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Hello Support Team,
For some reason I can’t get the video carousel under single video posts to work.
I have the videos in a series and I am getting the GET parameters in the URL, but yet I don’t have the other two videos in my series displaying under the video.
Could there be something in the customization settings I’m missing?
Here is the page I’m working on http://bacdev.wpengine.com/astro-explorer-uprt-ep1/?vlogger_serie_in=972#!
Thanks for the help!
The carousel is now playing, but it’s pulling in ALL of the videos from the site.
Isn’t it just supposed to pull in the videos form the selected series? If not, is there a way to do that?
Thanks again for the help.
Hello blester, I just had a look at your website, and for safety I checked also the source code of the software.
Just to provide some tech details, once in the URL you are passing the series ID (?vlogger_serie_in=972) the extraction of the related videos below the main one is performed ONLY by series ID.
Anyway, if the current serie has only a few videos, to prevent displaying an empty row, we fill in the rest of the carousel using first the videos with similar categories, and then if they still are few, other videos by publish date.
The idea of this tempalte is to display other relevant content on a hierarchy based on relevance, but to always show something to allow a smoother navigation experience for the visitor.
This is what happens in this Video template, as its purpose is more targeted on blogs and aimed into extending the permanence of the visitor py offering more contents to read.
While for academic types of contents, where you are looking at a training video and waht to keep the related videos only within the serie, you can edit the posts and choose the Tutorial template, which will display the related video in the sidebar and ONLY the ones in same category.
This template allows the people to watch the video while scrolling the content, and is actually better for courses and similar.
So, if you wish to only display videos in same serie and you like the Tutorial template, you can switch it in the video settings.
If instead you want to keep the current design for your single post, but display only videos in same serie, as it’s not currently possible, it requires some code changes, because the code of the carousel is shared among other parts of the site.
We can provide help in that direction, but will need to ask you a couple of days for this, as it requires creating a new shortcode and modifying a couple of files.
Looking forward for your feedback wish you a good day.
Thanks
IgorThanks for getting back to me.
I would like to keep the same format for our material, and I will be adding more content. If I understand correctly, as I add more content to the series, the other videos in the carousel should be replaced with videos from the same series.
Am I correct about that?
If so, what would be the minimum number of videos I would need to upload to push out content from other series?
Also, should I reach out through a support ticket if I end up needing that custom shortcode?
Thanks again!
Hello and thanks for your kind feedback.
The minimum current amount of related videos in the serie is 12.
You can change this parameter by editing the video template, which is the filetemplate-video.php at line 29 adding
quantity="6"
Example
https://imgur.com/a/1ELYXKfBut if you change this to 6 and you have 12 in the carousel, they’ll be limited to 6 anyway.
About the custom shortcode, we can make the change in the next theme update, no problem, no need to open another ticket, I already have it marked down, just need to ask you a bit of patience cos we can’t schedule it till the next week.
Hope is ok for you,
regards
IgorPerfect Blester, thanks for your kind feedback.
I’ll schedule the activity for the beginning of next week and provide a file that allows to achieve this result for your site.Will contact you here once the resource is ready.
Best regards and have a nice day!
IgorHi Blester and thanks for your kind patience,
as promised I’m here with the custom function for your website.Please be sure you are using the child theme, as recommended in the manual, otherwise this will have no effect.
You can switch to the child theme anytime, but remember that it will require to set again logo, customizations and widgets.How to apply the custom file:
1) download this zipped file
https://www.dropbox.com/s/37b7myyvb6wnuoy/functions.php.zip?dl=0
2) Unzip it
3) Via FTP replace the functions.php in the child theme volder vlogger-child (NOT IN THE VLOGGER PARENT THEME FOLDER)
4)Copy template-video.php in the child theme
5) Edit line 28 and 28 changing “vlogger-videocarousel” to “vlogger-videocarousel-custom”If you experience any difficulty along the process please let me know
regards
Igor
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