Videographer WordPress Theme. Start Your Own Video Blog
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
- 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.
- I’ve put together a modification to WordPresses get_excerpt in functions.php that tightens it up nicely.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
239 Comments
Anthony
April 29th, 2008
at 4:09 pm
Awesome Shane, awesome! Will have to write something up about it.
Shane
April 29th, 2008
at 4:54 pm
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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adel
May 18th, 2008
at 3:17 am
Hi Shane
Does this work for youtube only? what about metacafe or google videos
Shane
May 18th, 2008
at 5:06 am
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.
Adel
May 25th, 2008
at 7:10 am
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
Shane
May 25th, 2008
at 8:32 am
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.
Adel
May 25th, 2008
at 9:28 am
Ive disabled the google plugin and still the same. Funny it is still working on my test site at blog.ziloi
Adel
May 25th, 2008
at 9:51 am
oops sorry..my fault ..I did an import and forgot to create a new profile..Its all good now
DigitalMads
May 27th, 2008
at 4:19 am
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
Shane
May 27th, 2008
at 7:31 am
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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The 'sell photos online' Dude
May 31st, 2008
at 4:12 am
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
Shane
May 31st, 2008
at 4:52 am
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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DigitalMads
June 1st, 2008
at 5:14 am
Shane, the WP_LIST_CATS has been deprecated and should be replaced with WP_LIST_CATEGORIES.
The 'sell photos online' Dude
June 1st, 2008
at 5:53 am
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
Shane
June 1st, 2008
at 8:35 am
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.
The 'sell photos online' Dude
June 4th, 2008
at 11:11 am
Thanks, I appreciate it…
Martin
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Adam DesAutels
June 24th, 2008
at 4:46 pm
I can’t get the thumbnails to be viable… Is there something I am missing?
Adam DesAutels
June 24th, 2008
at 5:21 pm
“Visible” not “Viable”… Sorry.
Shane
June 24th, 2008
at 5:28 pm
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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znydz
June 25th, 2008
at 1:05 pm
can I embed other video from megavideo, dailymotion etc instead of youtube?
Shane
June 26th, 2008
at 6:43 pm
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.
Laurel
June 28th, 2008
at 7:05 pm
Can we still do a standard post without a video?
Shane
June 29th, 2008
at 2:56 am
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.
John Raul Joven II
July 4th, 2008
at 10:18 am
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.
Shane
July 4th, 2008
at 4:01 pm
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.
Jonny
July 4th, 2008
at 5:59 pm
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
Shane
July 4th, 2008
at 9:06 pm
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.
mixedbrains
July 7th, 2008
at 7:37 am
Looks Fun. faved and saved. will try it out thanks!
sc
July 8th, 2008
at 3:58 pm
This is a great feature, is there the possibility of this being expanded to be used for .mov files?
Shane
July 8th, 2008
at 7:50 pm
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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Sam Deeks
July 10th, 2008
at 1:51 pm
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!
Shane
July 10th, 2008
at 2:07 pm
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.
areztdotcom
July 11th, 2008
at 6:58 am
Hii…its nice to know this theme, and how we add flickrss in main page, not at sidebar, thx for your time
Shane
July 11th, 2008
at 3:03 pm
arezt,
Not really sure about flikrss. Videographer wasn’t built for pics, just moving pics
Look Gee
July 14th, 2008
at 3:11 am
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
Shane
July 14th, 2008
at 3:36 am
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.
Mark Lopes
July 25th, 2008
at 1:25 am
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.
Mark Lopes
July 25th, 2008
at 1:29 am
By the way, any preview of the release of the new videographer version?
Ravi
July 25th, 2008
at 4:14 am
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..
Shane
July 25th, 2008
at 5:18 pm
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.
Ravi
July 26th, 2008
at 6:35 am
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.
yoken
July 27th, 2008
at 3:23 pm
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…
Shane
July 29th, 2008
at 2:09 pm
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.
Jai
July 30th, 2008
at 1:41 pm
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
Mark Lopes
July 30th, 2008
at 11:54 pm
Hi Shane, any prediction about the date of the release of the update?
Shane
August 1st, 2008
at 5:27 pm
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.
Mark Lopes
August 4th, 2008
at 7:54 am
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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Tarky7
August 13th, 2008
at 5:04 pm
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
Shane
August 13th, 2008
at 6:55 pm
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.
Mark Lopes
August 19th, 2008
at 11:19 pm
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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komedi
August 23rd, 2008
at 11:12 am
thx!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! im using it on my web u can visit!
Paul
August 23rd, 2008
at 11:55 pm
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.
WAIL
August 28th, 2008
at 10:31 am
Nice Job, I really like it!
juan
September 11th, 2008
at 4:21 pm
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
Shane
September 11th, 2008
at 9:33 pm
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!
lankapo
September 12th, 2008
at 5:06 am
hi shane,
great job, you create a great theme.
Keep up the good work. Can’t wait to see the next version.
lankapo
Tarky7
September 12th, 2008
at 7:57 pm
Hey Shane,
You are just awesome ! Thank so much fer that fix !
Best
Kit
Williams Molina
September 14th, 2008
at 7:51 am
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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at 10:19 pm
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?
Shane
September 19th, 2008
at 3:18 am
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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September 24th, 2008
at 12:28 am
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.
Germain Bracamontes
September 25th, 2008
at 4:42 pm
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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Barry
September 30th, 2008
at 11:54 am
Hi Shane,
I have some issues with getting the thumbnails to show?
Any ideas what I need to do to fix it?
KR,
Barry.
Barry
September 30th, 2008
at 11:57 am
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?
abas
October 2nd, 2008
at 1:30 pm
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
Shane
October 2nd, 2008
at 5:02 pm
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.
Mike
October 3rd, 2008
at 1:35 am
thanks, Ive been looking for one for a long time!
Esteaban
October 7th, 2008
at 6:25 pm
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.
Richard
October 7th, 2008
at 9:12 pm
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.
LinQQed
October 8th, 2008
at 12:19 pm
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!
Richard
October 9th, 2008
at 12:35 am
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 : (
Shane
October 9th, 2008
at 1:38 am
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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at 5:57 am
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Star
October 21st, 2008
at 8:53 am
Great theme,
I used this theme in my video website
Thanks a lot
Phillip
October 23rd, 2008
at 2:58 am
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.
Shane
October 24th, 2008
at 12:04 am
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.
chat
October 30th, 2008
at 8:15 pm
Thanks
widi
November 4th, 2008
at 10:39 am
Hi Shane,
Thanks for your themes, it’s makes me surprise. thanks again.
muriel
November 7th, 2008
at 8:28 pm
Awesome theme!
One question: Is this theme widgetized?
Shane
November 8th, 2008
at 3:39 am
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.
Daniel Hunt
November 9th, 2008
at 7:04 pm
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
Shane
November 10th, 2008
at 4:17 pm
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.
M. Howe
November 12th, 2008
at 1:20 am
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.
Shane
November 15th, 2008
at 4:33 am
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.
Doug
November 16th, 2008
at 6:11 pm
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.
Shane
November 16th, 2008
at 9:37 pm
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.
iumi
November 17th, 2008
at 3:15 am
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!
iumi
November 17th, 2008
at 3:22 am
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″/
Shane
November 17th, 2008
at 3:42 am
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.
scott weiss
November 18th, 2008
at 11:50 am
Hey Shane, can you tell me how I can edit my logo?
Thanks,
Scott
Shane
November 18th, 2008
at 5:45 pm
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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Rogelio
November 22nd, 2008
at 12:51 am
Great Theme!
How many videos can I add to a post?. One or more?.
Thanks
Shane
November 22nd, 2008
at 3:15 pm
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.
Aidan
November 23rd, 2008
at 1:43 am
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…
Gio
November 23rd, 2008
at 4:03 pm
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!
Shane
November 23rd, 2008
at 11:20 pm
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.
Aidan
November 24th, 2008
at 2:48 am
Thanks a bunch Shane – I will let you know when I’m done…
mik
November 27th, 2008
at 9:26 pm
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
Shane
November 27th, 2008
at 10:09 pm
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.
mik
November 28th, 2008
at 1:26 pm
Great Shane! Now it works!
Thanks a lot!
mik
Elijah
November 30th, 2008
at 12:31 am
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.
Shane
November 30th, 2008
at 6:50 am
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).
Elijah
November 30th, 2008
at 9:21 am
Hi Shane,
Thanks for your fast reply! Ok, I will reduce the width of the feature-contents gallery to see if it helps.
Tim
November 30th, 2008
at 5:47 pm
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
Shane
November 30th, 2008
at 10:11 pm
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.
Nuraishah888
December 3rd, 2008
at 9:01 am
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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Joliveira
December 9th, 2008
at 8:49 pm
Excelent theme!
i use it on a recent rpoject for a DIY video page, it works, perfectly. http://videos.bricolagetotal.com
Thanks,
Joliveira
Mark Lopes
December 13th, 2008
at 3:07 am
Hi Shane
Once again congratulations on your theme. I would love to add some articles to my posts, instead of videos, and add a picture to it, but I can figure out how to add a simple picture in the post and appear on the thumbnail of the index page. I know it’s prepared for videos only, but with some code changes I could add a picture instead of a video. Can you help me with this? My site is http://www.jeffdunhamvideo.com, if you wnat to check it out.
Shane
December 14th, 2008
at 3:24 am
Hi Mark,
It really is just for video. What you want to do is doable – you’re just going to have to research it. You want to find out how to automatically insert a thumbnail photo from your post into the index page first. Then you need to construct some sort of “if else” statement to use the post photo if there is no video, else use the video.
MANOJ JAIN
December 17th, 2008
at 3:41 am
There is error or problem
/wp-content/themes/Videographer/single.php on line 14
is it becoz I installed the script in a sub-folder and not root directory of the domain?
Please help.
Thanks in advance
Shane
December 18th, 2008
at 2:02 pm
Manoj,
That could be the problem. The theme is meant to be in the root domain. Also make sure the YouTube plugin mentioned is installed, activated, and setup.
Joliveira
December 18th, 2008
at 9:29 pm
I have my site in a sub-folder with no problems. I added a subdomain.
Miguel
December 20th, 2008
at 1:12 am
Hello Shane, I want to start a new vlob and i think your theme is perfect for it…. But the thing is…. I cant really type the custom field’s id… because of some techniques I use on my vlob… So is there a php code that I could use to get the custom field?? Like, if i could type in the post like THE ID, ‘vids’, true); ?> and then it would be like i was typing in the custom field and get the thumbnail…. It is really hard to explain because im not american… so if u did not undertood me please tell me
Thank You
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at 8:21 pm
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spotsafe
January 6th, 2009
at 2:13 am
Hey, first off, great theme. I used it for my video sharing site for kids: http://www.spotsafe.com. Do you or anybody else have a suggestion for inserting a “Most Watched” item on the sidebar?
Shane
January 6th, 2009
at 4:56 pm
Hey Spot,
You need to use a top posts plugin. Just do a Google search and you should find what you need.
Joliveira
January 7th, 2009
at 8:12 am
Hi Spot, you can also use the most rated video.
Rodney
January 7th, 2009
at 9:32 pm
Hello Shane,
I am using WordPress 2.7 and there is no custom field called “key”. I named the custom field key, but is does not take the place of the NAME field. There is no where to enter “vids” in the Key field. The thumbnails are not showing. Your video shows an older version of WordPress. Please explain what should be done here. Thanks.
Shane
January 7th, 2009
at 10:33 pm
Rodney,
The “Key” field in custom fields is now called “Name”. So the name should be “vids” and then you put your video ID in the value field.
Don
January 9th, 2009
at 11:10 pm
Shane,
how hard would it be to use your theme with embeded video from other services? I really like your layout, but I use screencast.com to host my videos since. I am a newbie at this and just trying to find a good theme to show of some of my tutorials.
Shane
January 10th, 2009
at 3:48 am
Don,
I was looking at enabling other video sites for the theme but none are as easy as YouTube to integrate … it was just too complicated to add multiple sites so I decided against it.
Casamacau
January 11th, 2009
at 7:19 am
Hi Shane
please visit my site, I used your theme in my site for youtube downloader
very nice and thanks very much
1
January 13th, 2009
at 6:52 pm
Hi,
First, sorry for my poor english.
I installed everything and all is working fine… just that the thumbnail does not get created… you can see an example http://video.hosting-be.com
Thanks for helping me.
Dee
January 15th, 2009
at 1:04 pm
the wp-youtube does not work with wordpress 2.7, whenever i click on “create profile” nothing happens. Please help!!! thanks
Shane
January 18th, 2009
at 8:58 pm
Hey 1,
Videographer was not built to go on a subdomain but in the root domain, so that could be the problem.
Dee,
I have not tested the plugin with WP 2.7. If the plugin is not up to date or compatible, there’s not too much I can do about it (it’s not my plugin).
mobil
January 19th, 2009
at 10:41 am
thanks you
1
January 19th, 2009
at 4:22 pm
Thanks for your response, but I got a domain name now… http://www.video-gag.eu and it stil does not create the thumbnail… I must be missing something…
Shane
January 19th, 2009
at 5:30 pm
Hey 1,
You have to upload, activate and setup the YouTube plugin first (see the post for details).
Joliveira
January 19th, 2009
at 7:50 pm
I have it on a subdomain…
Doug
January 19th, 2009
at 8:56 pm
Shane – you rock!
codeboot
January 24th, 2009
at 12:18 pm
very good !
Nuraishah
February 2nd, 2009
at 12:57 pm
I love this video theme,and try change a little item at related video in side bar,change from the text title to thumbnail.You can see it’s in my blog http://videoclips2u.com/movie/rihanna-live-in-concert-2008-manchester/.html
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Joliveira
February 5th, 2009
at 6:54 pm
@Nuraishah
Nice work, can you explain how to do it?
Joliveira
Ciprian
February 6th, 2009
at 3:37 am
Hi,
Great theme. I was wondering if we can manually add the thumbnail location for the videos we embed.
http://media1.break.com/dnet/media/2009/2/44-cal-nerf-gun-nut-shot.jpg
Right click and Copy image location. I got that. Any way this can be added? That way we would be able to post videos from any video sharing website.
Thank you.
Shane
February 6th, 2009
at 5:38 am
Ciprian,
To do that you will require some programming. Your best bet is probably to create a second custom field (call it video_thumbnail for example) and then put the image’s url into the field for each post. Then, in your index.php and archive.php files you have to replace the code:
[?php $vids = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'vids', true); ?]
[a href="[?php the_permalink() ?]” title=”[?php the_title(); ?]“]
[img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/[?php echo($vids) ?]/2.jpg”
alt=”[?php the_title(); ?]” width=”130px” height=”97px” /][/a]
with something like:
[?php $thumbnail_pic = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'video_thumbnail', true); ?]
[a href="[?php the_permalink() ?]” title=”[?php the_title(); ?]“]
[img src="[?php echo($thumbnail_pic) ?]”
alt=”[?php the_title(); ?]” width=”130px” height=”97px” /][/a]
Change all [ ] to <>. Not tested, but that should give you an idea of what to play with to make it work.
Ciprian
February 7th, 2009
at 3:04 am
so will the old “vids” custom field still work if i make these changes?
Paolo
February 10th, 2009
at 11:53 am
Shane, thanks a lot for your great theme. I used it for my Videomotori.net site.
Mike
February 12th, 2009
at 7:17 pm
Hi Shane,
I’m really excited about this theme. But I’m having problems with the logo. I’ve followed the advice on the above posts, changed the header code – but it keeps shifting my ad all the way to the left, and there’s a big whitespace on the right, causing sidescrolling. And no logo. Can you tell me what I’m doing wrong?
I’ve looked at some other site examples, and my logo seems to be the appropriate size, it’s a jpg file …
Shane
February 13th, 2009
at 1:24 am
Hi Mike,
First thing I see is that you have curly-quotes instead of straight quotes after .jpg and around the border style ( maybe because you copied the code form here). Just delete them with your code editor and rewrite them so they’re straight like the others and that will fix them. That looks like the problem. If you followed the info above in the comments it should work.
Mike
February 13th, 2009
at 11:12 am
Thanks Shane.
That did get my logo up, but still having problems with the header. My categories list is sitting on top of the page. Did I accidentally erase some code perhaps? Even when I replace the original header code, the categories are still on top – it appears that the original header space is gone… Should I reinstall the entire theme?
Thanks so much for your help – can’t wait to get going on this!
Mike
February 13th, 2009
at 11:18 am
I should mention that I just checked it out on Internet Explorer. Turns out it works pretty well there, although the header is in black – on Firefox it was white (before I started tinkering). But as it stands, the header is still missing in Firefox.
Emiliano Bruni
February 13th, 2009
at 12:56 pm
Hi Guys. I’m currently modding this theme to support other video content provider and local flash video and quicktime.
Also stay in backward compatibility with this standard theme, I currently use Viper’s Video Quicktags (http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/vipers-video-quicktags/) to include video directly in editor without use named attributes.
I’m starting today to modding this theme and currently seems to works with YouTube and Google Video using inline Viper’s tag [youtube] and [googlevideo] with correct thumbnails in index.php.
Actually you can see my works in my subversion site (https://svn.micso.net:666/svnweb/index.cgi/bruni/browse/Wordpress/VideographerEx/trunk/VideographerEx/).
I will be very happy if Shane wants to collaborate with my modding theme.
Sorry for my bad english.
Emiliano Bruni
February 13th, 2009
at 12:57 pm
I will be very happy if Shane wants to collaborate with my modding theme or, of course, include my changes in his theme.
Shane
February 13th, 2009
at 3:39 pm
Mike,
Rename a fresh copy of the theme (folder and in the commented out section at the top of the style sheet) and upload it. Then you can compare the original with your modifications and pick through the code.
Mike
February 13th, 2009
at 6:54 pm
Shane, I’m all set. Thanks so much, both for the help and getting back to me so fast!
Emiliano Bruni
February 14th, 2009
at 7:29 am
Hi guys. I published online my two day work about Videographer mod.
In this site
http://www.devtv.eu/vgex-demo/
you’ll find examples of:
- video from YouTube using standard vids attribute
- video from YouTube using [youtube] viper’s plugin tag
- video from Google using [googlevideo]
- video from Vimeo
- video from local flash file
- video from local Quicktime file and via RTSP streaming protocol
- A post with no video attach (I’ll modify it to show first post image if available, a thumb from a post attribute or a default image)
Other video support in a few days.
Bye
Emiliano Bruni
February 14th, 2009
at 4:37 pm
I think to have complete my modding of Videographer.
Now add support also for Dailymotion, Veoh, Viddler, Metacafe, Blip.tv, Flickr video, spike.com, MySpace video.
I add also thumb for post without video via a custom field “video_thumb” and a post without video with thumb automatically taken ad the first image in the post.
All example are available in my demo site
http://www.devtv.eu/vgex-demo/
I wish to know by Shane if he wish to collaborate and what is the license for his videographer because I wish to distribute my changes in a free license like GPL or creatives commons.
Bye
Shane
February 14th, 2009
at 5:07 pm
Emiliano,
Great job! I always encourage people to mod and play with the theme. You’ve added some great features that people have been asking for. Feel free to distribute it under GPL.
Alan
February 16th, 2009
at 5:41 pm
Great theme Shane! The WP-YouTube plugin doesn’t work with v2.7.1 of WordPress so the thumbnail feature and the other goodies do not work.
Emiliano,
Your mod looks excellent! Do you have a download link.
I also use and prefer the viper plugin to embed videos to WP.
muriel
February 16th, 2009
at 6:49 pm
Great job, Shane and Emilio!
One request: Is it possible to make this theme compatible with WP 2.7.1?
muriel
February 16th, 2009
at 7:13 pm
Also, is it possible now to put WordPress in a folder other than the root domain?
Shane
February 17th, 2009
at 9:39 pm
I think Emiliano’s mod will solve many of these problems … once he gets it finished and puts it out there for download.
Emiliano Bruni
February 18th, 2009
at 7:20 pm
I’m happy to announce that VideographEx is now an official WordPress theme.
This is the official link
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/videographex
on WordPress theme directory. This is the theme link on my website
http://www.ebruni.it/software/os/wp/videographex/
Feel free to ask me any changes you think might be helpful and please report me any problem you should find.
For Shane an info about these comments: in Firefox all comments below # 18454 “February 12th, 2009 at 7:17 pm” are hidden by the gray background. I uploaded a screenshot of the problem here
http://flickr.com/photos/27545546@N00/3291551096/
Emiliano Bruni
February 18th, 2009
at 7:22 pm
muriel,
I developed VideographEx under WP 2.7.1 so it’s compatible with WP 2.7.1
Shane
February 18th, 2009
at 9:16 pm
Emiliano,
Great work! I’m aware of the FF problem – just haven’t been able to figure it out or spend much time on it. Kind of forgot about it actually – thanks for the heads up.
Joliveira
February 18th, 2009
at 9:20 pm
Nice Work Emiliano Bruni!
Paul
March 4th, 2009
at 1:45 pm
Great theme. I’ve inserted it in my theme showcase wordpressgala.
Chris
March 10th, 2009
at 10:42 pm
This theme would be perfect for me if it supported serverside flv’s instead of just youtube vids… anyone hacked together something that generates that little preview? If not, I may be dissecting your code, Shane. Great looking template!
Chris
March 10th, 2009
at 10:43 pm
I should read above. Thanks Emiliano!
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March 20th, 2009
at 5:01 pm
[...] Videographer: If you are uploading your video blog posts to YouTube, this is the perfect theme for you. The Videographer theme uses the WP YouTube plugin to create a wonderful looking video blog. The latest posts are displayed in a column on the homepage and feature a screenshot from the video, along with the title and description. Additionally, the theme uses the WP PostRatings plugin, so your visitors can rate your posts on the homepage or within the post themselves. [...]
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March 23rd, 2009
at 1:02 am
[...] Videographer [...]
Terra
March 25th, 2009
at 12:41 pm
To both Shane and Emiliano, you guys did an awesome job!
I just started my new site focused on auto shows, AutoShowVideos.com. I searched for themes and plugins and quickly found your themes and plugin suggestions. I just posted my first YouTube video to my site. Super easy!!! Yayy!
I better get to work posting vids.
Thanks again for your contribution. I owe you a beer!
-Terra
Joliveira
April 2nd, 2009
at 8:23 pm
Another beer from Portugal!
JetKaiser
April 14th, 2009
at 4:03 am
Thanks for sharing, I might use it.
klvids
April 21st, 2009
at 2:46 pm
I found the link to WP Youtube Profiles when I installed wp 2.5.1 on a test site
yoursite.com/wp-admin/edit.php?page=wp-youtube/wp-youtube.php
so we can still use the plugin but there will be confusion over where the Manage link in the admin panel is since it’s no longer there.
Giorgio Marandola
April 27th, 2009
at 7:57 am
A M A Z I N G !!! You made a great job!! absoltely great!! I am an italian blogger and web designer and this is the most clear and kick ass thing I’ve ever seen.. Usually there are a lot of developers that create things, explain everything…but there are errors, or incompatibilities… but not now…Everything clear, and everything work geat!! Congratulations!!!!
You can check out your theme and gallery in action here:
http://www.ebraismoedintorni.it/video
I installed it now, and tomorrow i will start to modify everything for my needs! Great!
Have a nice day !!
David
May 31st, 2009
at 5:57 pm
can I buy a license of ur theme ? I would like to do a video blog without credits footer, as others themes are offering licenses as alternative. Is it as possible? thanks in advance
Karan
June 18th, 2009
at 6:22 am
Is multi-level category menu possible in this theme? cus if I add some BSB song then it must be placed in Music>BSB.
Naveed Taj Ghouri
June 29th, 2009
at 12:09 pm
The Videos displayed in pages having Full Screen Option Disabled, as compared to embed videos via code provided by YouTube. How to allow full screen option. Please guide me. Thanks
Cole
July 5th, 2009
at 11:56 pm
Great theme! Things look good so far and I’m still trying to get the theme up and running on my localhost, I seem to be not be getting any thumbnails though when I put a video in? Is there an extra plugin I need or is the theme supposed to do this already?? I have downloaded and activated WP YouTube and set up my profile correctly (at least I think). Any clue what’s causing this to happen? Maybe it’s because I’m running off my MAMP server??
Thanks for the theme!
– Cole
Joliveira
July 11th, 2009
at 7:22 pm
Giorgio Marandola it seems that you haven’t modified it yet,..
Fenton
July 12th, 2009
at 2:55 am
I have installed the theme and have the WPYouTube Plugin enabled and setup. But thumbnails does not appear in the blog, only blank pictures frame. Any ideas on this??
Thanks and appreciate it.
Fenton
July 12th, 2009
at 3:19 am
Sorry, I have just figure out how to make it work, left out the custom field
But, I have another question, how to apply the XHTML template to the achieve page?
Thanks
Cihan
July 14th, 2009
at 9:18 am
Hi Shane,
I want to say that theme is great but there is a little thing I cannot sort out:
“Fatal error: Call to undefined function wpyoutube() in C:\Program Files\EasyPHP 3.0\www\tedgunluk\wp-content\themes\Videographer Theme\Videographer\single.php on line 14″
I ve done the instructions you gave – active the plugin, call the vids and value- but I am still getting this problem. I’ll be glad you help me..
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July 18th, 2009
at 10:36 pm
[...] think your site could be better served by a different WordPress theme. I found one online called Videographer that I think you could tweak to really push your brand more. Simple is best, adding is easier than [...]
Joe Sager
August 3rd, 2009
at 3:06 am
I installed the Videographer theme and everything works except on related videos show up under the related videos heading.
Peter
August 4th, 2009
at 3:51 am
hello all, i want to make a video blog and this is the best theme for it.
But I have one question:
What happens, if the video doesnt exsist anymore in youtube? Is there a plug in to check if the video link is still alive or is deleted?
Thanks for any help.
Best Wishes Peter
olie
August 22nd, 2009
at 9:29 am
Hi shane, thanks you so much. This is awesome. I will give you my blog after i give it a try. thanks a lot:)
Dan Safkow
September 1st, 2009
at 4:05 am
Love the theme! I’m new with WordPress and have enjoyed learning and creating a couple of niche video sites …
http://www.marketingsecrets.tv
http://www.twittermarketingsecrets.com
You’ll see that I’ve hacked my way into a couple of modifications with a full banner, email opt-in form and “featured video” widget.
Thanks for Videographer!
mark
September 2nd, 2009
at 12:27 pm
I was wondering if there is a way to have the LATEST video that I have posted be a BIG one at the very top of the site and then with the tumbnails one below? Is that possible and how will I go about doing that?
Thanks
MArk
bisnis internet
September 3rd, 2009
at 6:20 am
I like this theme, thanks very much.
david
Facebook Tube
September 6th, 2009
at 7:50 pm
thanks for great theme. i will use it.
Rui
October 7th, 2009
at 12:16 pm
Hi There!
Thanks for this theme. Iwill use it in my next project. But i have one question!
When I double-click on the videos open the youtube website and users abandon the site. Is there any way to change this?
Best Regards
dav
October 11th, 2009
at 10:04 am
great theme
Kamal
October 16th, 2009
at 7:12 am
Hello dear thanks for your free thame which i have uploaded and also got all the plugin too but as i upload videos it show me fatal error on single.php line 14 which i dont understant can you help me on this matter
Thanks
Kamal
October 16th, 2009
at 7:30 am
Hello dear its me again I am gonna explain you my problem in detail i can see the thumnail but when i click them it show like this
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wpyoutube() in /home/merowe/public_html/wp-content/themes/Videographer/single.php on line 14
Kamal
October 20th, 2009
at 4:31 pm
Hello Shane finally I managed to get it working after plugin wp youtube version 2
Thanks a lot for your thame
Karrie
October 22nd, 2009
at 8:33 pm
i can’t seem to figure out how to post a video into the little box on the left of the excerpt on the home page! what’s wrong with me – it’s not like i’ve never worked with themes before. help
Mutu
November 7th, 2009
at 5:47 pm
Hi Shane,
It seems it display hostgator 404 page instead of your custom 404 page. How to enable it?
dorjee
November 18th, 2009
at 7:40 am
A great theme, thx!!!!!!!
Two questions:
1) I don’t understand what is to be done with what is said in the Profile editor:
“Put tag name and YouTube ID together and place it in your theme:
”
Where have I to put this php code exactly?
2) I would like a fluid width theme or a width adapted whith HD videos (853×505). I tried some “width: 100%” in the css file but the result is not very good. A suggestion?
dorjee
November 18th, 2009
at 7:19 pm
Well, I come back to say that I tried this:
- in style.css file I replaced all the “940px” with “90%” (4 cases)
- and I replaced “left” with “right” in the line: #sidebar { float: left; …
- I copy paste code from sidebar2-php to sidebar3.php for having the “Related videos” links just under the RSS-Search-etc. functions.
This gives a good result, with a full screen theme, aligned on left side of the screen, but not on the border. THE PROBLEM is that it works perfectly in Firefox, but NOT in Chrome or Iexplorer where the sidebar is displayed under the page content (!!!). A little help please!!!!!
For the first question of my previous message it is always a puzzle, even all seems to work with videos without this (???).
dorjee
November 20th, 2009
at 6:16 pm
Finally I advance in the issue with ie and chrome. I recall the problem is that in iexplorer and google chrome (not firefox) the right sidebar is displayed under the post. What I found is that this happens when I check the “Users must be registered and logged in to comment” option in Discussion settings. Being not an expert in PHP I need a little help for this issue. But I wonder if somebody is reading these comments…
dorjee
November 22nd, 2009
at 9:15 am
Little precision: I delete what I said about “it works with firefox not ie and chrome”. Actually, IT DOESN’T WORKS with firefox too. I forgot to logout. When I logout the “Users must be registered and logged in to comment” option leads to the same display issue: sidebar is under post.
(Note: I regret the author of this theme doesn’t reply. Moreover I propose to him money, but no reaction!!!!!!!!!).
Bricolage Videos
November 22nd, 2009
at 11:32 am
It looks good dorjee!!
dorjee
November 25th, 2009
at 7:25 pm
Yes, finally I give up the fluid width version of the theme and I accept a small width for video (500px) when I see on a 15″ screen that this did work…
Jeff
December 14th, 2009
at 2:31 am
Is there any way to display the page menu across the top, instead of the categories? I only have 1 category (so it looks kind of funny).. but several pages.
Thanks.
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December 26th, 2009
at 8:16 am
[...] Videographer – No support but great free video template. Clean and simple. [...]
Rakesh
December 26th, 2009
at 6:53 pm
Thank you.. The theme is amazing.. Works Great!!
Onno Hoogendoorn
January 6th, 2010
at 3:00 pm
Hi Shane,
Thank you very much for creating this great theme.
Onno
Pete
January 8th, 2010
at 4:29 pm
Looks great. Thanks for this one.
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January 21st, 2010
at 10:17 pm
[...] http://www.zoomstart.com/videographer-wordpress-theme/ [...]
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January 27th, 2010
at 6:23 am
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dorjee
February 20th, 2010
at 5:49 am
A late answer to Jeff: the way to display the page menu across the top menu, instead of the categories. The solution is: edit “top_nav.php” file in edit theme. Then replace all what is in this file with the following code:
dorjee
February 20th, 2010
at 5:51 am
As I expected the “code” can’t be displayed in this thread. I try this:
[code][/code]
dorjee
February 20th, 2010
at 5:54 am
Hum! Impossible! It’s a pitty I can’t help Jeff and other guys who would like to fix this issue. I try to put a character per line, you can easily rebuild the code:
dorjee
February 20th, 2010
at 5:59 am
Fail! Sorry, I don’t know how to give the code in this system
But I can describe it! Let’s try:
the code is between two ul tags
in the middle, this a php tag as this: ?php wp_list_pages(‘title_li=’ ); ?
(hum, hope this will be displayed here…)
dorjee
February 20th, 2010
at 6:03 am
Oh, yes, now I understand the blog doesn’t accept the tag delimiters. So here is the code, you have just to replace “O” with the open tag delimiter and “C” with the close tag delimiter. Right?
OulCO?php wp_list_pages(‘title_li=’ ); ?CO/ulC
doug
March 24th, 2010
at 1:51 am
Love your theme and the process you are going through to develop it and the comments you are giving back – which is what I need.
I’d very much like to change that top right Graphic – the big square you have made up of blocks of colors in it and “Videographer” in the middle of it – Would you kindly provide me with instructions. Thank you!!
Also you hinted at an update – how do you let your people know?
Joliveira
April 21st, 2010
at 5:44 pm
I have been using it for a while and its great!!
Andrew
May 4th, 2010
at 4:16 pm
Very nice theme thanks. Making some mods to it, hope that’s ok.
Thanks again
iumi
June 4th, 2010
at 11:54 am
hey there, thanks again for the theme.. yesterday I was trying to optimize some of my sites by switching the h1 & h2 tags.. since from what I’ve read most wordpress themes have them reversed.. meaning that single post titles will get h2 tags instead of the h1.
Anyway, I was trying to do that editing with your theme but couldn’t find the h1 tag in the header for the blog title. Is there any? Or where can I add it? same with the h1′s in single posts.
Gracias!!
mark
June 5th, 2010
at 12:37 am
Wow! a really great wordpress video theme and its free. thanks for the share. Cant wait to try this
Attia
June 6th, 2010
at 8:29 pm
thanks for a good theme
but I need to put my adsense ads in the home page?
please tell me how can I do thaat
thanks alot
kleansy
July 1st, 2010
at 11:13 am
This will be an awesome one to have. Thanks for sharing and this will be a priority theme for my video blog.
James
July 22nd, 2010
at 7:07 am
For everyone that’s having this error:
“Fatal error: Call to undefined function wpyoutube() in C:\Program Files\EasyPHP 3.0\www\tedgunluk\wp-content\themes\Videographer Theme\Videographer\single.php on line 14?
I just fixed it.. the problem is that the wp-youtube plugin has too many folders when it installs into wordpress, so it gives an “invalid header” message, and doesn’t install correctly or at all..
What you need to do it take the wp-youtube plugin and move the actual files doing the work (wp-youtube.css, .js, etc..) and put them one directory up from where they are. In other words, instead of it looking like
yourdomain/theme/wp-content/plugins/wp-youtube/wp-youtube/wp-youtube.js,
you want it to be
…yourdomain/theme/wp-content/plugins/wp-youtube/wp-youtube.js
(eliminate one folder) make sure you move all the image and “working” files up one. Don’t leave any of them behind. Then follow everything he says above..
One more thing though.. above when he says put “key” as “vids”, in wp 3.0 I think it calls “key” a different word: “name”
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