So your site embeds videos from Youtube, Vimeo, and other video sharing services? Do you have a problem with dead videos and no way to track them unless the video is reported? I have built a simple solution to automate this process. Currently it works for YouTube tracking, but I have plans to develop it …
I’ve had a couple of people ask how I have the Youtube player instead of the Playtube Player on Vigeos. Deen from PlayTube actually saved me a lot of time with research and implementation and had a quick solution for me, so I figured I would share it with y’all in case you wanted to …
I have a bunch of categories, so I had to be a little creative in the way I wanted to show them. With some simple CSS you can do the same. Add in /themes/default/css/custom.style.css
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/* Desktop Nav Columns */ nav.navbar-findcond ul.dropdown-menu.categories-drop-down { columns: 3 !important; -webkit-columns: 3 !important; -moz-columns: 3 !important; } |
You’ll need to clear your cache for this to fully take effect. Some users won’t see this until they …
PlayTube’s core doesn’t have an option to go to the video by clicking a button like some other services provide, however with a very simple and easy core modification you can link your watermark to your video’s url instead of it going to your website’s homepage. This modification only works with direct uploaded video’s as …
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 …
