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fw-vimeo-videowall

Description

Displays a user, group, album or channel vimeo videowall with thumbnails or small videos or a list of video titles in sidebar or content. If more than 20 videos are to be displayed, then a pagination système will appear.

Choice to use

  • Widget : A widget with custom settings
  • Content Short tags : you can add a videowall to a post or page
  • Template tag : for advanced themes, you can place the videowall wherever you want using a template tag

You may choose to display clickable video thumbnails or titles which will open a window with Vimeo default sized video or small playable videos or a list of video clickable titles. You may choose how many thumbnails or titles you want to display.

Localized

  • English
  • French

If you have translated this plugin in another language, please let me know and I’ll add your translation to the plugin package.

Installation

  1. Upload the fw-vimeo-videowall folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. If you want to customize the CSS file, copy fw-vimeo-videowall.css file to your template directory so your styles won’t be overwritten on next plugin upgrade.

Widget

  1. From you template widget menu, slide the Vimeo Videowall widget to your sidebar
  2. Choose your settings
  3. Save widget

Content short tags

You can display a videowall in a page or post by using the [fwvvw] short tag. This tag can take different arguments. Example : [fwvvw id=30936 source="group" number="10"]

Template tag

You can use the fw_vimeowall_display() function in your template files. Example : <?php if (function_exists('fw_vimeowall_display')) { fw_vimeowall_display('id=petole&source=user&type=image'); } ?>

Arguments for short tags and template tag

  1. id : the Vimeo user, group, album or channel ID you intend to use. This can be identified in the Vimeo url. Default is “petole”.
  2. source : the source type can be “user”, “group”, “album” or “channel”. Default is “user”.
  3. type : will determine if you want a clickage image or title of the video or the video itself to be displayed. Values are “image” or “title” or “video”. Default is “image”.
  4. number : number of thumbnails to display. Default is 4, a 0 value will display all.
  5. width : thumbnail max width. Default is 100. It has no effet if  type is set to “title”.
  6. height : thumbnail max height. Default is 100. It has no effet if  type is set to “title”.
  7. echo : if true, displays the videowall, if false return the html without displaying it. Default is true.

Screenshot

Changelog

1.3.2

  • Corrected bug : Cross not closing in certain situations (reported by Remk and Eric)
  • Corrected bug : witdh setting not working anymore (reported by Mark)

1.3.1

  • Corrected bug : Widget title always displays 1 (reported by Sherman)

1.3

  • Corrected bug : display a single video (reported by Jaryd)
  • Added the video title under thumbnail feature (requested by Jaryd)

1.2.1

  • Corrected bug : limited number of videos displayed did not work since 1.2 (reported by Dan)

1.2

  • Corrected W3C issues with id attributes
  • Added pagination feature when number of videos is greater than 20. This is limited by the Vimeo API (Issue reported by weremoose).

1.1

  • Added an option to display a list of clickable titles instead of thumbnails or videos (as requested by Tim Johnson)
  • corrected a bug on CSS choice (default plugin CSS or custom CSS in template directory)

1.0

  • First plugin release

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156 Comments

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  1. Tim Johnson
    26 January 2010 at 9:10 pm

    Is there a way to modify the plugin where instead of image or video I could do just a list of the Video titles?

    Reply
  2. Fairweb
    27 January 2010 at 5:47 am

    Good idea Tim. Thanks for asking, I’ll see what I can do and will update the plugin if it works.

    Reply
  3. Fairweb
    27 January 2010 at 7:18 am

    Ok Tim, your requested feature is now available. You can upgrade.

    Reply
  4. weremoose
    27 January 2010 at 7:33 pm

    Hello,

    nice plugin, exactly what I was looking for.

    I played around with it. It seems that no matter the number attribute, any number above 20 results to 20 videos maximum. Is there any way to change this maximum to 40 or 50? I tried to find it but I couldn’t.

    Thanks anyways!

    Reply
  5. Fairweb
    27 January 2010 at 7:37 pm

    weremoose, I don’t have that many videos so I can’t test that. Please give me an account, channel or group with more than 20 videos so I can test it. I did not limit the number of videos but maybe Vimeo does. I’ll check on that.

    Reply
  6. weremoose
    28 January 2010 at 10:22 pm

    I tried animation in mine and it looks like this:
    http://www.whyisthisnotadream.net/wp/

    id=”animation”

    I guessed there should be a default limit as with more that 2000 videos it wouldn’t be right for jut one page, but from 2000 to 20?

    I guess it is a vimeo thing.

    Reply
  7. Fairweb
    29 January 2010 at 3:59 am

    Found it ! I’m using the simple Vimeo API which indeed only displays 20 videos max. There is a Vimeo Advanced API which allows more flexibility. I’ll digg on that but the plugin may get heavier so it may be a good idea to create a different advanced plugin for that. If I do it, I’ll let you know.

    Reply
  8. Fairweb
    29 January 2010 at 4:29 am

    I found a pagination possibility in the simple API so that’s what I’ll use on the next version of this plugin. Just give me a bit of time as this means adding different arguments and quite a few changes to my program.

    Reply
  9. Fred
    29 January 2010 at 6:37 am

    In using this as a sidebar widget, all widgets placed below it get pushed way down the page leaving an unacceptable appearance of white space. Wonder why? I’d very much like to use this. Merci.

    Reply
  10. Fairweb
    29 January 2010 at 6:51 am

    Hi Fred, can you give me a url where I could see the odd behaviour ? It seems like a CSS problem but I can have a look and see if I can help.

    Reply
  11. weremoose
    29 January 2010 at 8:26 am

    Thanks a lot for this, highly appreciated!

    Reply
  12. Fairweb
    3 February 2010 at 3:48 pm

    weremoose, there will be an upgrade very shortly.

    Reply
  13. Dan
    4 February 2010 at 4:14 pm

    Great plugin but there seems to a problem with the latest version and the amount of videos displayed. I have selected 6 but it keps showing 11.

    Help please

    http://www.hydroracertv.com

    Reply
  14. Dan
    4 February 2010 at 4:21 pm

    My problem is with “Number of videos” I have slected 6 but it shows everything

    http://www.hydroracertv.com

    Help please

    Thanks

    Reply
  15. Fairweb
    4 February 2010 at 4:57 pm

    Hi Dan,

    What settings are you using ? Are you using the widget, with group /user… ? Please give me your exact setting so I can reproduce the same context and apply suitable fix.

    Reply
  16. Fairweb
    4 February 2010 at 5:34 pm

    Don’t bother Dan, I found the bug and will release a new version with the fix very shortly. Thanks for reporting.

    Reply
  17. Dan
    4 February 2010 at 6:09 pm

    Thank you very much I will just wait for the fix.

    Thanks again

    Dan

    Reply
  18. Dan
    5 February 2010 at 12:01 am

    Great quick fix thank you so much.

    Dan

    Reply
  19. Jaryd Malbin
    11 February 2010 at 6:56 am

    Is there any functionality to allow playing of private or password protected videos?

    Reply
  20. Fairweb
    11 February 2010 at 7:27 am

    I’m not sure we can do that with the Vimeo Simple API Jaryd. I suppose it can be done with the Advanced API which I’m not using for this plugin.
    However, if you get any information regarding this possibility with simple API, please let me know.

    Reply
  21. Jaryd Malbin
    11 February 2010 at 8:47 am

    Thanks for the reply. Another question: Is it possible to append the video name under the thumbnail? My clips generally start with the first frame blank, and it doesn’t offer enough information to choose from.

    Reply
  22. Paul
    22 February 2010 at 3:39 pm

    Hi Myriam

    Quick question about this nice little plugin you made.

    When clicking on the video thumb nail, it only leads
    to the video at the main VIMEO page ?

    Would it be possible to have the video played within
    the wordpress page ?

    I currently use Vimeo as my primary video hosting,
    and I’m sure that there are many of Vimeo users
    who will be very very happy if there is a plugin to allow
    having the video playlist ( with thumbnail ) that will
    play the video right away instead of redirecting to Vimeo.

    Thank you very much for your effort.

    Reply
  23. Fairweb
    22 February 2010 at 3:53 pm

    Hi Paul,

    I am quite surprised by your question as my plugin opens a div in WP in which the video is played (and not a Vimeo page). Could you please give me the url of your website where this occurs. I intend to release a new version fairly soon so if there is a bug, I might just as well fix it for this version.

    Reply
  24. Paul
    22 February 2010 at 4:46 pm

    Hi again Myriam

    Just to be clear for all other users that might be browsing
    and reading my comment above. By looking at the screenshots,
    I was too quick to assume that it just provides links to Vimeo page.

    Actually this plugin does indeed work exactly the way
    it’s said in the description.

    I have to say thank to Myriam for a very very quick reply.

    It shows your great effort on the support part
    which is the most important thing for clients to look for.

    Thanks again.

    Reply
  25. Fairweb
    22 February 2010 at 4:56 pm

    Thanks Paul :)

    Happy to read my plugin is helpful !

    Reply
  26. weremoose
    22 February 2010 at 6:02 pm

    it is very helpful actually! It saved me quite a lot of work… Thanks for everything!

    Reply
  27. Jon Donley
    26 February 2010 at 3:49 am

    I’m interested in following up with the question above, about the possibility of an update that would allow the image appear with the title beneath it.

    Reply
  28. Fairweb
    26 February 2010 at 6:43 am

    Hi Jon,

    This will be released very shortly now.

    Reply
  29. aadibou
    3 March 2010 at 5:51 pm

    Hi,

    I have some difficulty to install any version of you plugin…
    it’s seem so cute! It’s a shame! :(

    WordPress say to me:
    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /homez.41/deletere/www/areality/wp-content/plugins/fw-vimeo-videowall/fw-vimeo-videowall.class.php on line 8

    My version is good (2.9)
    Any idea?
    Thanks by advance!

    Reply
  30. Fairweb
    3 March 2010 at 6:46 pm

    For those who wanted to be able to display video titles under its thumbnail, you can now upgrade to version 1.3 and use argument “title” set to true to have the feature enabled.

    Reply
  31. Jan Eric Welch
    3 March 2010 at 10:27 pm

    I have the same problem as Aadibou using php4

    Reply
  32. Jan Eric Welch
    3 March 2010 at 10:38 pm

    Nevermind. I upgraded to PHP5 and it works like a dream.

    Reply
  33. Phillip Gibb
    8 March 2010 at 8:42 pm

    Hi,

    Love your plugin, it looks great – I use it in the footer of my blog.
    I just have have a problem closing the pop ups when playing the video – it does not seem to do anything.

    wordpress2.9.2
    php5 (of course)
    Firefox 3.6

    thanks

    Phill

    Reply
  34. Sherman
    10 March 2010 at 9:03 am

    thanks for the great plugin! It saved me TONS of work. Shoot me a link of where to contribute to your work!

    I’m having one problem: The widget isn’t accepting a “Title”; it keeps replacing it with “1″. I can’t find where the widget title is set in the code. Please help

    Reply
  35. Fairweb
    10 March 2010 at 9:11 am

    Phillip, I don’t have this problem and can’t reproduce it. It seems that your page is not W3C valid. Try and correct the xhtml errors and see if it works better.

    Reply
  36. Sherman
    10 March 2010 at 9:13 am

    I realize I forgot to link to a page demonstrating the issue: http://174.136.7.132/~durabot1/
    Thanks again!

    Reply
  37. Fairweb
    10 March 2010 at 9:21 am

    Sherman, thanks for asking for the donate link. Here it is https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=11221214

    Regarding your title issue, the widget is set in fw-vimeo-videowall-widget.class.php file line 79. I checked and could not reproduce this bug. There may be a conflict with another plugin. Please let me know if you find something or if you find it difficult to sort out.

    Reply
  38. Fairweb
    10 March 2010 at 9:26 am

    Sherman, I think I have an idea where the problem lies. It seems I have two fields with the same name (title) in my latest version as I added the opportunity to display video titles under thumbnails.

    I’ll try to sort it out as soon as possible.

    Reply
  39. Sherman
    10 March 2010 at 9:27 am

    Thanks for the quick response. I was wondering about that.
    I’ll hide the element for now and look forward to your update.

    Reply
  40. Fairweb
    10 March 2010 at 3:00 pm

    Sherman, new version is now available and the bug is fixed.

    Reply
  41. Sherman
    10 March 2010 at 5:17 pm

    Thank you for the Incredible service

    Reply
  42. paul
    10 March 2010 at 9:42 pm

    Hi Myriam

    I’m reporting this, in hope that there would be a fix fot it.

    I get this error

    Warning: array_slice() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /home/—my-host-name—/public_html/wp-content/plugins/fw-vimeo-videowall/fw-vimeo-videowall.class.php on line 235

    Most of the time, everything works fine though.
    So I suppose there is nothing wrong with other plugins and
    the compatiblity of hosting server is not the issue here.

    I was wondering if there is anyway to not display any error message
    - especially the one that shows full path to the WP folder like this.

    Please note that :
    this error only happens sometimes and I suspect that it’s because of
    vimeo server is slow sometimes, but this is outside the scope of my
    knowledge to say exactly.

    Reply
  43. Fairweb
    18 March 2010 at 10:18 am

    Hi Paul,
    It would be interesting to find out in which exact situation the error occurs.

    However, if you want a quick and dirty fix, ask your server not to display errors and warnings by adding php_flag display_errors off
    in your .htaccess file

    Reply
  44. fabo
    9 April 2010 at 3:23 pm

    GREAT PLUGIN!

    One minor request.. how can i add the video title under the thumbnail????

    Thanks!
    fabo

    Reply
  45. Fairweb
    9 April 2010 at 3:38 pm

    Hi Fabo,

    You can add video titles under thumbnails by adding the “title” argument and set it to true.

    You’ll find it on http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/fw-vimeo-videowall/installation/ under point number 7.

    Reply
  46. adam
    13 April 2010 at 9:10 pm

    Your plug in was working great for me. Now all of the sudden I keep getting this message:

    Warning: array_slice() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /home/mediaoh/public_html/wp-content/plugins/fw-vimeo-videowall/fw-vimeo-videowall.class.php on line 235

    What is the deal? I did not change anything…

    Reply
  47. Paul
    14 April 2010 at 12:12 pm

    Hi adam

    I had the same problem ( read my comment #43)

    Here is my theory.

    It’s not a plugin related issue.
    It happens only when the plugin can not retrieve data from Vimeo’s server.
    ( Vimeo’s server is slow, once in a while, this will happen )

    Or it could be our web hosting’s servers that cause the problem.

    You can turn off php error to remedy this
    ( google the “Turn off php error reporting messege” or anything similar )

    Reply
  48. Paul
    14 April 2010 at 12:16 pm

    Myriam already provided it in comment #44

    ^_^

    Reply
  50. Steve
    21 April 2010 at 11:25 pm

    Hello

    Great plugin, my only issue is that i have a vimeo plus account and when i choose privacy/who can see this video anything other then “anyone” wont work.

    The specific option i need is “hide this video from vimeo.com”

    This way i can upload videos i want to appear on my personal website using your plugin while keeping them invisible on vimeo.

    Please consider looking into this as this is my only complaint. It exactly what i was looking for except i have to make my video available to all of vimeo in order to use the plugin.

    Reply

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