Was extremely happy with the Newspaper theme until I was told that a very important feature of my website was not possible.
On my website blockchainorigins.com, I want to create a video playlist that will feature many videos from one channel. I used a 3rd party plugin – WP RSS Aggregator Feed to Post – to automatically pull many videos from one youtube channel and then feed those videos to the Newspaper Youtube Playlist block. However, when I tried this, it did not work (it worked only when I pulled news articles from different sources and fed them into the regular post blocks).
I contacted Tagdiv and asked for support, but was told that I had to manually put in each video id separated by commas. This didn’t make sense to me given that this was a “newspaper” theme – it seems like a no brainer that a news site with a section dedicated to featured videos would be able to pull in many videos at once from a youtube channel. This just didn’t logically make sense to me, so in order to figure out why this did not work, I contacted WP RSS aggregator. This was their reply:
“In that case, since this issue is related to your theme setting, it would be best to also contact your theme developer and asked their advice how to show the video in the place you’d like to.
In most cases, a theme usually makes use of a custom field or post meta to store a video or YouTube link which will then be displayed according to the theme functionality.
When importing from YouTube, Feed to Post stored a couple of information from a feed item in the imported post’ custom fields. One of them is the ‘wprss_item_permalink’ key which stores the original YouTube video permalink.
If you can get the post meta or the custom field that your theme use to display the video, you can then make use of this filter to map or copy the value from ‘wprss_item_permalink’ to your theme post meta key automatically when the import process takes place.
However, this will be possible to happen if your theme works as in this way. So again, please confirm with your theme developer what’s the best way to get this issue resolved.
If you need anything else from our end, please let us know.”
I forwarded that message to Tagdiv and the reply was:
Unfortunately the theme doesn’t have a similar element, sorry!
I have been trying for a week now to figure out how to overcome this and see if I can install other plugins that might help. However, I have not been able to successfully import a lot of videos all at once from one channel. It seems unintuitive that a news theme would make it manual for a a video playlist to have each video id inserted one by one. This means that if I had 100 videos, I would have to insert each video id one by one.
Tagdiv, I’m a big fan of your theme, but please let me know if you have a possible solution to this, or if you know of any use cases where other customers incorporated some 3rd party plugin that will workaround the manual video id insertion. Really appreciate any help I can get. Thank you!
Hi,
The default playlist element does not have such advanced options that you require. Try multiple playlist plugins which have these capabilities if there are any. There could be plugins that will allow you to enter playlist URL’s and synchronize the videos on the website when the source playlist is updated.
If the plugin has a shortcode you could place in on pages, by entering it in text elements and check the results. This could be a solution.
Thanks
