Videos are YouTube videos identified by Video ID.
Introduction
YouTube Showcase is a powerful but simple-to-use YouTube video gallery plugin with responsive frontend.
YouTube Showcase is a powerful but simple-to-use YouTube video gallery plugin with responsive frontend.
The following is the definition(s) of the concept(s) covered in the context of YouTube Showcase app:
Videos are YouTube videos identified by Video ID.
It is very simple to find your YouTube video ID. First, go to the YouTube webpage. Look at the URL of that page, and at the end of it, you should see a combination of numbers and letters after an equal sign (=). This is the code you need to enter into the video key field.
This extension is included in the pro edition.
EMD Advanced Filters and Columns Extension for YouTube Showcase Community edition helps you:
Using YouTube Showcase, you can create, modify, delete, and search video records, associated taxonomies, or relationships.
To create video records in the admin area:
Videos can be modified by clicking on the "Edit" link under the video title in the video list page in the admin area. Make any necessary changes and then click Publish.
In YouTube Showcase, users are only allowed to search videos they have access to. Users who have access to videos can search using the filter system in the video admin area.
To schedule Videos for publication on a future time or date in the admin area:
To create a password protected video in the admin area:
Only an Administrator and users with "publish" right can change the password set for your video or modify visibility setting by clicking the "Visibility: Edit" link again.
When video content is password protected, video title displays the text "Protected: " before the video Title and the content prints a password form with this text: "This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:".
If multiple videos have the same password, one will only have to enter the required password once. Only one password is tracked at a time so if you visit two different videos with two different password, you must re-enter the video password to access content. WordPress saves passwords for maximum 10 days. After this period expires, one must reenter the password again to view the protected content.
Videos can be privately published to remove them from video lists and feeds.
To create a private video in the admin area:
Only an Administrator and users with "publish" right for the video can change visibility setting by clicking the "Visibility: Edit" link again.
To preview video content press the "Preview" button - a button directly above the “publish” button - in the publish box before officially publishing or sending for review.
To create a draft video in the admin area:
Once the video is published the user who created the video is assigned as the video author. Video authors can view and edit the video. One can change the video author from the author box. The author box drop down is limited to the users who have video "publish" right.
Category can be set by typing the desired option in the empty text field and clicking "Add" button in "Categories" box and updating/saving the video. Setting a value for Category is optional. Category is also organized hierarchically. Categories can have multiple descendants and a single parent so that you may set up a hierarchy within the Category structure
Categories do not have preset values.
Tag can be set by typing the desired option in the empty text field and clicking "Add" button in "Tags" box and updating/saving the video. Setting a value for Tag is optional. Tag is also organized hierarchically. Tags can have multiple descendants and a single parent so that you may set up a hierarchy within the Tag structure
Tags do not have preset values.
Displaying Video archives can be done by creating a link in the Appearance Menus Screen in the admin area.
Alternatively, if you'd like to display a specific Video, you can select the link from Video metabox and add it to your menu. If you don't see Video metabox, check the Screen Options to ensure it is set to display.
To create a custom link for Video archives:
In YouTube Showcase, Videos are locked during editing, preventing other users from accessing and modifying the Video.
If a user clicks to edit one of the Video records that's currently locked they are presented with three options in a pop-up dialog:
The user that has been locked out receives the following dialog, and is no longer able to edit the Video. It can take up to 15 seconds for the current Video editor to be notified that another user has taken over.
Widgets provide a simple and easy-to-use way of displaying content and features on your sidebars or dashboard.
Sidebar widgets can be added, removed, and rearranged on the WordPress Administration Appearance > Widgets panel. Dashboard widgets can be enabled or disabled using Screen Options tab in your app dashboard page. All widgets have drag-and-drop functionality.
The following sections list the YouTube Showcase widgets:
Featured Videos is an entity sidebar widget. It shows latest 5 published video records without any page navigation links.
Recent Videos is an entity sidebar widget. It shows latest 5 published video records without any page navigation links.
Standard views display a single type of content in a custom format and can be used in place of archive views. Administrators can display standard views using their shortcodes by choosing the name of the view you want to display from the WPAS component list after clicking on the WPAS toolbar button on any page.
The following sections list the YouTube Showcase standard views available:
"Video Grid Gallery" is a standard view which displays 16 Video records per page with a post status of publish in descending order by date. Page navigation is enabled. If you choose to install setup pages during plugin activation, a WordPress page is created with a title of "Video Grid Gallery". You can visit this page to access the view. To display it in another page or post, use [video_grid]
shortcode or select the view name from the WPAS component list after clicking on the WPAS toolbar button.
Integration views combine interrelated views of your content in one page to provide a summary or to highlight essential information.
The following sections list the YouTube Showcase integration views:
"Video Gallery" is a combo report. If you choose to install setup pages during plugin activation, a WordPress page is created with a title of "Video Gallery". You can visit this page to access the view. To display it in another page or post, use [video_gallery]
shortcode or select the view name from the WPAS component list after clicking on the WPAS toolbar button.
The following table shows the capabilities and the access roles available in YouTube Showcase app. "Red" color means the users who belong to the corresponding role do not have the capability. "Green" color means the users who belong to the corresponding role have the capability.
CAPABILITY | Administrator | Editor | Author | Contributor | Subscriber |
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All Entities are open to public. |
CAPABILITY | Administrator | Editor | Author | Contributor | Subscriber |
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All Taxonomies are open to public. |
CAPABILITY | Administrator | Editor | Author | Contributor | Subscriber |
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All Relationships are open to public. |
CAPABILITY | Administrator | Editor | Author | Contributor | Subscriber |
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All Widgets are open to public. |
CAPABILITY | Administrator | Editor | Author | Contributor | Subscriber |
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All Forms are open to public. |
CAPABILITY | Administrator | Editor | Author | Contributor | Subscriber |
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All Views are open to public. |
Plugins are managed from the Plugins screen in the Administration Screens of your WordPress site. All Plugins listed on this screen are found in your wp-content/plugins directory. Each Plugin has a description in its header section of what it does, an author and website to refer to, and a version number. Find YouTube Showcase from the list.
To install your YouTube Showcase Plugin using the built-in plugin installer:
Replace VERSION in instructions with the version number of YouTube Showcase you want to install. After the activation, the YouTube Showcase plugin setup may display notification asking if you if you'd like to install setup pages or skip setup page installation, click the appropriate button.
To uninstall your YouTube Showcase Plugin using the built-in plugin installer:
WordPress auto-update system displays notification in the Admin Bar and also on the plugins page when new version of the YouTube Showcase is available.
To install the new version, simply hit the "Update automatically" button. WordPress will automatically download the new package, extract it and replace the old files. No FTP, removing old files, and uploading is required.
We offer different plugin editions to better match your needs. If you purchased a different edition of YouTube Showcase, follow the steps below to upgrade your plugin:
Upgrading YouTube Showcase Community edition does not have any impact on your existing data but it is always a good idea to back up your WordPress database as a rule of thumb before any changes.
YouTube Showcase Community edition is configured to work with many plugin extensions. Most plugin extensions work regardless of the edition unless specified specifically in the plugin page.
if you purchased a plugin extension, follow the instructions in WordPress Codex to install and activate your plugin extension like any other WordPress plugin.
If your extension comes with a license key, you must save and activate your license key to get software updates and support.
Administrators can set global options available for YouTube Showcase. After logging in as administrator, click Settings page under Video Settings menu. Modify the ones you want to be changed and click Save button to make changes active. The following lists the available options:
The default entity base slug can be changed within entity tab of settings page in Video Settings menu. After you update, make sure to refresh your site's Permalinks under Settings. You can only change base slug if post name based permalink structure is selected.
For the most part, YouTube Showcase templates will integrate nicely with most WordPress themes. However you may run into issues when the default YouTube Showcase content wrappers do not match your chosen theme or your theme's CSS rules overwrite YouTube Showcase CSS rules.
Theme related issues manifest themselves by;
Theme related issues can potentially affect all single, taxonomy, archive and shortcode pages because YouTube Showcase uses templates of its own to display these pages and it’s impossible for eMDPlugins to know exactly what markup or CSS rules your theme uses.
There are three methods to resolve theme related issues;
If the issue can not be resolved through simply modifying the header and footer templates, you need to modify your theme's page.php.
Please note that this approach eliminates Your ability:
from Video Settings, settings page.
To set up this template page:
Next you need to find the loop (see The_Loop). The loop usually starts with a:
<?php if ( have_posts() ) :
and usually ends with:
<?php endif; ?>
This varies between themes. Once you have found it, delete it. In its place, put:
<?php youtube_showcase_content(); ?>
You add custom CSS rules in the Custom CSS field of Tools tab under Video Settings menu, settings page to overwrite your theme's default CSS. The custom css rules added in the settings are not deleted when your plugin gets updated.
You can learn CSS language by completing the tutorials at w3schools.com
YouTube Showcase can be translated into any language by editing youtube-showcase-emd-plugins.pot and youtube-showcase.pot files.
Follow the steps below to fully translate YouTube Showcase into the desired language:
Screen Options is displayed as a hanging tab under the toolbar. Click on the Screen Options tab to expand the options available for a particular Screen, check (or uncheck) the desired options, then click the Screen Options hanging tab to collapse the Screen Options. Each screen may have a different set of Screen Options.
Edit page screen options allow the user to decide the edit boxes ,such as taxonomies, relationships or specific boxes such as authors, are presented in the edit area. You can turn on and off the ones that are not needed for a particular edit session.
List page screen options allow users to set the number of records displayed in the list table.
Shortcodes are small blocks of reusable code that can be inserted in a page to generate dynamic and often complex functionality. There is no limit in number of shortcodes that can be created and used. Multiple shortcodes can be used in the same page.
The following shortcode creates a Video Grid Gallery page with videos of Categories category.
[video_grid filter="tax::category::is::YOUR TAXONOMY VALUE;"]
The following shortcode creates a Video Grid Gallery page with videos of Categories category.
[video_grid filter="attr::blt_title::is::YOUR ATTRIBUTE VALUE;"]
The following shortcode creates a Video Grid Gallery page with videos of Categories category where Title is blt_title .
[video_grid filter="attr::blt_title::is::YOUR ATTRIBUTE VALUE;tax::category::is::YOUR TAXONOMY VALUE;"]
The following shortcode creates a Video Grid Gallery page with the published videos of Categories category where Title is blt_title in descending order by comment count, displaying 15 videos with no pagination.
[video_grid filter="attr::blt_title::is::YOUR ATTRIBUTE VALUE;tax::category::is::YOUR TAXONOMY VALUE;misc::post_status::is::publish;misc::order::is::DESC;misc::posts_per_page::is::15;misc::has_pages::is::false;misc::orderby::is::comment_count;"]
Note: Replace YOUR ATTRIBUTE VALUE with the value stored for that attribute and YOUR TAXONOMY VALUE with the slug of the corresponding taxonomy value.
YouTube Showcase offers extensive customization options from plugin settings, settings page. The following customizations can be done without changing your theme's template files:
If your customization requirements are more complex and can not be resolved through the list of options provided above, you need to implement advanced customization techniques.
YouTube Showcase advanced customization can be done on 3 different areas;
Plugin customization can be implemented by using 4 different methods:
If you'd like to modify the functionality, you need to modify the plugin design (sold separately) using WP App Studio ProDev API access (sold separately and monthly development plans are available).
If you like to customize how HTML elements are to be displayed on screen, you can add custom CSS rules with higher specificity to your theme's style.css file.
If you'd like to customize layouts of YouTube Showcase, Please follow the steps below:
The layout files you added in the "emd_templates" has always precedence over the plugin's layout files. If the customized files get deleted, the layouts which came with your plugin are displayed. We recommend that you create a child theme if you'd like to minimize the risk of accidental deleting of the "emd_templates" directory because of theme updates.
The following layout file types can be customized:
YouTube Showcase labels and messages can be customized to better match your needs through language files. The customization is very similar to localization but recommended for US English users only. If your language is different than US English, you should localize instead of customize. The customization can be done for the strings included in youtube-showcase-emd-plugins.pot and youtube-showcase.pot files.
The following steps cover the string customization of labels and messages.
Follow the steps below to fully customize YouTube Showcase labels and messages:
All customization can be done by yourself or emarketdesign.com. Open a support ticket, if you prefer us to do the customization for you.
Below is the list of attribute and taxonomy definitions.
Global attributes can be set in the Settings page, Global tab under Video Settings menu.
Videos are YouTube videos identified by Video ID.
The unique 11 digit alphanumeric video key found on the YouTube video. For example; in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVgWZd7oGOk. uVgWZd7oGOk is the video id.
Video Key is a required field. Being a unique identifier, it uniquely distinguishes each instance of Video entity. Video Key is filterable in the admin area. Video Key does not have a default value.Sets the resolution of video thumbnail image. The image size for each option;
Medium - 320 x 180, High - 480x360, Standard - 640 x 480, Max -1280 x 720