Vimeo video not showing featured image

We are now back to the situation we had before where the video returns the errors listed above when I try and publish a post, this then leads to having to use the back button which in turn deletes a lot of the stuff I entered into the page, very frustrating.

I’ll see what my hosting provider comes up with on this fopen not being turned on situation

I simply have to get to the bottom of these problems

Hi Lucian,

Thank you for your reply.

I appreciate the offer of a refund but site as it stands represents many long hours of toil that I’ll never see a benefit from if I just give up. I try the refund trick all the time with my own customers as well, it’s a convenient way of not having to deal with the problem. It doesn’t do much for customer satisfaction though but lets not get into that negative stuff.

I like the theme and very much want to use it going forward as there are no other themes available as far as I know that have the same split sidebar configuration which I really like the look of, it just breaks the whole thing up nicely, so well done on that.

I have contacted the hosting provider and they have put the php.ini file together for me and I have added it to public_html as instructed, unfortunately this hasn’t solved the problem.

I get the following errors when I try to publish a post

Warning: get_headers() [function.get-headers]: https:// wrapper is disabled in the server configuration by allow_url_fopen=0 in /home/unplugti/public_html/wp-content/themes/Newsmag/includes/wp_booster/td_video_support.php on line 109

Warning: get_headers() [function.get-headers]: This function may only be used against URLs in /home/unplugti/public_html/wp-content/themes/Newsmag/includes/wp_booster/td_video_support.php on line 109

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/unplugti/public_html/wp-content/themes/Newsmag/includes/wp_booster/td_video_support.php:109) in /home/unplugti/public_html/wp-admin/post.php on line 233

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/unplugti/public_html/wp-content/themes/Newsmag/includes/wp_booster/td_video_support.php:109) in /home/unplugti/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 1178

Looking at the first error do you think they have incorrectly configured the php.ini file as it is showing “https:// wrapper is disabled in the server configuration by allow_url_fopen” do these files have to be configured differently for http and https?

I don’t know a lot about these things so I would appreciate your input and will get it changed if needs be.

The other errors seem to be something to do with the td_video_support.php file that we altered earlier, do you have any thoughts on why these errors may be occurring and what we might be able to do to alleviate the problem?

The problems I’m seeing are in the front and back end of wordpress, the posts are getting stuck when I try to publish them and are returning the above errors, I have also had the site fail when trying to delete the same post.

I have submitted the post again and although it returns the error and leaves me stuck on that page, if I open the site in a new window the post has actually been generated and the large full width video image is now shown in post (it wasn’t showing before), however if you then navigate to the home page the image still isn’t appearing in the blocks, it just shows the title for the post and the blank grey background. If I then go back to the media library in the back end of wordpress, it has once again generated 3 huge images inside the media library.

Have a think and get back to me, if we can’t work it out between us then I’ll send over the login details for you to have a look

Just to add, I am using different caching plugin on this site which seems to work better with the theme but I know this isn’t the problem, I have also set up 3 other test sites all with the exact same setting/plugins etc as you advise and all of my sites are throwing up this same problem. All of the sites are hosted with A2 hosting, all of these hosting accounts are brand new, all have dedicated ip and a site wide SSL and all are brand new clean servers with brand new clean wordpress installs.

I’m stumped and don’t know what to do next as video will be a large part of the new, original content that I had planned to create for the site, at the moment I’ve just put a bit of filler content on there to see how it all plays together and to figure out the design.

I was thinking of adding buddypress and a few other plugins but at present I’m not confident that these wont break the site so I’m holding back on that for now

Best wishes

I’ve just made 2 test posts with different youtube videos and they haven’t generated the extra images and the image is now appearing in the block on the front page.

I had deleted the expires headers from my htaccess file and tried it without, everything seems ok and then added the text back in to the htaccess file and tried it again and got the same good results. Maybe the specific video I was using is generating the 3 images for some reason?

I don’t know but it is still generating the errors in the back end with and without the files changed in htaccess so the problem still persists to some degree

Hi Lucien,

Yeah, I’ve done all of that.

The one thing that sticks in my mind now I think about it was that I updated all of my sites to the latest version of the theme on the same day and that was what caused the problem to occur on all of them, it was only happening on 1 of them to begin with.

My brother has a site that’s running on the previous iteration of the site (1.5?) and that works fine (he has the same hosting plan and settings)

I’m going to try and reload the previous version of the theme and see if that makes a difference.

I’ve been on to the server people again, allow_url_fopen is enabled but it is still showing the error, I had read that apache would need to be restarted for the changes to take effect but don’t know if this is correct, I have sent a message asking them for clarification.

I’ve reverted back to version 1.5 on one of my test accounts and the problem still remains, it also throws up the problem when deleting posts

I’ve been trying to add a video playlist to a series of sub pages to tie in different aspects of the content to my youtube channel but I am getting the following error when I add the playlist to the page and press publish.

Obviously there is something deeper going on with this as it is pulling up the same file as the other errors

Line 46 is as follows //take seconds

Warning: array_filter() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /home/unplugti/public_html/wp-content/themes/Newsmag/includes/wp_booster/td_video_playlist_support.php on line 46

Warning: array_filter() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /home/unplugti/public_html/wp-content/themes/Newsmag/includes/wp_booster/td_video_playlist_support.php on line 46

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/unplugti/public_html/wp-content/themes/Newsmag/includes/wp_booster/td_video_playlist_support.php:46) in /home/unplugti/public_html/wp-admin/post.php on line 233

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/unplugti/public_html/wp-content/themes/Newsmag/includes/wp_booster/td_video_playlist_support.php:46) in /home/unplugti/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 1178

I Just emptied all caches, purged all files, disabled all plugins except vc and tried it again and still got the same results on posts and pages when trying to publish.

I’m getting a little like I now realise this isn’t going to work for the 3 sites I had planned so I might as well request a refund for the 2 sites I was going to use this theme for, I’ll persevere with my unplug.tips site because of the time that’s already gone into it but it’s not just the cost of the theme that bothers me, I’m not on cheap hosting and the costs of having stuff sitting idle is starting to mount and get a little tedious.

I’ll have to try and work out which instance of the theme is linked to each purchase as there are 3 and I don’t know which is which (if this even matters?)

I’m still waiting for an answer from A2 about whether aqpache needs to be restarted to enable the changes to the php.ini file, as soon as I have that info I will send over the login for the site so you can take a look. Who knows I may be blinded by something obvious that you can see and I can’t

Hi,

I have emailed the wordpress login details to you and requested that you refund me for 2 of the 3 instances of the theme that I have purchased.

Please take a look, if you can’t solve the problem with the youtube video embed I’ll unfortunately have to find another theme

Problem solved!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you Chris S, Alin, Lucian and anyone else who’s helped me to solve this problem over the last few days.

I’m going for a lie down now, I’ll pour my brain back in through my ear first in the morning 🙂

Now I’m going to have a disco \o/ \o/

I’ve made a load of changes, I’ll post the results of my turmoil tomorrow for anyone else who’s trying to run the theme on SSL

Thanks in advance – am looking forward to it!

Hi FiftyFifty,

When you updated the theme did you do it via FTP? If you did, it wont work properly.

As Chris suggested, you need to do the update as per his guide, even if you didn’t do it by FTP it’s worth going through it again just to be sure.

Add a new theme (any) to act as a temporary
Delete the old theme in wordpress back end
Delete the VC and social counter plugins
Clear all caches including browser
Disable all the other plugins
Reload the theme via wordpress uploader and activate
Upload the plugins manually from the theme download file not from the on screen message in the plugin page
Activate all plugins
Test again

If that doesn’t do it go back to the wp_booster/td_video_support.php file and check very carefully that you got all the http URL’s some are easy to miss. Chris had said don’t do the youtube shortlinks but I’ve done em all and it works still so I’m kinda hoping it hangs together for a minute.

In your post, don’t forget to tick “video” in format and select style 8 from the post templates, I use the full URL from youtube and enter it into the sidebar

If you are adding the video player block to the page you will have to fill in all of the fields and add a video to it for it to show correctly on the page, you don’t add the full URL though just the series of letters and numbers at the end part of the URL

If all of that fails you probably need to go to your hosting provider and ask them to add a php.ini file and switch on allow_url_fopen = on

After a whole day of trying to find out what was wrong I went back to the server people and asked them if the allow_url_fopen was set to on and he came back with this

“I placed some code in your public_html folders .htaccess file to make the php.ini file work”

Real helpful that…..

So it was in fact the server that was the problem but also the theme should shoulder part of the blame as it’s not configured for SSL and that isn’t made apparent when you buy the theme, I’d also like to add that while TagDiv support and Chris who I understand doesn’t work for TagDiv are very helpful none of the solutions to these basic problems are presented in a coherent way.

Searching several thousand questions on a forum isn’t the best bet because some of this stuff needs to really be done in an organised fashion. More documentation is probably needed and to be fair I will probably put something together to add to the forum just for people who are stuck with configuration and SSL issues but I’m no expert so could end up doing more harm than good?

Anyway, all is working so that at least one satisfied customer.

Let me know how you get on

Thanks but fix (Chris instruction) seems way to time consuming for me now, it’s no showstopper. I’m gonna wait for the official update.

Might be better off with a different theme then lol, I’ve been configuring mine full time since Christmas 😮 I’ve nearly got it now though, seems stable enough once you get all of the server stuff sorted out.

If it’s to do with allow_url_fopen no update will fix it, I’d be willing to bet that’s your problem though.

This is interesting: It’s not the main issue that http videos are not shown in a https website (in Chrome and FF), but it’s because the http video is loaded in an iframe!

_Explanation:_
There’s a difference between active mixed content and passive mixed content. Mixed passive content is img – audio – video – embed and is safe to show. Iframe is not. Also script is not.

Mixed Active Content is content that has access to all or parts of the Document Object Model of the HTTPS page. This type of mixed content can alter the behavior of the HTTPS page and potentially steal sensitive data from the user. Hence, in addition to the risks described for Mixed Display Content above, Mixed Active Content is vulnerable to a few other attack vectors.

See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Security/MixedContent#Mixed_active_content

It would be best if https support is all over in the theme. But from a content/visitor perspective the solution would also be to replace the iframe embed from the featured video template. Is that an option?

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