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John Ayers
John Ayers

Reputation: 519

WordPress get YouTube image thumbnail

I'm trying to let users post a video on one our sites with text beneath it. Is there a way display the YouTube thumbnail image as a user's post thumbnail.

Example:

I post a YouTube video on the site: IMAGE LINK

Using HTML/PHP I pull in the posts on to my website using the below code:

<?php
    $posts = get_posts('cat=3');
    foreach ($posts as $post) : setup_postdata( $post );
?>
        <?php the_date(); echo "<br />"; ?>
        <?php the_title(); ?>
    <?php endforeach; ?>

I want to load the image/video and then the title of the post. Not the date or any other content. How can this be done?

Then how can I make that thumbnail a link to go to the actual post?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 7049

Answers (2)

John Ayers
John Ayers

Reputation: 519

The above answer got me to this part. I figured Id share my corrected code.

<?php
    $posts = get_posts('cat=3');
    foreach ($posts as $post) : setup_postdata( $post ); 
?>
        <img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'video', true); ?>/0.jpg" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" width="200" height="150">
        <br />
        <?php the_title(); ?>    
    <?php endforeach; ?>

Upvotes: 4

Jared Dunham
Jared Dunham

Reputation: 1527

You could grab the video id by using a custom field and place it inside the Video Thumbnail URL to get the video thumbnail.

Upvotes: 1

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