Video Bracket Tags

This plugin provides the ability to embed a number of video objects into your WP pages. The formatting is based off of the familiar BBCode tagging, so anyone who regulars forums these days will already be comfortable with their usage.

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This plugin provides the ability to embed a number of video objects into your WP pages. The formatting is based off of the familiar BBCode tagging, so anyone who regulars forums these days will already be comfortable with their usage.

The current supported formats are:

Youtube, Youtube Custom Player, College Humor, Google, Vimeo, Veoh, LiveLeak, Blip.tv, Revver, Daily Motion, MySpace, Hulu, Yahoo

The tags accept a number of parameters. Justification, Width, Aspect Ratio and a text Blurb are all editable on a per tag basis.
[youtube id="gEzm4qMRC54" JUST="CENTER" SIZE="340" RATIO="16:9" BLURB="This is my test blurb" AUTOPLAY="20"]
to create…

Ordering of these parameters does not matter, and no, its not case sensitive.

New Features

  • Options Menu has a new entry to control styling. Raw CSS is available to be tweaked on a site wide basis
  • Added two new providers – MySpace Video and Daily Motion.
  • Autoplay is now fully functional on Vimeo, Google and LiveLeak as well as Youtube Videos.
  • Corrected a linking issue for Veoh and Liveleak
  • Deprecated Float Keyword

Currently Supported Parameters

  • FLOAT – Left Justification
  • LEFT – Left Justification
  • RIGHT – Right Justification
  • NOLINK – Do not include video origin link
  • LINK – Force Inclusion of video origin link
  • Ratio – Accepted Ratios are – 16:9 16:10 1:1 221:100 5:4 – All other provided values are set to 4:3 (the most common video ratio)
  • Numerical Values – If you provide any numerical values you are setting the width of your video.
  • Alphanumeric Values – When you post your video you may want to change the text value from the default to something descriptive or to caption something in the video.

Selected video players only

  • AUTOPLAY – Autoplay video when loaded
  • NOAUTOPLAY – Don’t autoplay video when loaded – if you have autoplay defaulted to on.

Change Log

Version 2.4.1

  • Tested against Wordpress v 2.7

Version 2.4.0

  • Added Yahoo and CNN video embedding support
  • Updated Screenshot
  • Added Screenshot page to WP site listing

Version 2.3.0

  • Added Hulu to player listing (No Excerpt b/c links are too complex currently)
  • Added BrightCove Channel Player to player listing (Requires Approval of channel owner)

Version 2.2.1

  • Corrected Video caption mixup.

Version 2.2.0

  • Add CSS Style div around embedded video.
  • Add Autoplay to all video formats where applicable {Vimeo, Google, LiveLeak, Youtube}
  • Add Myspace, DailyMotion video formats
  • Corrected Linking Issue – Veoh & LiveLeak
  • Deprecated Float Keyword

Version 2.1.2

  • Extended Keywords {NOLINK, LINK, NOAUTOPLAY, AUTOPLAY}
  • The colon is now acceptable for use in the text blurb
  • Updated the options menu to include autoplay as a sitewide option.

Version 2.1.1

  • Properly Added Options Menu
  • Further reworking of the code
  • moved all functions into class

Version 2.1

  • Further reworking of the code
  • Added Options Menu

Version 2.0.2

  • Added RevveR
  • Corrected some code (simplification)

Version 2.0.1

  • Added Blip.tv
  • Expanded on description to include information about the parameters
  • Added NOLINK parameter to be a per item option

Version 2.0

  • Complete Revision of Plugin from previous state
  • Added a number of parameters, consult description for further information
  • Added a different mechanism for parsing the Excerpt v. the Content of the post.
  • Brought everything together in a class (serves as a namespace for now)
  • Now is much easier to add further objects, including non video items.
42 Comments

42 Comments

  1. Hi-All your suggestions worked a few months ago, and I should’ve come back and said Thanks but didn’t. My apologies–VBT is wonderful and I use it all over my blog. Purely FYI, I added a new plugin today, Searchles, and it has some kind of conflict with VBT; as soon as it added it, all the VBT windows in the blog were turned into their text form ([youtube=xxxx]). Once I disabled Searchles, the windows came back. Any thoughts? The Searchles site is http://www.searchles.com
    Thanks for all your hard work!

  2. Thank you for the update. I am glad that your usage is now working.

    As for searchles killing it, the only thing i can think of is that either my plugin or theirs is doing something wrong and breaking the usage of other plugins. I am pretty sure that mine is compliant but may have misinterpreted something in my implementation. Ill look into this but i cant think of any reason to have it break.

  3. How about crackle.com?

  4. Ill have that update for you some time tomorrow i think, ill have to look at their options though.

  5. Crackle embedding is not as forward as these that I have chosen. I don’t think i am going to update it, although I’ve played with it. Its just not standardized enough to make it worth the while.

    Sorry.

  6. Hi Bob, could you please send me your email-address? I inserted youtubepl (playlist-integration) in your plugin and would like to send it to you.
    Rolf

  7. my contact info is on the about page, but here you are sir.

    bob.chatman@gmail.com

  8. Hi

    I noticed a comment about adding playlist functionality. I’d love that, it’s what I need to do in one of my sites where there’s only page space for one video window but a lot of videos to show. Is there any chance of it being implemented?

  9. =)

    The release will be later this week. I had some fixes to commit and the release will be completed. Sorry about the wait.

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