WP Wizard » YouTube http://wpwizard.net I ❤ WordPress Sat, 05 Mar 2011 12:30:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 WordPress Plugin: YouTube SimpleGallery 1.5 http://wpwizard.net/my-plugins/wordpress-plugin-youtube-simplegallery-1-5/ http://wpwizard.net/my-plugins/wordpress-plugin-youtube-simplegallery-1-5/#comments Sat, 05 Mar 2011 12:30:28 +0000 Stian Andreassen http://wpwizard.net/?p=738 I know it’s just a week since I released the previous version of YouTube SimpleGallery, but feedback and suggestions keep pouring in from the users. And I think some of them are so good, I have to implement them immediately – and when they work out, I just can’t wait to release a new version. Sorry! So here it is; YouTube SimpleGallery 1.5 with a small batch of user requested features.

New features in this version include:

  • Option for thumbnail size: using the largest thumbnail available from YouTube (480×360), users can now define the desired width of the thumbnails on the Settings Page.
  • Option for columns: Defining the number of thumbs that fits in one row within their current theme, users can define the numbers of thumbs per row. Rows will be broken with clear: both; avoiding broken galleries due to long titles, etc. The number of columns can also be defined for each gallery, using [youtubegallery cols=x], overriding the default settings.
  • Style option for titles: Users can now define, from the Settings Page, their own CSS styles for the titles.

Again I owe a debt of gratitude to the user base, who provide invaluable feedback and suggestions, helping me develop YouTube SimpleGallery further and further, and (hopefully) continually making it better. Thank you all! Keep the feedback coming!

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New features include:

  • Added support for Widgets – just go to Appearance > Widgets and add as many galleries to your Sidebar as you want
  • Added support for Fancybox (use Fancybox for WordPress)
  • Added option to autoplay videos on click
  • Embedding is now HTML5 compliant for all Gallery Effects.
  • Detailed description of Usage and FAQ on Settings Page.

Most of these new features are requests/suggestions from users – hope you enjoy! I’ve tried to test this version on several WP-installs, on both Mac and Windows, and in several browsers. Still, there might be bugs, so please don’t hesitate to leave feedback and bug reports, either here on in the WP forums.

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I’ve also added an option for HD-video; you can thick a checkbox on the Settings-page, and the gallery will use the HD-version of the video wherever it’s available.

That’s all for now. Go update your YouTube SimpleGallery to the latest version …

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New option in the plugs

Both video gallery plugins now have an added option, which let’s you define if links should be opened in new windows/tabs when going directly to YouTube.com or Vimeo.com. I also changed the Vimeo plug slightly, to use an embedding that is more friendly to non-Flash devices like iPhone/iPad/etc.

The changes in Global Screen Options is minor, mostly just bugfixes.

]]> http://wpwizard.net/my-plugins/updated-wordpress-plugins/feed/ 0 WordPress Plugin: YouTube SimpleGallery 1.0 http://wpwizard.net/my-plugins/wordpress-plugin-youtube-simplegallery-1-0/ http://wpwizard.net/my-plugins/wordpress-plugin-youtube-simplegallery-1-0/#comments Sat, 11 Sep 2010 16:02:31 +0000 Stian Andreassen http://stianandreassen.com/?p=480 Wow! It’s been seven months since the last update of the YouTube SimpleGallery plugin. A lot has happened since then, not the least the release of WordPress 3.0. Since its first release in December 2009 the plug has been downloaded almost 3.500 times! Lately I’ve been getting a lot of e-mails with bugs – and I really appreciate that, keep it up! – especially about broken thumbnails, and sometimes about problems with Thickbox.

I’ve tried to eliminate all these bugs in this latest version, and hopefully I’ve been able to do that. But YouTube is huge, and I can’t test every video on it with my plug, so feedback from its users are invaluable.

Also, I’ve added an option to use Shadowbox JS instead of Thickbox. This seems like a smart move since development of Thickbox has been discontinued (the Thickbox option is kept, though, for backwards compatibility). Personally I like Shadowbox a lot better than Thickbox, especially when using titles. I hope Shadowbox will work better (e.g. in terms of conflict with other plugins), and that YouTube SimpleGallery has been ever better!

Oh yeah, I’ve also decided to move it out of beta, since I now feel confident it’s a working and usable plugin. So head over and download it, or go to your WP-Dashboard and upgrade it!  As always, any feedback is appreciated!

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The oEmbed feature means you can just paste a YouTube URI in your post, and it will show up as an embedded video on your site. Nifty! But URIs passed to the plugin was thus parsed and output as embedding code, which broke the whole shebang (this bug only occured when using URIs without title/description in front).

The version just released fixes this, so if you’re running on WP 2.9 or later, you should upgrade YouTube SimpleGallery. It also includes a minor fix for YouTube URIs containing double dashes, since WP changes these to ndash.

Thanks to everyone who has reported bugs – it’s very helpful for further development! Keep doing so; either in the comments, via email, or in the WordPress Forum.

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Read more about the YouTube SimpleGallery plugin.

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Read more about the YouTube SimpleGallery plugin.

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The script worked great, and I figured it would be pretty easy to convert it to a plugin – so I did. Check out YouTube SimpleGallery v0.1 Beta. I’m releasing it as a beta version. Please test it out, and report back any bugs.

Demo:

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