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 3.0 – Released September 5th, 2010

  • Cleaned up some of the code
  • Moved to shortcodes
  • removed old and retired video players.
  • Update to include Youtube playlists
  • confirmed plugin works on 3.0.1

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

Full Changelog

48 thoughts on “Video Bracket Tags

  1. 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.

  2. 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

  3. 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?

  4. =)

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

  5. If you’re still maintaining this project, I would love to see an option to remove all extra markup i.e. just return the code without the wrapper div and without the link/blurb. I’m working on a video gallery and really only need the object code, so I modified your plugin:

    private static $XtraMarkup = false;

    Then anywhere extra markup gets added, I check the value of self::$XtraMarkup.

    If nothing else, something to consider for the next release. Thanks for the plugin!

  6. You can already achieve this by removing the styling and setting adding NOLINK.

    Something like this should work for you.

    [youtube id=9IY1hirzk8s NOLINK]

  7. Hi Bob,
    I just installed your youtube-plugin. The problem now is that I don’t find the ‘Settings’ > ‘Configure Videos’ Menu because my wordpress-blog ist german. I don’t find your options in the “Einstellungen” menu. It might be the same as settings.
    Regards Jürgen

    • Ah, yes. I was afraid of localization creeping up on me.

      Hopefully i will have time today to go through and add that in and remedy this. My apologies for that slip up.

  8. Thanks so much for your hard work!

    I’m trying to get the vimeo videos I just posted to quit autoplaying. The default has always been set to OFF and trying to add “NOAUTOPLAY” to the bracket just breaks the link. Any ideas?

    Thanks again.

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