For those running the PlayTube script you may have noticed that autoplay on mobile does not work. It’s currently an issue with the Mediaelementjs framework that PlayTube script uses. I’ve come up with a simple solution to resolve the autoplay issue with Mediaelementjs that works with all major mobile browsers. The only issue is with …
Another simple modification to your PlayTube core would be setting the autoplay checkbox defaulted to checked. This way anyone that visits your website will automatically be shown the next recommended video. If they choose to opt out by unchecking the Autoplay box, then they will still get the cookie stored so autoplay is no longer …
By default the results in PlayTube are sorted by oldest. In order to sort the results by newest, we need to make a small core modification. This isn’t tested with the latest version of PlayTube as I am still on the 1.4.3 version, but the modification is simple, just change ASC to DESC. Find in /sources/search/content.php …
Get your pages to load up to 80% faster! Some of you may not know, but Google Page Rank counts page speed as a factor. You’d be surprised how many do not know this. If you are one of the few then awesome, you may already know this. Are you familiar with GZip? If not …
You may have noticed thumbnail sharing videos to social media via the PlayTube script sometimes shares the first Up Next video thumbnail. This is due to the image being too small for Facebook OG data. The reason is, that the script fetches maxresdefault.jpg, which sometimes Youtube does not provide and instead leaves a generic small …
