Daiko’s Video Widget
Welcome to the home of Daiko’s Video Widget.
Daiko’s Video Widget is a Wordpress Widget that lets you randomly display your favourite videos from Google Video, YouTube and MySpace in your Sidebar on Widget-enabled Wordpress themes.
New in version 2.0 is:
- Full support for Google Video, YouTube and MySpace videos.
- Support for multiple versions of Daiko’s Video Widgets.
- Support for Wordpress Conditional Tags, meaning you can specify on what page(s)/post(s)/category the widget will be shown. Click the link above for more information on Conditional Tags.
- Automatic calculation of width or height dependent on format.
- Optional Title and Link where you can specify your own.
Download
>Download Daiko’s Video Widget 2.0.7.
Installation
- Download Daiko’s Video Widget and unzip.
- Drag daikosvideowidget.php to your /wp-content/plugins/widgets/ directory
- Activate Daiko’s Video Widget on your Plugins page
- Drag your new Daiko’s Video Widget to your sidebar and start adding content
If you are upgrading from any earlier version:
- Make a copy of your existing list of videos
- Deactivate the current version of Daiko’s Video Widget
- Overwrite the existing version of daikosvideowidget.php with the new one
- Activate the new Daiko’s Video Widget
- Place your new Widget and paste back your list of videos. (It is fully v 1.1 compatible)
- Have fun
Instructions
Most of the features are self-explanatory to the experienced user of widgets. Daiko’s Video Widget is at the outset also easy to configure. Actually it works without any options specified (the problem is that you will have to settle with my list of videos and a standard size of 200×180 pixels).
Title: Add the title of the widget.
Width: Specify the width in pixels. Default is 200. If Height is specified it is automatically calculated in accordance with the Format.
Height: Specify the height in pixels. Default is relative to the width of 200. If Width is specified it is automatically calculated in accordance with the Format.
Format: Indicates the main format of the videos. Assists in the automatic calculations of with and height respectively.
Note that in the example from the screen shot above, only width is specified. The height is calculated accordingly.
Videos: Add your videolist in the following format [MySpace, Google or YouTube ID]@[Title]@[Link] separated with new line between the videos. [Title] and [Link] are optional values. If Title is added it automatically links to the video on MySpace, Google Video and YouTube respectively. If in addition [Link] is added, the new link replaces the auto-link to the video sites. NEW in version 2.02: Put an * in front of your video ID to indicate that one particular video is in the 16:9 Widescreen format. This will override the Format setting.
Note in the example above that the various options can be mixed and that the only value needed is the video ID. Remember also that Google Video IDs may start with “-”.
Display only on: Specify whether the widget shall be displayed on all or just some part(s) of your blog. The drop down list gives you the options. On Post(s), Page(s) and Category you can limit it further by specifying the specific ID, slug or title of the post, page or category you want to show it on. The Home choice indicates that it will only be displayed on your home-page.
Slug/Title/ID: See above. To learn more about so called Conditional Tags. Read more here….
Use Google Simple Player: Check this box if you want to use the Google Video Player in Simple Mode. Good for narrow sidebars typically under 200px wide.
Have fun!
Dear users! I’m travelling so I’m not able to make the bug fix to remedy the error Dean points out in a posting earlier. But you can do it yourself by changing the check made in line 97. Change the number 18 in that line to 17. Hopefully that will fix it!
Daiko
The above bug-fix is now implemented in the downloadable version named v. 2.01. Enjoy!
Hi, i installed the plugin and activated it but cant find the control panel shown in the image above, can you provide me with any help
What is the ID for YouTube videos?
Here is an example URL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9QNb0OZshg&mode=related&search=
What code should I put into the widget?
Thanks
To Lee:
You will find the control panel on your widgets page (sub-menu of Presentation) and on the widgets with options you will have a button visible when placed in the sidebar column. Push that and you will get the widget control panel.
To Watchdog:
The YouTube ID in that link is everything between = and & that is: M9QNb0OZshg
Have fun!
Hi, I tried to remove the default videos and it broke your widget. So I just pasted my vids over your default videos and that seems to be working fine. The 200 default size doesn’t fit my theme so I changed it to 180. This breaks the Google Video player. So,now I’m just using Youtube which is fine. It works. I love this widget.
Hi TechTweaker,
I’m not sure that I understand your problem. The widget is programmed to use the widget control panel and not edit the code (I understand that you have made changes to the code, which is fine under GPL license). All the changes you mention are of course possible to change in the control panel. Adding your own videos will not include the default videos in the code. It will replace the defaults.
Adjusting width similarly will override the default.
Anyway I’m glad you like the widget!
I badly need this bar for my video-portfolio…
I mean, I wanna rewamp my website switching to wordpress, since seems lighter and will let me blog in an easier way.
But I have some problems..
Look at this:http//kurage-art.biz/wordpress/
All’I get to see is a white bar sayng loading…
Do you think it is a matther of theme??
hi i’m very interested to use this plug. but i don’t have widget in my wordpress theme.
actually i’have created a video category where i’ve posted some videos there. i would like to display those videos in my sidebar.
is it still possible for me to use the plug in
Hi Dakwah,
This is so far only available as a widget. I’m not even sure if I will do a plugin version with the same functionality. That said, my experience is that it is easier to through in widget support in a theme than rewrite the widget to a plugin. So if you need help with that, we can have a go at it.
Hello Daiko, I was wondering if you have any plans to allow a video playlist on the sidebar widget. I am using your widget now and it is great! I’d love the ability to multiple text links and one video screen.
- Woody
Exelente widget men!
Hi Daiko, this is a really cool widget! thanx, it works perfect. One minor problem I experienced using your widget but I don’t know if it’s something I’m doing wrong. I want the video title link to be redirected to a page on my wordpress blog. When I enter de url after the second @, and save it, the video won’t show up. am I doing something wrong? (maybe the use of “?” or “_” in my link)
Hi Woody,
Could you please elaborate a bit on your proposal?
Daiko
Hello cmyk,
It is a bit hard for me to tell what is happening since I haven’t seen the link. Could you send it to me, or post it here?
Daiko
Hello Daiko, I probably was to fast with my comment. Now the link within the wordpress blog works well. I think it was because of the buffering time in googlevideo that was causing a stop in displaying the video. Thanx!
I was wondering how you could sort the videos according to date. It would difintely be a helpful feature to add if it’s not present.
Hi Trilok,
I guess your comment goes to http://www.daikos.net/daikos-google-videobar/ and the search results.
The answer is no on that widget. The sorting options through the Google AJAX search API are limited to relevance. I’ve been working on a concept of using RSS-feeds instead of the search API, but I’m not there yet. That would be sortable on date and an alternative to using the search API. Keep on coming back….
Hello!
When I installed the widget I get this error message
Warning: Missing argument 1 for widget_videos_control() in /********/***/**/wp-content/plugins/widgets/daikosvideowidget.php on line 19
Thank you for your help.
Hi Alexander,
I’ll write in english allthough I know you speak scandinavian.
I think you’ll be fine if you scroll down on the widgets page and hit save next to where you specify the number of Video Widgets you want.
Test that and I’ll have a go at correcting that. Good Luck!
Hi, i installed the plugin and activated it but cant find the control panel shown in the image above, can you provide me with any help
I can’t find a widget page? What do I need to do?
I love your plug in, but my current theme does not play well with widgets, what piece of code do I need to stick between my sidebar divs to pull up your random videos? I can get it to pull one video, but not at random. Could you lend me a hand and let me know which portion of the code I need to copy?
Hi Robert,
I’ve been considering a plugin for a while, but haven’t come around to make it. I’m affraid it is a bit more complicated than just copying parts of the code. What exactly is the problem with the widgets in your theme? Solving that would probably be easier.
I would be so happy if this widget could display local video files off my server instead of youtube, google, etc.
is there any way I can do that?
thanks!
Great plugin, working great. For some reason, though, I can only get mine to display one video at a time. Any clues? Thanks!
Hi Daiko,
i’m using a wordpress video plugin to include videos in posts with the following code: [youtube id].
Is there any possibility to show the latest posted video automatically in your sidebar widget?
Thanks for the cool plugin.
hello,
I really like your plugin but I need something a little bit different. I need to show video, mostly locally not from youtube or other external services inside my sidebar…
maybe having them link to certain posts?
doesn’t really matter,…
do you know of another plugin I could use to show a small video in the sidebar or several? either clickable to play or clickable to open a post containing the latest video?
or maybe something like a photogallery for videos?
I’d love to hear from you, any suggestion is welcome.
Great widget…however it stops playing after a couple seconds. I wait for the whole video to load, and it still stays stopped. Is there an adjustment I need to make? Thaks again!
Got the timing problem figured out…a simple reboot. NOW I need to adjust the width of the NAME OF VIDEO…if its too many characters to wraps around to the next line. Is there anyway to adjust this?
i clic on the small button but anything happens and i can’ configure the widget :S
You need to add the option for a break between the title and the video itself, it is all blended on my page and looks bad.
Hi Daiko,
Great widget. Am really looking forward to using this.
I’m having a problem getting multiple videos to display, however. I’ve tried a space between entries in the list and also carriage returns. Not sure what I’m doing wrong. Any tips?
Thanks,
Dan
Great widget! How do I get more than one instance of the widget to play on my blog? I want to have several videos for the reader to choose from.
Thanks!
Hi, i installed the plugin and activated it but cant find the control panel shown in the image above, can you provide me with any help
I’ve been considering a plugin for a while, but haven’t come around to make it
I wait for the whole video to load, and it still stays stopped. Is there an adjustment I need to make? Thaks again!
I’d love to hear from you, any suggestion is welcome
This has to be my favorite plugin for Wordpress. Simple yet elegant in its design. I have no complaints whatsoever.
However, I have a request. Lately, I’ve been watching more and more videos from this site (http://www.gamevideos.com/) and would like to include them as well with the other videos. Any chance this could be added to existing code or as a similar yet separate plugin?
Thank you for your excellent coding skills and vision.
Aweome widget… Question: How do I get more than one video to display? I have a list but it only shows one at a time. It rotates through the list on refresh but can I have them lined up beneath each other in the sidebar?
When I try to add other video widgets from the widget control panel and hit save, I get an error message:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: widget_text_register() in /home/iphoneta/public_html/wp-content/plugins/dvw_2_05/daikosvideowidget.php on line 274
What is that about?
Will you support additional video sharing sites such as Metacafe?
I’ve installed this on other blogs and it works fine… but on my iphonetattler.com word press blog (version 2.2)… when I try to add other video widgets I get:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: widget_text_register() in /home/iphoneta/public_html/wp-content/plugins/dvw_2_05/daikosvideowidget.php on line 274
Been waiting for an answer
Help!
Is it possible to use this with Vimeo?
If not, could you update it so it would take Vimeo videos?
Hello, I have tried to install your nice widget to upload a video from YouTube, but it doesn’t work.
I have used it here:
to upload this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1EdY1t8mbw
With these data:
Title > Our videos
Width, Height > empty
format 4:3
Videos: [YouTube g1EdY1t8mbw]
Display: All
ID: empty
But the “call”of my browser just freezes looking for video.google instead than YouTube..
Thanks for any help ciao!
Hi i am using yout plugin with wordpress version 2.2.1 German and the Mandigo Theme .
I saved it in the widgets folder und activated in in my plugins menu.
It is also Displayed on the Widgets Menu and i can move it into my sidebar, but i can t get trough to the options menu it simply doesn t open at all like its shown on your screenshot above, but i don t know why, i already tried it in ie 6 and firefox 2.
perhaps you already got a solution for this issue.
Nice work man!
Simple and easy.. love it!
Thanks!
Martino
Hi nice plugin i don’t know how to put the video i want yet but i need to read if somebody can help me
Really nice work! I’ll try to use it. Thanks
Hello…
Love the Widget and use it currently on our LP Breaking News Blog.
I currently am displaying 9 videos and occasionally some will be missing.
Please assist.
Thanks
Thanks for the cool plug-in. After dinking around w/ it for a bit I got it to work on my new Word Press website - The Saints Nation
Check it out–> http://thesaintsnation.com
Thanks again,
Michael
I was wondering how several pages or post get written in to the widget. Do I separate each ID with a space, or comma?
Thanks
I love this plugin when everything seems to be working. However, I’ve had two issues:
1) I can’t seem to get multiple videos to display on one instance of the plugin (I play with spaces and various characters). No luck. So, when I need, I run multiple instances of the plug-in, each displaying one video. Which seems to exacerbate problem #2
2) Especially for users outside of the United States, having video(s) on my sidebar does seem to increase load times. Again, this only seems to be a problem for users outside of the U.S. I’m displaying YouTube videos only.
my site, for example: http://www.uncorneredmarket.com/
Thanks,
Dan
I can’t seem to get multiple videos to display on one instance of the plugin (I play with spaces and various characters). No luck. So, when I need, I run multiple instances of the plug-in, each displaying one video. Which seems to exacerbate problem #2
Nice work man!
Simple and easy.. love it!
Thanks!
I was wondering how several pages or post get written in to the widget. Do I separate each ID with a space, or comma?
I have an idea for you. It’s a good idea, I think, and since I don’t have the time or expertise to do it you may as well. If you could make a video widget for the desktop, that would be cool. A sort of RSS feed of the latest videos on the net, and that you can play straight off the desktop. That would actually be pretty cool. I fact, that’s what I thought this was when I saw the site name, but it obviously didn’t turn out to be that. At any rate, I think it’s a pretty cool idea.
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It is possible to make the default volume as loud as possible? The default is just below minimum, now. Thanks for any way to fix this…
Hi packfill,
I don’t think the volume is controlable through the code. I just tested your website (http://www.theseattlespecialist.com/) and the volume is maximum when I play the video. It might have something to do with the level you had when you last visited YouTube. I tried to mute the sound, exit from your page, and then return. The result was that the sound was muted. So regard this as a YouTube feature, not a bug.
Daiko
Hi,
As soon as i removed the default videos the widget stopped working, i’ve tried everything but now the widget only displays a blank box.
tried uninstalling and reinstalling but no luck.
any suggestions?
Joel
Hi–I have entered about six videos I can’t get the videos to alternate beyond the first two—wussup?
id#@title@url
Does the title have to exactly match the one given on Youtube?
Thanks. Great job!
Hi Ernie,
No, the title is totally independent of the YouTube title. You might have a syntax error.
Can you post your videolist? or maybe send it to me? rune[at]daikos.net
Great! Fabulous! Superb piece of work on this widget, Daiko!
Thank you for taking the time and energy to create it. Works like a charm with/for all my 8-10 Google Videos!
Thanks again for your creativity.
I am having trouble getting more than one video to go on m sidebar. Any suggestions?
I love the video widget! It’s exactly what I am looking for. Does anyone know if there is a way to modify the widget so that it will autoplay youtube videos?
Thanks!
Hi Coach30,
To make the YouTube videos autoplay you can do the following in line 146 that in v2.07 reads as follows:
$mediavalue = implode('',array($murl,$pieces[0]));
To the following:
$mediavalue = implode('',array($murl,$pieces[0],’&autoplay=1′));
Good Luck!
I’ve got the plugin working and it autoplays, thanks! I have two more issues, then I’m ready to launch the website.
1. Intermittently, almost randomly, the movie will not load. You should be able to replicate this by refreshing your browser numerous times. For the life of me I can’t figure out what is causing this. It seems the player will load, but no movie.
2. Is there an easy way to bypass the active X issues with the IE browsers?
Here is my staging site:
Thanks for all of your help!
Hi Coach30,
1. This is probably because you have an ending empty line somewhere in the list of videos. Be sure to check if you accidentally added an ekstra line brake after the last video. (I’m going to fix that so it checks that automatically)
2. Can’t help you on the active X thing in IE. I’m a sworn Mac user and don’t have immediate access to a Windows machine. My guess is that the active X settings are supposed to be controlled by the user only so a web-site is not able to bypass that.
Love your site by the way!
Hi Daiko,
Thank you for providing this great widget. Is there any way to play flv videos on my server instead of youtube/google/etc videos?
Hi dheru,
Sorry, but I haven’t added that requested feature. May include it in a not too distant future though.
You’re still the man (or woman as the case may be) in my book!
Love this widget! I’ve just installed a three-column theme and the video widget is too big. Is there an easy way to resize it? Here is the site: http://www.motivationalreview.com
Thanks!
Oops, I put up my wrong URL, it’s http://www.motivationalreview.net
Is there an easy way to resize the player to fit in the sidebar?
Thanks again!
Hi Matt,
Specify width in the widget control panel. Don’t specify height if you don’t know the exact height, that is leave it empty.
I guess 180 is fine. Default is 200.
Hope that helps…
Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array in C:\wamp\www\wp-content\plugins\daikos-video-widget\daikosvideowidget.php on line 31
First, love the plugin. Just moved web boxes and installed the updated WAMP with PHP5 and MySQL. When I try to pull up the widget and look at the text I get this.
Thanks for your assistance.
Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array in C:\directory\www\wp-content\plugins\daikos-video-widget\daikosvideowidget.php on line 31
First, love the plugin. Just moved web boxes and installed the updated WAMP with PHP5 and MySQL. When I try to pull up the widget and look at the text I get this.
Thanks for your assistance.
Daiko, are you still out there? Would love to use this plugin again. Please help when/if you can.
I guess 180 is fine. Default is 200.
If I make a title for my widget it doesn’t add add a double linebreak for the title of the youtube video. How can I add an extra line break to the php code?
thanks for article
Daiko,
Thanks for the time spent creating this little marvel. Do you know how I can put a picture on the
different video selection buttons. I defined five youtube videos that show under the 200×200 video widget
they all work perfect but they show up as an empty
box with a small play arrow in them. I thought they
might have a little micro pic of the video, but they are empty. Here is where you can see what I mean.
http://www.qualitycage.net/wordpress
Thanks again though, Great tool.
Scott.
Hi Scott,
It seems that you have used a bit more than the Video ID in your video-list. You have for example:
OPz2MYp67ic&hl=en/
Instead of just:
OPz2MYp67ic
Remove the extra info from your video-IDs and you’ll be fine! The small video pictures will appear automagically.
Good luck!
First, love the plugin. Just moved web boxes and installed the updated WAMP with PHP5 and MySQL. When I try to pull up the widget and look at the text I get this.
This is really cool. I have lots of videos uploaded at YouTube. I wanted to transfer them to my WP blog but I can’t do it. Thanks to this tool. This will really eat much of my blogging time always.
Love the Widget
Since I am using it in a sidebar is there a way when you click on it that it can open into a larger screen?
Thanks in advance
This is an amazing widget and really love it.
You may want to add the following codes:
wmode=”transparent” (in the object tag) and
(in between the object tags)
so that the widget will not float above other flash object.
I noticed a double “<<” at line 141.
<<param name=”Align” value=”"
Is that a typo error?
Thank you for a widget, it’s a great tool. I would like to be able to specify which video clip should play first, rather than have the widget pick one randomly from the list. The reason for this is that I use video clips as part of the news, not the random entertainment… but I don’t know if Daiko’s Video Widget can be ‘programed’ to allow the order of the videos played, or at least the first video to be ‘on top’ of the others (until another one is specified as the ‘first’).
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks for the great tool again!
Cool Widget, I use to show it in the middle of my home page using widget_videos(), but now with WP 2.6.2 I get an error “Warning: Missing argument 1 for widget_videos(), called in /home/poli…/public_html/wp-content/themes/Zeke10/home.php on line 87 and defined in /home/polipopt/public_html/wp-content/plugins/daikos-video-widget/daikosvideowidget.php on line 81
Warning: extract() [function.extract]: First argument should be an array in /home/poli…/public_html/wp-content/plugins/daikos-video-widget/daikosvideowidget.php on line 83″
How can i use it again without enable it into the sidebar?
I finally got more than one YouTube video to rotate as the site refreshes by placing this in the widget:
[YouTube ID]@[Title]
[YouTube ID]@[Title]
Mine works great this way. Love the plugin, one of my favorites.
I am getting error while extracting the zip file
Will this work for schooltube.com?
thank you
Awsome..
But i’m sorry i’m still confuse about the configuration. where can i get the ID [Yoyutube, Google, etc] also where can i know the title ? is it from video title of Youtube for example that placed above the screen ? Last question, is the link from the URL or what ? it’s nice if you explain it with some pictures if you don’t mind …
Thanks so much, im waiting 4 ur answer.
According to the instructions: 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)
However I don’t understand how you are supposed to drag a widget to the sidebar. As the admin, I can activate the widget, but then what steps do I need to do exactly to “drag” the widget?
Well apparently WordPress has changed the way you install widgets in the sidebar. I found out how to do that. However in the widget box when I insert the “embed” code and click “Done”, nothing appears on the site, just the title.
Can anybody figure out if I am doing this right?
Google Video, MySpace und YouTube anzeigen.
Im Adminbereich kannst du deine eigenen Videoliste anlegen.
Syntax: [MySpaceID/Google video …
Hi Daiko,
Love this widget! But can’t seem to get it to work. Trying to pull from youtube. Here’s what I have in the widget in addition to title, width 300 and format 4:3.
[VXDFJSMVdPM]@[E TRADE Baby Outtakes Superbowl 2009]
Here’s what shows on my site
Random Video
[E TRADE Baby Outtakes Superbowl 2009]
Video Widget by Daiko
Any ideas?
Regards
Harun
hi guys, I am trying to install a tool that you have on the home page (12 videos, each opens in new window), can you please tell me how to configure the widget in order to get that effect.
(now it shows only one video at a time and it opens in the same window)
Thanks a lot
That would be sortable on date and an alternative to using the search API. Keep on coming back….
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Beschreibung:
Zeigt in der Sidebar zufällig ausgewählte Videos deiner Wahl an.
Du kannst dabei Videos von Google Video, MySpace und YouTube anzeigen.
Im Adminbereich kannst du deine eigenen Videoliste anlegen
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Hi, i installed the plugin and activated it but cant find the control panel shown in the image above, can you provide me with any help