Wrong Featured Video Image Random

It has been doing this to me since I think version 2.1 of the theme. I will add a video post and put a youtube video link and it will show a random image of images from the media library that has nothing to do with the post and it only does this with youtube.

I can use dailymotion and vimeo fine but youtube just does not grab the right image from the video and it is random, not all the time. So I can’t give you a screenshot unless it happens again. I just went to youtube and was adding Navy Seals VS Zombies trailer and the first trailer I got the link and added it showed an image of I Spit On Your Grave: Vengeance Is Mine image.

Went back to youtube and searched for another trailer and that one actually showed the image from the video. So I have no clue what is wrong with youtube video and pulling the images from them.

YouTube may serve the wrong image, or even a related image at times — sometimes they just serve the wrong image from a video. Super annoying. Kind of like in Google News sometimes I hit the tweet button and it shows me different story … what? Google not perfect ? 🙂

I realize this thread is quite old, but I’ve encountered a similar issue in just the last couple of days in the Newspaper theme.

I use a lot of YouTube videos with content on my site. In the last 48 hours, whenever I add a YouTube video to the Featured Video module (in the right-hand column). Upon saving the article, instead of scraping the video URL I’ve added, I see the thumbnail of a video I incorrectly pasted by mistake 2 days ago. The URL is just from a video I was listening to while working on the site.

For reference, here’s the video I pasted by accident:

Now, every time I paste a new video in the Featured Video field, this incorrect thumbnail appears. As a temporary workaround, I’m using a third-party tool to retrieve the correct thumbnail manually. I have to go to Featured Image, remove the bad/cached video image, and then manually add the thumbnail I’ve extracted with the third-party tool.

For reference, here’s the tool I’ve been using:

Any assistance or suggestions to clear up this problem would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You
Joe D.
Chesapeake VA.

• This reply was modified 1 year by Joe. Reason: adding that problem is in newspaper theme

I have resolved the issue.

Initially, I created a test post and embedded a YouTube video, which resulted in the previously mentioned image appearing unexpectedly. After saving this, I created a second test post, embedded the same video, and this time, another unrelated graphic from a previously abandoned article appeared. I had not realized there were two different images associated with this issue.

Following that, I created a third test article, embedded the YouTube video once again, and upon saving, the correct YouTube thumbnail was successfully retrieved.

I posted several new articles yesterday with no sign of the problem. It appears whatever was queued up in the Feature Image area has cleared. The issue appears to be resolved.