WP Smith

Creating WordPress & Genesis Websites Since 2010

How to Embed Videos at Different Sizes in Genesis (and other Themes)

Need to embed videos but hate the limitation that you cannot have the same post appear with the same video on different sizes? WordPress provides a little known filter (embed_defaults) that will enable you to easily change the height and width of an embeded object.


Currently, WordPress allows oEmbed by default, and it supports the following sites:

For any of these videos, you can support multiple widths so that the video is "full" content width. For example, check out these examples:

  • Video on my site on full-width
  • Video on my site on sidebar-content-sidebar
  • Video on my site on sidebar-content

So how did I do this? In HTML mode, I inserted the url 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2a8TRSgzZY

and clicked publish. Then in my functions.php file, I have this code:

*NOTE: In Genesis 1.8, this function will break the blog page template due to a bug that will hopefully be fixed in the next version.

In this function, we are filtering a WordPress function wp_embed_defaults() that creates default array of embed parameters when do_shortcode is used (which is applied to the_content).

For other themes, the code would be modified to use the standard WordPress conditionals.

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You still get all the great goodies of Premise 1.0's Landing Pages, including the following landing page templates:
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  • Sales Page
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All with easy to change styling (fonts, styles and colors), plus more custom arrows, buttons and other graphics.

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Now, in addition to all the great features you’ve already got, your can also use Premise to:
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Premise is now a complete digital sales and marketing system for WordPress. And even though I blog mostly about Genesis, it still works with any WordPress theme or framework.

To convert your site into a membership site using Premise, check the "Enable the membership module" checkbox.
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And Premise has made it easy to upload new digital products to sale.
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Premise comes packed with several shortcodes to create the bare essential membership pages via shortcodes! These include checkout pages (checkout-form), login pages (login-form), display product information for digital sales (product-title, product-description, product-price), and member profiles (member-profile and member-products as well as member-first-name, member-last-name).

Besides all of this, you also get some great information and training videos in their membership section. Tutorials include the following:
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    • Where can I learn more about how to use landing pages?
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    • How to Set Up Enhanced Social Sharing with Facebook?

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    • What are the shortcodes available for Premise?
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So why Premise?

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If it's the price, consider this: it will go up soon...

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