodpod-video-gallery folder. Usually 755 is fine.
June 1st, 2009 at 4:01 am
Is it possible to change the background color of the gallery? I would love to have it be black instead of gray but can’t find where to change it. Thanks!
June 2nd, 2009 at 6:56 pm
I have figured out how to change most everything with the layout. However, there is a white rectangle under the pagination links that I can’t cover up or get rid of. I have managed to insert a rectangle same size right below it but I can’t figure out how to get it to cover up the mysterious blank field. I want the blue one where the white one is. Also, the gray line above the video title will not disappear no matter what I do either. Thanks!
[IMG]http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee267/mffpetergriffin/vodpodplayer.jpg[/IMG]
June 2nd, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Jonathan, I’m so sorry, I forgot to respond to you.
It’s hard to see exactly from the image, rather than looking at the page, but I would think that if you changed your configuration settings so that your “iframe height” is smaller, than that empty space would not be there.
I’m not sure about the grey line. If there is a page I could look at, I could probably tell you more. You can email it to me, rather than posting it publicly at info (at) xondie.com
June 2nd, 2009 at 7:51 pm
They gray line was a gif image and the white space was from the number of thumbnails reduced to 1-4. Everything is good now. Thanks so much!
June 2nd, 2009 at 8:57 pm
Oh good - glad it all worked out.
June 4th, 2009 at 5:31 am
This rocks. You rock. Thank you for sharing and helping people out. I send you a virtual beer
June 5th, 2009 at 3:37 am
hello I have followed all the instructions am on a linux server and using PHP5
when I try t use your widget my sidebar goes away and I get a white box that has this error in it
http://vodpod.com/watch/1718487-baby-einstein-and-sydney-on-vimeo vimeo.com http://www.vimeo.com/5010411 543513 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:00:08 -0500 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:00:08 -0500 kellyjanice http://s3.amazonaws.com/vodpod.com.videos.thumbnail/1718487.jpg http://s3.amazonaws.com/vodpod.com.videos.thumbnail/1718487.medium160.jpg http://s3.amazonaws.com/vodpod.com.videos.thumbnail/1718487.large.jpg 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 4cac48094ebfae4be7b533299217a6c0306d7a85 Error reading RSS data.
any ideas?
June 5th, 2009 at 11:34 am
Kelly,
I think I may have messed things up for some servers with my last check-in. Trying to figure that out.
Would you mind trying out this previous version and see if it works for you?
http://xondie.com/temp/vodpod-video-gallery-revert.zip
June 5th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Hy, I tried to update from 1.1 to 1.5 and I had the same error with “Error reading RSS data.” at the end as kellyjanice. Vodpod-video-gallery-revert.zip worked for me!
June 6th, 2009 at 2:16 am
thanks so much the revert worked just fine!
June 6th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Teety and kellyjanice -
Thanks so much for trying that out for me. I’ve reverted it back to using fopen rather than curl and checked it in. I’ll have to figure something else out for those having trouble with fopen.
In the meantime, I’ve made the curl version available for those who want to try it out at:
http://xondie.com/temp/vodpod-video-gallery-curl.zip
All other zip files that were in there have been removed.
June 14th, 2009 at 2:35 am
Hi,
I’m having the same problem as mentionned above (ireplace > replace). Except that I can’t find the /vodpod_gallery_thumbs.php file. I can’t find that file in my plugin editor and when I enter it directly in the browser bar, it’s saying that “Sorry, this file can’t be modified”.
Changing /vodpod_gallery.php has arranged half of the things. When I go to my video gallery page (to be…) I can see only one video player and its written under : “Fatal error: Call to undefined function: str_ireplace() in /homez.154/dolphinc/www/wp-content/plugins/vodpod-video-gallery/vodpod_gallery_thumbs.php on line 125″
So… (I post that in case it could help some buddies) I went to FileZilla to modify it directly and now it’s working properly !
Thanks for your plugin ! What you describes up there is EXACTLY what I’ve been looking for for a while.
June 14th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Hi,
I was wondering: is it possible to enlarge a little the thumbnails?
June 15th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
Please help: the video gallery shows up just fine, but I lose any text before or after it?
June 15th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Good job with this plugin, easy to use, works great, thanks
June 15th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Don’t call me stupid or owt, but ive been using wp for a while now and just found this plugin after searcing for ages. But after i installed it and got my Vodpod account, and configured it, it displays this error message when i view the page.
Warning: fopen(http://api.vodpod.com/api/pod/videos.xml?pod_id=Blaydon%20District&tag_id=&per_page=1&api_key=js_widget) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error in /wp-content/plugins/vodpod-video-gallery/vodpod_gallery.php on line 189
Error reading RSS data.
Any idea whats going, or more like ‘what i broke’
June 15th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Hi Jamie - I think you are using the wrong pod name. It should be the string that appears in your vodpod url - such as yourpod.vodpod.com
Pierre - There is a css file included with the gallery plugin. You can change the size of the thumbnails and anything else. The name of the file is gallery.css.
Amanda - That used to be an issue that I fixed in more recent versions. Let me double check and make sure I didn’t accidentally revert to an older version. If you have are using an older version of the plugin, please download a new version.
June 15th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
I managed to sort the problem, i got my self confused when i set it up and typed my username in with a space, where it’s not meant to have one.
June 16th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
I checked out your comments on the covering up text problem. I have the recent version and it’s still covering up my text. Any idea how I can fix that? I tried putting the “[ Insert Video Gallery hahahumour ]” in between , didn’t work.
June 16th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
Hmm, after the word “between” I put in the p tag with spaces, yet it still disappeared. I’m sure you get the point anyway.
June 16th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Yes, you’re right. I messed up. I had to revert some changes I had made because they were breaking things and I must have reverted to the wrong version. Very sorry. I will fix ASAP. It isn’t working on mine either.
June 16th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
I’ve fixed it and checked in the changes but so far WordPress is not reflecting that the plugin has been updated. Usually it takes 15 minutes or less. Once it says “Last Updated: 2009-6-16″ then the fixed version will be there. Hopefully soon.
June 17th, 2009 at 5:35 am
hi
I juest added your plug in in my site en.kashmirportal.net and added [ Insert Video Gallery ] as per instructions on your site and config the same way.
But when I preview the page its just comes empty with these words: [ insert video gallery ] nothing else comes up.
Could you tell me whats the problem with my site?
Looking forward for your assistance.
June 17th, 2009 at 6:12 am
I got it right it now. Thanks any way, its a great plugin and nice and easy to install.
Great stuff
June 17th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Thanks kashmirportal. Glad it’s working out for you.
Regarding my previous message about my latest checkin, WordPress is still showing the wrong date for my latest update, but it does appear to have the latest files when you download it. So the problem with the text not appearing before and after the gallery should be fixed now.
June 19th, 2009 at 11:25 am
Hello,
I just installed Wordpress 2.8. and Vodpod plugin on my blog.
When I try to insert a video Gallery in a page ([ Insert Video Gallery Podname ]), I have the following message: “Fatal error: Call to undefined function: str_ireplace() in /homez.47/vsangers/www/cptest/wp-content/plugins/vodpod-video-gallery/vodpod_gallery.php on line 277″…
Is there a compatibility problem between Vodpod and Wordpress 2.8 ?
June 19th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
kikope - You need to use php5. You are currently running php4.
June 19th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Thanks Xondie ! All is perfect now ! And congratulations for this very useful and complete plugin !
Best regards.
Kikope.
June 22nd, 2009 at 1:55 pm
I’m testing your awesome VodPod Video Gallery at a developing site: alamuze.com, and can’t wait to use it. But, I am having a similar problem to Scott, Dec 27, 08 — If you click to the post page [http://alamuze.com/?p=75/], you see two versions of the post. The top one is unwanted. How to fix this?
Thank you for any help you can give. I know you’re busy.
All the best,
alaJoAnn
June 22nd, 2009 at 10:30 pm
alaJoAnn,
This is happening because the vodpod gallery code is being displayed as part of your meta description in the HEAD tag. Are you using a plugin for SEO purposes that is generating your meta tags for you? Is there an option to filter out all HTML code from your meta tags? This is the problem and if you can fix that, the unwanted gallery at the top will disappear.
June 23rd, 2009 at 2:08 am
I found that my theme, Mimbo, has an unexpected “quirk.” It is solved by using the optional excerpt field in the write panel. Now VodPod Video Gallery looks and works beautiful on the post page.
Thanks for your reply. A SEO plugin wasn’t the problem in this case, but you got me hunting on a different path, until I finally found the answer.
June 26th, 2009 at 6:53 am
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June 27th, 2009 at 12:14 am
Is there something special I have to do so that it displays a video when you first go to the page? If I click on one of my thumbnails it will play, but your example gallery loads with the most recent video already up.
June 27th, 2009 at 12:19 am
Others have had this problem as well. I think it has to do with how long the api call to vodpod is taking to retrieve information but I’m really not sure. On a couple of sites I’ve seen, the big video loads sometimes but not others. On other sites, it seems to never load (until you click a thumbnail, that is).
I’m perplexed as to how to fix it, to be honest. I’m open to ideas and suggestions on what it could be or how I might fix it.
June 27th, 2009 at 1:36 am
I’m throwing around some ideas for the fix. I’ll let you know what I come up with. I just wanted to make sure it was an actual issue and not just me missing something before I spent some time on it.
June 27th, 2009 at 1:56 am
Wow, cool, thanks! I really appreciate you taking the time to look into it.
June 27th, 2009 at 2:34 am
@xondie
Do you mind emailing me so we don’t fill up this comment thread? I have a few questions about the vodpod api. I’ve managed to get it working, but the videos autoplay.