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Daiko’s YouTube Widget is now available in norwegian, translated by yours truly….
In addition there is a pot-file included for other enthusiasts to translate it into their languages. Please send me a copy of your .po and .mo files if you do so for inclusion in the official download. And don’t hesitate to report any problems…..
As always! Have fun!
I’ve updated the Daiko’s YouTube Widget with support for “Post in Category(-ies)” conditional testing. That means that you will be able to specify that the widget will only display on certain posts belonging to certain category (or categories). The widget will also display on the respective Category archive pages.
Please enjoy and report any problems with it. Since this widget actually includes two widgets (the videoplayer also), make sure you test the flexibility of being able to change the way you display the video’s from the various YouTube widgets you have running.
Download it here: Daiko’s YouTube Widget
Have fun! 
After a question from one of my users I’ve included an additional conditional tag option in the widget that shows the widget only on posts belonging to a specific category or even a collection of categories. It will also display on the respective category archives.
Check it out and please give me feedback on it’s functionality.
I must appologize to all of you for the broken download links to my new widget. Well the fact is that all download links were broken. I moved to a new server and there was a change in path that was not corrected. Thank you Rich for notifying me.
Daiko
Better luck this time. Go get it here: Daiko’s YouTube Widget
As some of you may have noticed, I’ve added a sidebar widget that displays YouTube Videos as images. This is “Work in progress” and will in a not too distant future result in a YouTube Widget. It will have a twist since it displays images and not videos in the sidebar. Thanks to YouTube and their use of the video ID also as an image ID it is relatively easy to make a widget displaying the videos in the way shown to your right.
I’m also considering to include a plugin for this one that allows the users to publish videos from YouTube in their post with an option to only post the image and keep the actual video as a popup. Any thoughts on that?
The functionality increases of course when using ThickBox and swfObjects so thank you Cody Lindlay and Geoff Stearns for that.
Comment here if you want to influence on this project and stay tuned.
In preparing for the development of new video widgets and enhanced versions of the existing ones, I’ve been considering various apporaches. One of the killer features in the current version of Daiko’s Google VideoBar is the pop-up video player. The player certainly lifts videos out of the cramped sidebar on to the users desk regardless of the width of the sidebar.
One serious drawback of the VideoBar is that it is relatively difficult to control the results down to a detailed level. Several users are struggling to make the searches relevant to their site. Basically the results are limited by Google’s GSVideoBar interface.
I’ve earlier mentioned the possible merger of features from the Video Widget and the Google VideoBar. Exactly how that should work is still not decided and any suggestions are welcomed.
A Video Plugin that only displays thumbnails and uses the pop-up player is also a possible new feature that can be combined into a full blown Daiko’s Video ToolBox featuring video tools for WP.
Continue reading ‘Ideas for improved Video experience in WP blogs’
2007 is bound to become just as exciting as 2006 when it comes to using videos in the blogging space. Wordpress fortunately has a huge community of developers that have made some excellent tools to assist you in videotizing your blog.
Hosting the videos on your own servers is not recommended. In the YouTube and Google Video era it is completely redundant to spend your bandwith and server capacity to host the videos yourself. Use the facilities on those free services to upload your videos and then display them on your blog.
Continue reading ‘Tools to add videos to your Wordpress blog’
After extensive research and even some moderate hacking of the Google javascript for Google’s GSVideoBar, I have reached version 1.0 of Daiko’s Google Videobar. The main problem has as always been getting it to work with Internet Explorer. Someone should take Microsoft to court for not complying with the standards. I’m afraid that more resources world wide are going into developing fixes and hacks for Internet Explorer than spammers will ever cause. Simple standard based functionality that programmers easily can obtain with CSS and xhtml is almost impossible to do in IE.
Market power discussion and a humble leisure time programmer’s frustrations aside. Please enjoy the updated version of Daiko’s Google Videobar, and hopefully I’ll have the strength to come back with an explanation to what I had to do to fix the pop up player to work with IE (including 7.0).
I know it looks somewhat weird still in Opera. I haven’t put that much effort to iron out that, but I’ll get back to it at some point. If you want more features, just drop me a line, and I’ll consider it. Have a wonderful week!
The latest version (1.1) now supports both YouTube and Google Video.
In addition I have changed the way you can add/edit your own videolist. Now you do everything within the widget-control.
A default list of videos is still supplied, but is not used if you start adding videos in the widget-control.
Installation is the same as before. Just copy the supplied file (daikosvideowidget.php) to the /plugins/widgets directory and activate.
The syntax for adding videos to your widget is now:
[GoogleVideoID/YouTubeID]@[Title]
Without brackets!
Then add a linebrake for each line.
Example:
-6428233108896679183@Gay Referee
YUUD1z_tiJA@funny guy fool people with his girlfriend and a cam
8453442377878175440@Blue Man Group on Global Warming
-2796400367274619285@Global Warming PSA - Tick
JwMpaKiRyD0@Germany Argentina brawl
5301167223369517485@A Brief History of America
If you want to see how it looks in a wider sidebar, take a look at Advarsel.no.
I’ve been working on a widget to display Google Video’s of your own choice in the sidebar. The widget is based on Joe’s quotes and displays videos based on the Google Video ID and the Title.
Unlike Google’s own embed-encoding this plugin validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional. I know that the player controls are a bit messy when it is shrinked like this, but for those with broad sidebars, that would not constitute a problem.
Play around with it and tell me what you think!
Installation:
1. Copy daikosvideowidget.php and the daikosvideowidget directory to your /plugin/widgets/ folder
2. Activate the widget on your plugin-page.
3. Drag the Daiko’s Video widget to your sidebar and set a title + width and height (default is 200×170 and the example to the right is 160×150)
To edit the Video-list, open the txt file(s) in the daikosvideowidget directory and edit or add lines in the following format:
GoogleID (tab) Title (linebrake)
Do not add a linebrake after the last line…
Good Luck!
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