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Videographer Wordpress Theme. Start Your Own Video Blog

By Shane on April 28, 2008

Videographer Wordpress Theme

Video on the internet is huge. And it’s only getting bigger. So I thought I’d put together a Wordpress theme to take advantage of that. It’s a great way to build content-rich niche sites, and use the power of YouTube at the same time.

Videographer Features

  1. Most bloggers know that you can easily embed YouTube videos in your blog. What’s not as well known is YouTube creates thumbnails for all the videos uploaded to them that you can also embed. That makes it really easy for us to create an index of clickable thumbnail pics.
  2. I’ve put together a modification to Wordpresses get_excerpt in functions.php that tightens it up nicely. 
  3. Videographer also has some ad blocks (ad_header.php, ad_sidebar.php, and ad_singlepage.php) that allow you to easily throw in your ad code.
  4. The sidebar shows “Latest Videos” except on the single post page where it shows “Related Videos” or the most recent videos in the same category as the video you’re viewing. Which is good because most people will find your video blog through those single post pages so you want to show them related content.

Setting up Videographer

  1. Just upload it like any other Wordpress theme. NOTE however, that this theme is meant for a NEW blog, not a blog with existing content. The theme is specifically designed for creating a video blog.
  2. You need Jens Tornell’s WP YouTube plugin. Upload and activate the plugin. In your Wordpress admin panel, go to Manage > YouTube Profiles. Create a profile with the Tag Name “video” and set the video width to “500″ and the height to “418″. Check “Valid XHTML” and save your profile.
  3. I’d also suggest getting Lester Chan’s WP PostRatings plugin as it allows users to rate your videos and adds a lot to the site. The code to run this plugin is already in Videographer.
  4. Create a page called “Archives” (post slug: archives) and apply the XHTML Sitemap template to the page. This will give the top navigation link “Categories:” a destination. 

Creating Posts in Videographer

Just as you would create any Wordpress post except you also have to add the YouTube video ID. To do that:

  • Go to YouTube and find your video. The web url of your video will be something like hxxp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F9RJSPnf8A&feature=related
  • The part you want is after the “v=” and before the first “&” symbol, which here is: _F9RJSPnf8A
  • Copy that video ID and paste it into the “Value” box of your post’s Custom Fields section. Call the Key “vids” and save your Custom Field
  • Then finish writing and save your post. It’s pretty much that simple.

Download Videographer

Download Videographer and give it a spin. And don’t forget to get the plugins mentioned above. You can also check out my Videographer test site.

Videographer Support

None. Zip, zilch, nada. Nothing. Sorry about that, but I just don’t have the time so you’re pretty much on your own. If you need help …

  • With html, php, or wordpress basics … Tubetorial is an excellent site for beginners.
  • I put up a basic powerpoint video on my test site that goes through the basic setup.
  • Post your questions or comments here. If you’ve got a problem, maybe I (or hopefully someone smarter than me) can find an answer for you. If you find a bug, leave a comment and I’ll try to address it as well.

Enjoy it. And let me know about your sites so I can check them out.

 

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127 Comments

  1. Anthony

    April 29th, 2008 at 4:09 pm

    1

    Awesome Shane, awesome! Will have to write something up about it.

  2. Shane

    April 29th, 2008 at 4:54 pm

    2

    Hey Anthony,

    Thanks! Hope you get a chance to play around with it and rip through the code a bit. Love to get your feedback.

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  5. adel

    May 18th, 2008 at 3:17 am

    5

    Hi Shane
    Does this work for youtube only? what about metacafe or google videos

  6. Shane

    May 18th, 2008 at 5:06 am

    6

    Hi Adel,

    It only works for YouTube. It could be changed to work with Metacafe and Google Video as well … but, I don’t know if they provide thumbnail pics that can be embedded the way YouTube does.

    If they don’t, then a generic “this is a video” placecard could be inserted into the index/archive pages when these videos are used. That’s something I may take a look at doing one of these days in a subsequent version of videographer.

  7. Adel

    May 25th, 2008 at 7:10 am

    7

    Hi Shane
    The theme was working all good but all of a sudden the single page is now blank. I just see the description and no actual videos
    the only change ive done is the addition of google analytics code

  8. Shane

    May 25th, 2008 at 8:32 am

    8

    Hi Adel,

    I haven’t used GA much. I generally use WP stats which works fine with Videographer. Double check your html first. If you’re still having problems you might want to try using it with a plugin. Just Google “Wordpress Google Analytics” and you’ll find a few available.

  9. Adel

    May 25th, 2008 at 9:28 am

    9

    Ive disabled the google plugin and still the same. Funny it is still working on my test site at blog.ziloi

  10. Adel

    May 25th, 2008 at 9:51 am

    10

    oops sorry..my fault ..I did an import and forgot to create a new profile..Its all good now

  11. DigitalMads

    May 27th, 2008 at 4:19 am

    11

    This is a great theme and it’s easy to setup and easy to modify to ones own needs.

    The plugin “WP YouTube” has come in a version 2:

    http://www.jenst.se/2008/01/13/wp-youtube-2

    If you use this you must remember to use the tag “video” in the profile editor. Otherwise it won’t work with Videographer.

    /DM

  12. Shane

    May 27th, 2008 at 7:31 am

    12

    Adel,

    Glad you got it going. It always pays to doublecheck your code and setup. The silly little things are always such a big pain.

    Hey DM,

    Thanks. Glad you like the theme. Yes, you have to use the tag name “video” when you setup the WP YouTube plugin. The reason is, that’s the tag the theme is looking for to bring in all the video’s parameters. I coded it that way to make it easier to add videos with just the YouTube video ID and to build in a little room for future improvements.

    Complete setup instructions in the post above.

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  14. The 'sell photos online' Dude

    May 31st, 2008 at 4:12 am

    14

    Hi,

    It’s a fabulous idea and your instructions are great too. One thing though that held me up a little is this part, where you say:

    “apply the XHTML Sitemap template to the page. This will give the top navigation link “Categories:” a destination.”

    Can you explain this a little more? Do you mean add the XHTML sitemap plugin to my site? And then how do I apply it to my category?

    Thanks - just so I’m clear…

    Congratulations, it’s a job well done. :)

    Martin

  15. Shane

    May 31st, 2008 at 4:52 am

    15

    Hi Martin,

    The Videographer theme contains a file called xhtmlsitemap.php

    In Wordpress, click on “Write”, and then below that click on “Page”. You want to create a new page, not a post. Make the title of this page “Archives”.

    You don’t have to add any other text or anything. Just scroll down until you see a section called “Page Template”. Click it and then click the drop-down box there and you should see xhtmlsitemap as an option. Select that and publish the page.

    The template has all the code to create a list showing categories and latest video posts of your video blog. When you click on “Categories” in your site’s navigation bar it’ll take you to your archives page.

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  17. DigitalMads

    June 1st, 2008 at 5:14 am

    17

    Shane, the WP_LIST_CATS has been deprecated and should be replaced with WP_LIST_CATEGORIES.

  18. The 'sell photos online' Dude

    June 1st, 2008 at 5:53 am

    18

    Thanks I appreciate it. :)

    Any other blogs using this theme here that I can get some ‘look and feel’ ideas from? (Apart from YouTube itself).

    :)

    Martin

  19. Shane

    June 1st, 2008 at 8:35 am

    19

    Hi DM,

    I think I had some issues using List Cats - I believe there are different attributes available to each of those functions which is why I used List Categories. But I’ll revisit it when I do the next version of Videographer.

    Martin,

    I’ve seen a few video blogs created with Videographer but none that have been tweaked. Just do a Google search for “video sites” and surf around to different ones and you’ll get some good ideas.

  20. The 'sell photos online' Dude

    June 4th, 2008 at 11:11 am

    20

    Thanks, I appreciate it…

    Martin

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  23. Adam DesAutels

    June 24th, 2008 at 4:46 pm

    23

    I can’t get the thumbnails to be viable… Is there something I am missing?

  24. Adam DesAutels

    June 24th, 2008 at 5:21 pm

    24

    “Visible” not “Viable”… Sorry.

  25. Shane

    June 24th, 2008 at 5:28 pm

    25

    Adam,

    It’s all in the code. First read the instructions above carefully and make sure you’re setup and use of the theme is as outlined. Then, check any modifications (if any) that you made. Also take a look at your plugins - deactivate them one by one and see if that corrects the problem.

    It’s also a good idea to open up your site and click “page” > “view source” to make sure the the site is actually calling in the thumbnails from YouTube. Look at the source for my site ThisWickedLife.com to see how that should look.

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  27. znydz

    June 25th, 2008 at 1:05 pm

    27

    can I embed other video from megavideo, dailymotion etc instead of youtube?

  28. Shane

    June 26th, 2008 at 6:43 pm

    28

    Hey znydz,

    Currently, no. Videographer is only setup for YouTube Videos. In the future, I’ll be adding Google video and Metacafe support, and I’ll take a look at adding megavideo and dailymotion as well.

    Even with just YouTube, there’s an absolute ton of content available because it’s so large. And I’d imagine that many videos from other sites could also be found on YouTube.

  29. Laurel

    June 28th, 2008 at 7:05 pm

    29

    Can we still do a standard post without a video?

  30. Shane

    June 29th, 2008 at 2:56 am

    30

    Hi Laurel,

    The theme is built to bring in thumbnail pics from YouTube for every post. If you created a regular post, that image would be broken and it woudn’t look very good. I will build the ability to make non-video posts into the next version of Videographer though.

  31. John Raul Joven II

    July 4th, 2008 at 10:18 am

    31

    Wow, this theme suits for me. I just hope though in the future this theme will come with in-built video functionality (I mean to say there will be no need to install additional plugins) so it would be easier for new bloggers to install this one. Great stuff.

  32. Shane

    July 4th, 2008 at 4:01 pm

    32

    Hey John,

    Thanks. The next version will do away with the need for the YouTube plugin (out of necessity). It will still be setup to use the Postratings plugin though which is easy enough to install.

  33. Jonny

    July 4th, 2008 at 5:59 pm

    33

    Hey Shane, great theme. I’m looking forward to the next version! How long will you say it’ll take you?

    Keep up the great work,
    Jonny

  34. Shane

    July 4th, 2008 at 9:06 pm

    34

    Hi Jonny,

    Glad you like it. I’ve been pretty busy with other things but I’m always gathering ideas and feedback. So, no ETA right now but hopefully in the next month or two I’ll get to putting out version 2.

  35. mixedbrains

    July 7th, 2008 at 7:37 am

    35

    Looks Fun. faved and saved. will try it out thanks!

  36. sc

    July 8th, 2008 at 3:58 pm

    36

    This is a great feature, is there the possibility of this being expanded to be used for .mov files?

  37. Shane

    July 8th, 2008 at 7:50 pm

    37

    sc,

    That’s an interesting idea, but probably not. Video on the web is huge and growing. If you built a successful video site and were hosting your own videos, you’d need a massive amount of bandwidth.

    Big bandwidth costs money, and it’s still very difficult to monetize video to the point where a site like that can sustain itself. So by embedding the videos from big sites like YouTube, etc, that have the bandwidth needed, you’re building an immense amount of growth potential into your site without the bandwidth costs.

    I do think it’s a great idea to make your own videos, but rather than hosting them directly I’d suggest starting a YouTube account, uploading the videos there, and then embedding them in your site. That way, you also get exposure for your site as well. Especially if other sites embed some of your videos and you have a link to your site watermarked on the video.

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  39. Sam Deeks

    July 10th, 2008 at 1:51 pm

    39

    Shane, love it - it’s not quite what I’m looking for, but I’d like to stash it in case I do need it. Great idea the ‘how to video’.. excellent. And as for the flying squirrel Ironman video jeeeeeeezzzzz!

  40. Shane

    July 10th, 2008 at 2:07 pm

    40

    Hey Sam,

    Thanks. And yeah, that’s a crazy video - it’s definitely not a sport for the timid. I’ve gone paragliding and that’s pretty awesome. But it’s a walk in the park compared to what those guys are doing.

  41. areztdotcom

    July 11th, 2008 at 6:58 am

    41

    Hii…its nice to know this theme, and how we add flickrss in main page, not at sidebar, thx for your time :smile:

  42. Shane

    July 11th, 2008 at 3:03 pm

    42

    arezt,

    Not really sure about flikrss. Videographer wasn’t built for pics, just moving pics ;)

  43. Look Gee

    July 14th, 2008 at 3:11 am

    43

    Hi Shane,

    Any chance that a future version will allow us to post our own local flash videos? Youtube has a stupid 10 minute maximum which eliminates me from using more than half of my videos. Due to the nature of my upcoming site, bandwidth will not be an issue.

    Thanks

  44. Shane

    July 14th, 2008 at 3:36 am

    44

    Hi LG,

    See my reply to sc above … probably not. But if you need longer run times for your videos I’d suggest using Google Video rather than YouTube. Google Video allows longer videos and there will be support for that in the future.

  45. Mark Lopes

    July 25th, 2008 at 1:25 am

    45

    Shane, let me tell you one thing, this is one of the most professional themes for wordpress I have ever seen. It’s well built and it really looks great. The only thing missing for my personal use, is when I create regular posts, I’d like to incorporate picture thumbnails, instead of a video. When you release the update, please let me know, I’ll be in the front row to try the new version.

  46. Mark Lopes

    July 25th, 2008 at 1:29 am

    46

    By the way, any preview of the release of the new videographer version?

  47. Ravi

    July 25th, 2008 at 4:14 am

    47

    Hi, great theme, thx!

    wouldn´t it be cool, if it would work with the truveo search plugin? e.g. like this one? http://www.jamesmarquez.com/truveo-auto-search.html
    This would expand the Videos you can use to almost all other Videosites plus you can search for videos in your wordpress-admin and don´t have to “go” to the sites directly..

  48. Shane

    July 25th, 2008 at 5:18 pm

    48

    Hi Mark,

    That’s an interesting idea. I’ll look into it with the next version.

    Hey Ravi,

    Another interesting idea but “autoblogging” is not really what the theme is about. It’s tough to create a quality, original site with automatic functions gathering content. Iam going to expand the video sources available to embed in the next version though.

  49. Ravi

    July 26th, 2008 at 6:35 am

    49

    Hi Shane,

    oh no - I didn´t mean autoblogging - thats spam for me! I just meant an easier an wider way to choose videos to publish.

  50. yoken

    July 27th, 2008 at 3:23 pm

    50

    Hi Shane, it is a great theme with great support for uploading videos, I created a testing site with my sub-domain… by the way, do you provide any plugin that I can use with my favourite theme? also, I am looking for more support like metacafe video…

    This is Metacafe video link:
    http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1174140/awesome_science_experiment_magic_hole/

    Here is the thumbnail image link from my Metacafe video:
    “http://s1.mcstatic.com/thumb/1174140.jpg”

    all you need to do is replace the number, each video has the same number..

    I don’t know how to create front page thumbnail for my videos, here is my stupid way to do, please don’t laugh at me…

    [DISCRIPTION]

    By the way, this video was created by me…feel free lto eave your comments^^

    If you have new update, do let me know…

  51. Shane

    July 29th, 2008 at 2:09 pm

    51

    Hey Yoken,

    Metacafe support will be in the next version of Videographer. The video thumbnail functions are part of the theme layout (and pretty much have to be); it’s not a plugin you can add to other themes.

  52. Jai

    July 30th, 2008 at 1:41 pm

    52

    This is a great wordpress theme for videos and I love to add more features like adding videos from Yahoo, Metacafe, Dailymotion etc. waiting for next version.. very good work

  53. Mark Lopes

    July 30th, 2008 at 11:54 pm

    53

    Hi Shane, any prediction about the date of the release of the update?

  54. Shane

    August 1st, 2008 at 5:27 pm

    54

    Hey Mark,

    The next version is on hold for now. I’ve fooled around with adding support for more video sites and what I’ve found is that most sites (besides YouTube) make it extremely complicated if not impossible to embed both thumbnails and videos.

    I guess this ease of social interaction and networking is a good testament to YouTube’s success. Anyway, for now, the next version is on the far back burner as other priorities ensue.

  55. Mark Lopes

    August 4th, 2008 at 7:54 am

    55

    Ok Shane, thanks anyway. My main concern is the picture thumbnails, because our website/blog has many video files, but also text posts, that would be great with the pic thumbnail. Please let me know if there’s any way we can edit the theme, so this can be possible. Thanks in advance, Mark

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  58. Tarky7

    August 13th, 2008 at 5:04 pm

    58

    Hey Shane -

    Love the work you have done on the Video Theme of yours. I have run into a problem with the installation; All the YouTube Videos are starting to display an error http://sportgislax.com/

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function wpyoutube() in /home/sportsgi/public_html/sportgislax/wp-content/themes/Videographer/single.php on line 14

    I wonder if you could shed some light on my next steps correcting the problem.

    Aslo am looking orward to any future updates on this really great theme.

    Thanks

    Kit

  59. Shane

    August 13th, 2008 at 6:55 pm

    59

    Hey Tarky,

    Check the set-up instructions above. You need to have the WP-YouTube plugin installed. Make sure you “activate” it in your Wordpress control panel and set it up as per the instructions. Then everything should work just fine.

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    August 19th, 2008 at 11:19 pm

    60

    Hi Shane, is this an update or a translation? If you want I can translated to Portuguese, for all our friends in Portugal, Brasil and Africa.

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    62

    thx!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! im using it on my web u can visit! :D

  63. Paul

    August 23rd, 2008 at 11:55 pm

    63

    Shane:

    Thanks a lot for this great theme.

    1) Did you make any other theme as good as this one?

    2) I will like to use this theme for both video and regular posting. I will you can come up with work around for this soon.

  64. WAIL

    August 28th, 2008 at 10:31 am

    64

    Nice Job, I really like it!

  65. juan

    September 11th, 2008 at 4:21 pm

    65

    I have uploaded the plugin, created the profile with the “video tag” but i am getting this code:

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function wpyoutube() in /home/content/c/h/a/charlex186/html/YOUTUBE/wp-content/themes/Videographer/single.php on line 14

    I have also created the archive page and chosen the sitemap

    What im i doing wrong?

    By the way this is a great theme, i hope i can make it work

  66. Shane

    September 11th, 2008 at 9:33 pm

    66

    Hey Juan,

    Just checked out your site and see that you got it working … this error always happens when people forget to install or “activate” the youtube plugin.

    It’s part of the setup instructions above, but I guess people overlook it, just thinking it’s like any other Wordpress theme. I was thinking of coding the theme to do away with this plugin, but then changing things like “video player color” and “autoplay or not” would have to be changed manually in the code.

    It’s much more user friendly with the YouTube plugin … just gotta remember to install and activate it when you set up the theme! :D

  67. lankapo

    September 12th, 2008 at 5:06 am

    67

    hi shane,

    great job, you create a great theme.

    Keep up the good work. Can’t wait to see the next version.

    lankapo

  68. Tarky7

    September 12th, 2008 at 7:57 pm

    68

    Hey Shane,

    You are just awesome ! Thank so much fer that fix !

    Best

    Kit

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    September 14th, 2008 at 7:51 am

    69

    Shane:

    Very nice theme!

    thanks for create it!

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    Wow, this theme is fantastic! We’re using it at We Demand Videos which we just launched today. The site instantly looks professional. Thanks again Shane!

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    Hi Shane
    We’re using your theme at http://www.jeffdunhamvideo.com, but the google ads at the side bar only apear at the home page. Whenever you open a post, it doesn’t appear. We already tried to install the theme again, but the ads just don’t show on post pages. Can you tell us what we are doing wrong?

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    September 19th, 2008 at 3:18 am

    73

    Mark,

    I can see you’ve made some modifications to the theme … you’re gonna have to go through your code and find the error. It could be in the single.php page or it could be in header.php or sidebar.php … but it’s in there somewhere.

    I’d suggest a complete fresh install and then make the changes you want but check everything each step of the way to make sure it’s working properly if you can’t track down the error.

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  77. Rob

    September 24th, 2008 at 12:28 am

    77

    I just installed everything per your instructions above. Here’s the checklist:

    1. Installed Videographer WP theme in themes/Videographer
    2. Activated the theme
    3. Installed WP YouTube 0.9 plugin in plugins/wp-youtube
    4. Activated the WP YouTube plugin
    5. Went to Manage but DIDN’T find “YouTube Profiles”
    6. Went to Options and found “WP YouTube”. changed the options as noted in the instructions above, including giving Tag Name “video” and setting the video width to “500″ and the height to “418″. Checked “Valid XHTML”.
    7. Created a page called “Archives” (post slug: archives) and applied the XHTML Sitemap template to the page.
    8. Copied the video ID (cUTuU32wExE) and pasted it into the “Value” box of my post’s Custom Fields section. Called the Key “vids” and saved my Custom Field.
    9. Published the post.

    Still getting the error “Fatal error: Call to undefined function wpyoutube() in /usr1/webroot/wordpress/wp-content/themes/Videographer/single.php on line 14″

    What else can I do to try to fix this? I don’t see any function named wpyoutube() in any of the source files for your plugin. I’m running Wordpress MU 1.3

    Thanks.

  78. Germain Bracamontes

    September 25th, 2008 at 4:42 pm

    78

    Hi there, Thanks for an awesome theme. A few questions. ..
    1. I was wondering if you guys know a plugin or something to display “related videos”as thumbnails in the bottom or to the side of a single video post.
    2. Would I be able to switch all my content to another video theme if needed? (since videos are not embedded on posts, i’m curious about that)
    3. What about moving the 2 “related videos” links from bottom to the top of post (they are hard to see under the comment box)
    4. Is the Archives page considered a sitemap? (clicking on Categories)

    Thanks Again!

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  82. Barry

    September 30th, 2008 at 11:54 am

    82

    Hi Shane,

    I have some issues with getting the thumbnails to show?

    Any ideas what I need to do to fix it?

    KR,
    Barry.

  83. Barry

    September 30th, 2008 at 11:57 am

    83

    Just as an edit it’s missing part of the URL for the thumbs

    http://img.youtube.com/vi//2.jpg

    so has // where I feel the video id should be between. Thoughts?

  84. abas

    October 2nd, 2008 at 1:30 pm

    84

    hi thanks for this lovely theme, i installed and activated but i get this error on top of the page, i don’t know whether this error message from my host or the theme, please help.

    Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘/home/a8161118/public_html/wp-content/themes/Videographer/top_nav.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/a8161118/public_html/wp-content/themes/Videographer/header.php on line 38

  85. Shane

    October 2nd, 2008 at 5:02 pm

    85

    Rob,

    That error means the youtube plugin is not setup or activated. Go through the checklist again. But it could have to do with running MU - I don’t have that setup and didn’t test for it.

    Germain,

    No, probably not, go for it, sortof - but it’s not an xml sitemap (google wordpress sitemap plugin and you’ll find one)

    Barry,

    It looks like you are not embedding the video code into the custom field with the WPyoutube plugin. Go over the setup and “how-to” above or watch the video on my test site http://www.thiswickedlife.com

    abas,

    It looks like you have WP installed on a subdomain or in a folder. Videographer was built for WP install on root domain.

  86. Mike

    October 3rd, 2008 at 1:35 am

    86

    thanks, Ive been looking for one for a long time!

  87. Esteaban

    October 7th, 2008 at 6:25 pm

    87

    Shane,

    Same as Rob.. did every step as you said and the plugin is activated at the plugin page.. but still got the undefined function error.

    Thanks.

  88. Richard

    October 7th, 2008 at 9:12 pm

    88

    Hi Shane,

    Thanks for the theme. I have been searching the net for something exactly like your wonderful theme. Well here is my site,
    corpuschristibay.com not fully finshed but it works. Thank you again Richard.

    CorpusChristiBay.com Happy fishing : )

    P.S. keep up the great work.

  89. LinQQed

    October 8th, 2008 at 12:19 pm

    89

    I started a site called LinQQed.com where I will be posting my favorite videos. Thanks to this theme I have saved hours of work. Thank you so much!

  90. Richard

    October 9th, 2008 at 12:35 am

    90

    Hi shane
    I’m having problem withe the extention on the page.
    I get this ( http://corpuschristiskatepark.com/?p=93 ) in stead of
    http://corpuschristiskatepark.com/Homebase5boroHalloweenskatejam
    what i’m I doing wrong. I created the page archives. The archives gets a 404 not found

    Thanks Richard
    I made it work other my other site : (

  91. Shane

    October 9th, 2008 at 1:38 am

    91

    Mike, thanks!

    Esteaban, must be a similar problem. Can’t see your site, so I can’t provide any real feedback.

    Richard, Thanks … and I see the page urls are working now … it’s easy to forget one little step here or there during setup. Glad you got it figured out.

    LinQQed, glad you like the theme. Your welcome!

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  93. Star

    October 21st, 2008 at 8:53 am

    93

    Great theme,

    I used this theme in my video website

    Thanks a lot

  94. Phillip

    October 23rd, 2008 at 2:58 am

    94

    Hey Shane,
    Thanks for the great theme. Got it up and working straight away with your thorough instructions. I’m a noob and would appreciate any resources to learn a bit more about theme editing. In particular, I’d love to learn how to modify the header in Videographer and how to insert the Adsense code. Thanks and looking forward to the new release. Cheers.

  95. Shane

    October 24th, 2008 at 12:04 am

    95

    Hey Phillip,

    Glad you liked the theme. You can copy/paste your AdSense code into ad_header.php, ad_sidebar.php, and ad_singlepage.php. Just replace everything on those pages with your AdSense code … but be sure you use the right size for each space (each page tells you what size) then upload them to your server.

    Also, tubetorial.com has a great video series on basic html which can help learn about modding themes.

  96. chat

    October 30th, 2008 at 8:15 pm

    96

    Thanks

  97. widi

    November 4th, 2008 at 10:39 am

    97

    Hi Shane,

    Thanks for your themes, it’s makes me surprise. thanks again.

  98. muriel

    November 7th, 2008 at 8:28 pm

    98

    Awesome theme!

    One question: Is this theme widgetized?

  99. Shane

    November 8th, 2008 at 3:39 am

    99

    Hi Muriel,

    You can add widgets to sidebar 2 and sidebar 3. I haven’t tested many, so I’m not sure how all of them will work, but throw a few in there and see how they look.

  100. Daniel Hunt

    November 9th, 2008 at 7:04 pm

    100

    Shane

    This is an excellent theme, plan to use it for this site I’m building…

    One suggestion, would be nice if menus could be added to give more versatility to the theme, can still use categories for things too..just a thought..

    Thanks for this great theme

  101. Shane

    November 10th, 2008 at 4:17 pm

    101

    Hi Daniel,

    There’s a lot that could be done with the theme. I decided to keep it simple because the key idea behind it is to show how you can create a dedicated video blog using YouTube videos and thumbnails.

    I’ve seen some great sites put together with Videographer; for example a music video site, with categories like ’70s, ’80s, ’90s, etc. Some people have made modifications to the theme to add things to it here and there or change the layout a bit, which I’m certainly fine with.

    I’m not sure if I’ll do many changes to it in the future, but it’s a great little theme to play with if you want to try your hand at theme design and make some changes to it yourself.

  102. M. Howe

    November 12th, 2008 at 1:20 am

    102

    First off, great theme! I really appreciate you sharing this. I have tweaked it a bit, so I could add an image to the header. Before I even did that, for some reason in Internet Explorer the single post pages are showing a huge space above the videos. When I look at the page source it shows two video codes (one as vid and the other as ). Any idea why this is occurring? Despite the double video object codes, it shows fine in Firefox. If it helps explain things I had to install both wp-youtube plugin versions to get it to work, though this might be normal.
    I hope you can help–I really want to move forward with this theme.

  103. Shane

    November 15th, 2008 at 4:33 am

    103

    Hi M,

    It looks like you added the video into your post body (with your text description). You don’t need to do that, when you put the video ID into the the custom field, it takes care of the video and the thumbnail.

    The other reason might be that you have 2 instances of the YouTube plugin installed. You definitely should only have one version running. Check out the install/uninstall guidelines or help section on the plugin’s homepage.

  104. Doug

    November 16th, 2008 at 6:11 pm

    104

    Great wp Shane. I want to make a site like CORPUSCHRISTIBAY.COM This guy / or gal really did a great job with your video theme.

  105. Shane

    November 16th, 2008 at 9:37 pm

    105

    Hi Doug,

    Thanks. I’ve seen a few great sites put together with the Videographer theme. The best ones focus on a specific niche like the one you mentioned … it makes them a great resource on the topic which is what people like. It’s also what the search engines like.

  106. iumi

    November 17th, 2008 at 3:15 am

    106

    Hi Shane. Would you take a quick look at my site and tell me what I’m doing wrong?
    I got a code from another user of your theme regarding adding an image on the header.
    It makes my “adsense header” go below it. I copied and pasted this code (without spaces before and after )

    I tried changing the width and height but still no luck.
    http://livetvbloopers.com

    Thanks again!

  107. iumi

    November 17th, 2008 at 3:22 am

    107

    Oops, i guess the code didn’t show up on here. I’ll try one more time..

    - div id=”header” -
    - div class=”header” - a href=”http://www.myurl.com” rel=”nofollow” - - img src=”http://www.myurl.com/wp-admin/images/mypic.png” alt=”my site videos” height=”80″ width=”350″/

  108. Shane

    November 17th, 2008 at 3:42 am

    108

    Hi iumi,

    It looks like you deleted a [/div] tag after the header div. Insert it (replace [] with <>) before the adheader opening div and you should be fine. Without that closing tag (with the /), your adheader and header are in the same div and both are floated to the left.

  109. scott weiss

    November 18th, 2008 at 11:50 am

    109

    Hey Shane, can you tell me how I can edit my logo?

    Thanks,

    Scott

  110. Shane

    November 18th, 2008 at 5:45 pm

    110

    Hi Scott,

    To put up an image logo on Videographer, go into header.php, and change this code:

    [div id="header"]
    [div class="header"][a href="[?php bloginfo('url'); ?]/”][?php bloginfo('name'); ?][/a][/div]
    [div class="description"][?php bloginfo('description'); ?][/div]
    [/div]

    To this, (putting your logo in the theme’s images folder and calling it logo.jpg):

    [div id="header"]
    [a href="http://www.yoursite.com"][img src="[?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?]/images/logo.jpg” style=”border:0″ /][/a]
    [/div]

    And of course, change all the [ ] to <>. And “yoursite.com” would be your homepage. The header div is 100px by 350px in size, so as long as your header is within that size, you shouldn’t have any problems.

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  113. Rogelio

    November 22nd, 2008 at 12:51 am

    113

    Great Theme!
    How many videos can I add to a post?. One or more?.
    Thanks

  114. Shane

    November 22nd, 2008 at 3:15 pm

    114

    Hi Rogelio,

    One video per post. Videographer is a dedicated video theme so instead of adding videos like you would in the post content, you add them in the custom field of the post. Then Videographer pulls in the video on the single page and the thumbnail on the index pages.

  115. Aidan

    November 23rd, 2008 at 1:43 am

    115

    I love this theme, I have been a video blogger for nearly two years now, and a written blogger for 7 years. I think it is time to try and merge them to the best of wordpress abilities.

    Is there a way to change this theme so it can easily switch between written and video blog entries? Even find a way to have a “default image” show up for a written entry instead of the thumbnail that shows when you do a video blog entry?

    This would be perfect and exactly what I need in my theme…

  116. Gio

    November 23rd, 2008 at 4:03 pm

    116

    quick question.. The site im building won’t be in English. Is there a way to change the language? Example: Search bar text, “Categories” “Older videos” “Subscribe to RSS” “Pages” Comments” etc etc

    Thanks!

  117. Shane

    November 23rd, 2008 at 11:20 pm

    117

    Hi Aiden,

    After blogging that long, I’m sure you’ve picked up a little coding ability along the way. You could modify single.php to include an if else statement that basically says: if the custom field != ” (does not equal nothing), then include the embed video code, else skip past it. You could do the same with the thumbnail pics on index.php to include a default image if there is no video.

    This is not a feature I added because it’s meant to be a dedicated video theme rather than a regular “all-around” theme.

    Hey Gio,

    You have to go through the theme files and find all the instances in English and change them to the language you want. A lot of those tags in sidebar.php are enclosed between H2 heading tags so they shouldn’t be too hard to find.

  118. Aidan

    November 24th, 2008 at 2:48 am

    118

    Thanks a bunch Shane - I will let you know when I’m done…

  119. mik

    November 27th, 2008 at 9:26 pm

    119

    Hi Shane, thanks for all! Simple but perfect and theme for his goal.
    But I did an error, somewhere, trying to change my logo in header.
    I followed your comment to Scott, but my ad goes down. (http://www.videolist.it)
    Can you help me?
    Thank you very much.
    mik

  120. Shane

    November 27th, 2008 at 10:09 pm

    120

    Hi Mik,

    Oops, I left something out of that code. Here’s what it should look like to add a header image:

    [div id="header"]
    [div class="header"][a href="http://www.yoursite.com"][img src="[?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?]/images/logo.jpg” style=”border:0″ /][/a]
    [/div]
    [/div]

    Of course, change [] to <>.

    There’s a div within a div because in the text logo version we’re wrapping two pieces of code (the title and the tagline). You have to have both those divs to put in an image header as well or else change the stylesheet.

  121. mik

    November 28th, 2008 at 1:26 pm

    121

    Great Shane! Now it works!
    Thanks a lot!
    mik

  122. Elijah

    November 30th, 2008 at 12:31 am

    122

    Hi Shane,

    Thanks for videographer! I added featured-contents gallery to the theme. However there seems to have an error “type mismatch” when i viewed it using IE7. Sometimes the sidebar went right to the bottom below the posts.

  123. Shane

    November 30th, 2008 at 6:50 am

    123

    Elijah,

    Looked at your site with ie7 and it was fine. If the sidebar goes below the posts (in any theme) it’s because you’ve put a pic, video, widget, or something that’s too wide to fit in the content or the sidebar (whichever section it’s in - same result with the sidebar dropping down).

  124. Elijah

    November 30th, 2008 at 9:21 am

    124

    Hi Shane,

    Thanks for your fast reply! Ok, I will reduce the width of the feature-contents gallery to see if it helps.

  125. Tim

    November 30th, 2008 at 5:47 pm

    125

    Shane

    Love the theme! Are the comments supposed to auto generate into the post and thumbnail or do I need to cut and paste?

    http://homes.homesearchtv.com

    Thanks again

    Tim

  126. Shane

    November 30th, 2008 at 10:11 pm

    126

    Tim,

    Comments only show on the single page (as with all themes). Your home page (index.php) automatically brings in an excerpt of your post writeup as a summary along with the thumbnail image.

  127. Nuraishah888

    December 3rd, 2008 at 9:01 am

    127

    This theme is great, i love it…i hope you creat the next verision for video theme.

    http://www.videoclips2u.com


 

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