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A Wordpress theme to trasform your blog into a YouTube-like websiteCurrent version: 01.02/2009-03-09VideographEx is a theme for Wordpress blog platform. This theme transforms your blog into a YouTube-like website with a layout thought for distribution of multimedia contents Using this theme you can distribute video locally uploaded or just available on some video platform such as
This theme makes some changes in your blog homepage to show, for every post, non only title and excerpt but also thumbnail of the first video in the post. Thumbnail has taken directly from external video platform when available. This image shows the standard theme layout with some videos posted. If external video platform doesn’t support thumbnail (only MySpace at this time) or you don’t like default thumbnail or your post doesn’t have video, theme give you alternative methods to select a thumbnail. Another change makes by theme involves the post page. Here the first video included in the post is always shown at the top of the post wherever you put this video when create post. This gives your site a look and feel similar to other video platform such YouTube. Include videos in you post is simple too. This theme use Viper’s quicktag plug-in to add to Wordpress editor a toolbar with support for many external video provider and include a video is so simple as copy and paste the URL video you see in the address bar when you see video in the remote site. If you want more information about theme feature, you can take a look to this video. If you want to take a more inside look, there is a demo website that use this theme. How to installThis theme must be installed on an empty blog. I don’t suggest to install it on an existing blog with posts. First of all you must install Viper’s quicktag plugin. This is a standard wordpress plugin so you can install it directly from your plugin page in the admin panel. I’d also suggest getting Lester Chan’s WP PostRatings plugin as it allows users to rate your videos and adds a lot to the site. This is another standard plugin so you can install and activate directly from admin panel. This is an official Wordpress theme so you can download it from the offical Wordpress theme directory or directly install it from your admin panel. Else you can download this theme from here and unzip it in wp-content/themes Wordpress folder or uncompress all files in your local computer and upload them in your remote website via FTP under a folder wp-content/themes/VideographEx. Then, go to your themes manager under admin panel and activate this theme. Create an empty page called “Archives” and apply the XHTML Sitemap template to the page. In other words, in Wordpress, click on “Write”, and then below that click on “Page”. You want to create a new page, not a post. Make the title of this page “Archives”. You don’t have to add any other text or anything. Just scroll down until you see a section called “Page Template”. Click it and then click the drop-down box there and you should see xhtmlsitemap as an option. Select that and publish the page. This will give the top navigation link “Categories:” a destination. As an alternative to the stable archive above, you can install a development version of this plugin directly from its SVN location. Change to the 'themes' directory and install the plug from SVN svn co https://svn.micso.net:666/bruni/wp/VideoGraphEx/trunk/VideoGraphEx VideoGraphEx If all this seems confusing, take a look at this video that shows how to install VideographEx on a fresh Wordpress. How to upgradeFirst of all, take a look to ChangeLog for changes between your version and the latest.From 1.1 to 1.2A few changes in this upgrade. If you are not interested in left-header logo image you can simply overwrite functions.php inside your theme directory and nothing of your graphics will change and you will have support for f4v thumbnail.
In his forum Viper informs that it's just enable, in his standard plugin, the possibility to activare mod_h264_streaming using this sintax: [flv flashvars="streamer=lighttpd"]http://yourdomain/youpath/youvideofile.f4v[/flv] DownloadGenesiThis theme comess from a parent theme called Videograph and developed by ZoomStart. VideographEx inherts from its parent the general idea of trasform a blog into a multimedia distribution website and the general layout of index and post pages. But VidegrapherEx try to complete some lacks of the origin theme. As an example, Videgraph support only YouTube video and no videos from other sites while VideographEx support many more videos as explained above. Besides Videgraph use custom field to select the video to embed VidegraphEx use Viper’s quicktime that, almost for me, are more intuitive, simple to use and to mantain. VideographEx shares however more code with Videograph and, in fact, VideographEx is backward compatible with Videograph syntax so if you have a blog with Videograph and wish to upgrade to VideographEx you can do without lost your videos. Thanks to Shane of ZoomStart CreditsThis a modding of ZoomStart Videograph theme. Thanks to Shane for having shared his code with us via GPL license. Without his theme, this theme shouldn’t be born. JavaScript Menu Courtesy of Milonic.com |
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Hello Emiliano
I downloaded your VideographEx and I installed yo my server. Ok works fine but I cant see the "CUSTOM FIELDS" table...
Where is it???
Hi Ignasi.
"Custom fields" are configurable during editing of a post, at the bottom of the edit page.
Take a look at this snapshot
http://flickr.com/photos/27545546@N00/3294238601/
Hoping this helps you
OK, I had to add the "video_thumb" parameter...
Ok now it works!!! Thanks and gratz for ur nice theme!!!!!!
Hello Emilliano,
How might I add a logo to the right of the header text in VideographEx?
It's a great theme, and I'm starting to use it.
You can modify header.php inside VideographEx folder to add your logo or modify every elements in the pages header. Take a look now at
http://www.devtv.eu/vgex-demo/
for an example of website with a logo to the left of text header. In the same way, you can add a logo to the right.
I have create a real website with VideographEx, a webTv for my town
http://tv.controguerra.info/wp/
Hello Emiliano. Love the theme.
Can you let me know how to include a thumbnail for a flash video?
Thanks so much
Hi yaniv. If your flash video is located here
http://www.your_domain.com/path/video.flv
and you create a video.jpg screenshot of your video and you put this image in the same path of your flash video like
http://www.your_domain.com/path/video.jpg
a thumbnail will be included automatically using your image.
Tell me if this solve your doubt.
Hello,
Thank you but, why layout crash only IE (internet Explorer) and single post. For example
http://theanimationchefs.com/?p=36
Here, with Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.11 in italian under XP Home italian, no problem to see your page.
Can you give me your environment (Internet Explorer version, operating system...) so I can reproduce your problem?
Hello ,
Please Add Fullscreen Option For Metacafe also
The Metacafe viewer is part of Viper's quicktag plugin so you can ask Viper for this feature.
Viper's quicktag plugin website is
http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/
Viper's forum is:
http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/forums/viewforum.php?id=23
Hello Emiliano,
Thank you for the great theme. I have added videos from YouTube, blip.tv and others.
However, videos from Vimeo do not show as thumbnails. You only get a grey box. Is there special code for Vimeo?
Hi, Phil, as you can see here
http://www.devtv.eu/vgex-demo/page/2/
my example of Vimeo thumbnail works fine. Can you supply me an example URL where Vimeo video thumbnail is not working so I can reproduce your problem and find what's wrong.
@ emiliano, you theme works great under 2.7.1 but not on wp 2.6.5 and one more thing you forgot a $ for title in functions.php row 179
return '
The url is www.datingvidz.com. You can see the first video dooes not have a thumbnail. The img src
tag is blank.
Also, I could see the Custom Fields, but I do not have a field named vids. When I try to enter "vids" as a new custom field, I get this error message: "An unidentified error has occurred."
I'm using Wordpress 2.7.1.
@Phil, it's a bug of Vimeo API. I send a bug report here
http://www.vimeo.com/forums/topic:11826
However, in the SVN repository there is an updated version that bypass this problem as you can also see in VideoGraphEx online demo.
If you wish to try to solve your problem before I publish a new version, you can download new function.php from here
https://svn.micso.net:666/svnweb/index.cgi/bruni/browse/Wordpress/VideographEx/trunk/VideographEx/
and overwrite your version.
Let me know if this solves your problem.
Hi Emiliano, Thanks for this great theme. For weeks I was trying to figure out how to make a video blog and Videographex is perfect for my first website.
Is there any way to remove "related videos" at the end of a YouTube clip?
@Alan
Yes, it's possible and it's very simple. If you want to remove related videos only in a video, add a "rel=0" attribute into [youtube] tag. As an example
[youtube rel="0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENihaFoZh_g[/youtube]
If you want to disable this youtube feature for all your youtube video you can go to the wordpress admin page, settings, video quicktags, and, at the end of this page you found various configuration and the one to disable related videos (I don't know what's the name of this setting in english because I have configured wordpress in italian language).
Hoping this can helps you.
Hi Emiliano,
I got a Page Load Error when I clicked the link - it said the site was using an invalid security certificate.
I will wait until you publish a new version. Thanks.
Hello Emilliano ,
How Can I embedd My own player to play videos....
Hi, Great theme.
But is it possible to move one sidebar to the left?
Is there anyway to get revver.com built into this theme? I have been using revver and am very impressed with them. I would also be willing to offerup my server for development if needed.
hi Jim.
Videos are included using Viper's quicktag plugin so you can ask Viper for your feature.
Viper's quicktag plugin website is
http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/
Viper's forum is:
http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/forums/viewforum.php?id=23
Ci sono diversi siti web , che al meno a me no vanno bene: Veoh, Vimeo, Dailymotion, google, flickr.......
Solo 5 siti sono correcti, puo darse che io habbia fatto qualcosa male
www.nosologames.net/videos
@Simon
Of course. You can modify index.php and styles.css, include
< ? p.h.p. include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar2.php'); ? >
and
< ? p.h.p. include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar3.php'); ? >
wherever you want in the index.php template. Of course, p.h.p. without dots :-D
Hello, all fans of Videographer and VideographerEx i would like to announce the new free theme that evolved from the VideographerEX named WP-Tube Premium it is free and avaliable for download on http://wptube.jrwebstudio.com
Hi Emiliano,
Your theme works great for me except when I add a veoh or vimeo file. It shows the video on the post page but in the index page, it breaks the post loop as soon it reaches one of this videos. I am using wordpress 2.6.2
Any idea?
@Fallo, is it possible to see an example of this problem?
@Emiliano.
Yes, you can go to :
http://kbug.freehostia.com/wordpress
The first is a Viddler video. The next one (which breaks PHP) is a Veoh one. If I unpublish the Veoh one, then all of the 30 posts get parsed well and the SideBar and Footer apperars. Right now I know that works YouTube, MetaCafe and Viddler; doesn't work Veoh, Vimeo, GoogleVideo
@Fallo
I noticed the good ones get their thumbnail directly from their url. The bad ones get their thumbnail via other web resources (xml, json,...) retrieved using the fopen PHP function.
Try to see if fopen is enabled in your website.
@Emiliano
I made a simple page running phpInfo and uploaded it:
http://kbug.freehostia.com/phpinfo.php
You can see there that 'allow_url_fopen' is enabled.
BTW I am using PHP Version 4.4.8. With CPanel in my host, I have the alternative to upgrade to PHP5. Maybe this can help...
@Fallo
I'm preparing a little PHP script to test where is your problem
Hi Emiliano,
Thanks so much for the theme- its really nice! Do you have any idea why when i click on "Categories:" in the navigation bar I would get to an error page that says the following:
"Not Found
The requested URL /archives was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/1.3.37 Server at skaist.com Port 80"
I tried thgis with a fresh install and I can't get past this for some reason. If you have any idea what it could be I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks!
Philip
Philip
Dear Emiliano,
Can you publish or send me VideographEx with YAML, like you have it on devtv.eu? It would fit my page much better than normal theme.
how to change color of top nav the categories
Hello Emiliano. Thanks for your great theme.
Just a question: is there a possibility to embed videos from a site such as Blogger, instead from those sites such as YouTube and the others?
Thank you
Alex
Ron Posted:
How Can I embedd My own player to play videos....
Hi Emiliano, i am also wondering the same thing, could u add this feature in, the ability to use our own player with our own setting to play the videos?
Thanks for your kick ass work .
I've an great idea :D.
Maybe you can embed the Wp-PostView plugin to your design. I think it can be fun for people to see how often their video has been watched.
http://lesterchan.net/wordpress/readme/wp-postviews.html
nice template
Chau Emiliano"
Bon giorno. E tu Videographex e molto bene, Gratzie!
I need help to add a video_thumb in all my videos. The videos are SWF. How can I do it? Also when you play them they play twice at the same time. Why?
CLA
Hi there!!!
I want to add a thumb with a link to external site. No video on it, just a link to other site.
I can add a thumb (via video_thumb) but I can't assign an external link on it or a link in the title post.
This will be great if you want to post just an external link as a notice. Ex: A thumb of Michael Jackson and a link to his official site.
Been looking for something like this, I just installed and made apost but how do you add pics?
Hi Emiliano,
i think there is a mistake in the comments.php and the div-containers are not well closed, if comments are off!
Solution: move the from line 80 81 at the End after the endif´s
Thanks for this theme, I am using it on the url posted.
Just to say I have modified it to a single column and switched off comments.
I found that using tags on index and archive caused an overlap in the display in Internet Explorer so I have removed them from those pages and placed them in the single post php page.
Thanks for the theme!
thank you for nice wp theme.
great job dear, thanks
i will use it at Facebook Tube
thanks, i will use it at
Facebook Tube
@Emiliano
Hi,
I am using your gret at theme at facebooktube.info
but there is no thubnail with metacafe videos.
I'm not an expert of code or whatever. Please tell me like to a very beginner how to change or remove the logo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice job, man!
How can I make a custom field like "video_thumb" so I can link to other sites for the thumb? ex: url_thumb. thanks
Hello and thanks for creating this theme. We are using it on a website at the school where I work. I do not know how to add a thumbnail from a video file that we upload directly to the site. Can you please give me some advice?
Hello Emiliano,
Thank you for the great theme.
dear Emiliano,i am from canada, i like you theme,i installed it it s cool but when i upgrade my wp from 2.7 to 2.81, all seem doesn't work anymore, can you help me ?thanks
Hello,
Thanks for this great theme. Really nice.
But i have 1 pb with single.php and password form (to protect article by password) my right sidebar don't stay in right place. May you tell me more about it ?
Thx for help.
Regards
Eric from France
Hi Emiliano, I'm playing with the new functionality of wordpress 2.9: oEmbed. The problem is that I can't take videos with thumbnails of VideographEx. Have you tried it with oEmbed?
Gretz from Argentina
www.xlatam.com.ar
thank you for nice wp theme.
Hello Sir,
Firstly, congrats for your great Job.
Im building a website with live channels TV, i tried to use your videographex but i dont had sucess on it...
how can i do it with your theme, i like very much..
thankyou and congrats.
Great addition to Video originals theme, though i wanted to know in sidebar2 and 3 php i wanted to set it to allow your modifying set for recent videos and latest video, BUT i also want the addition of widgets i choose in the widget selection menu
any ideas or help woll be appreciated
http://blindedmice.co.cc/bmrs
Nice looking theme Emiliano, thanks alot for this.
Hello Emiliano,
If it's not too much to ask, could you tell me whether it is possible to make the posts succeed one another horizontally and if it is, which file should be changed? I've been trying to do it with css but no luck
Thanks
Hello Emiliano. Love the theme.
Can you let me know how to include a thumbnail for a flash video?
Thanks so muc
Hi,
I wanna add follow me on twitter and FB buttons. Could you tell me how to do that for your skin?
Perry
Thanks and gratz for ur nice theme..
Works very Good for me. Thanks for this nice theme :)
Please Add Fullscreen Option For Metacafe also
You can modify header.php inside VideographEx folder to add your logo or modify every elements in the pages header. Take a look now at
ok my web city add the videu thumd parametrer but thanks gratz!
Hello ,
Please Add Fullscreen Option For Metacafe also
thank you for nice wp theme.
I am so impressed w/evernote so far. really pro stuff. thx folks
nice template
hi. emilliona..
but videographex opengl ? please help.
emilino.. hi..
please.. video converter programs ? your go to programs.
Thanks and gratz for ur nice theme .
this is a very nice theme, excellent work and thanks too
thanks for you. add reseller sites. cool videographex
thankss very good a
Hi,
it's beatiful theme.
But is it possible to change the header?
Il tema così bello,
Mi piace questo ..
grazie molto per questo ......
nice plugin i need that one thanks for that you are awesome
Is it possible to add a 300x300 video to the ad_sidebar.php file? I have the template customized to my liking and the last thing I would like is to have a single video to sit in the same area as the 336x300 ad. The two would be separated by breaks but it gives me the ability to have a single featured video which is needed for this particular site.
nevermind. turns out all I needed to do was embed the code into the ad_sidebar.php file. All is well now.
Dear Emiliano,
Can you publish or send me VideographEx with YAML, like you have it on devtv.eu? It would fit my page much better than normal theme.
Great theme thatk you
If I may suggest adding this video site if possible.
http://www.overstream.net/
It gives the opportunity to add subtitles to videos from many other sites. But I do not know how to retrieve the thumbnail.
If such a thing can be added it would be great.
Anyways great theme thank you again
A really smart theme.
The only thing missing is the ability to put one sidebar either side, and to have a gallery at the top.
http://www.uk-boating.tv
Hello Emiliano. Love the theme.
Can you let me know how to include a thumbnail for a flash video?
Thanks so much
Congratulations on a sharing was very nice, I'm waiting for the continuation of work.
Thanks...
Hi, I use your theme, it's look great.
I want to install wp-pagenavi into it but it's not work :(
VideographEx is backward compatible with Videograph syntax so if you have a blog with Videograph and wish to upgrade to VideographEx you can do without lost your videos.
ciao , ho scarricato il tuo template mha l'ho instalato direttamente su wordpress, e c'ha quell logo di DEVTV.EU come faccio a scambiarlo? non trovo niente per farlo scomparire dai un'occhiatta www.areafreak.com se il sito non va dalla prima premmi rinfresca per qualche volte velocemente, scusa per il mio italiano :D
ciao come faccio a cambiare il colore dall menu nero in giu? voglio fare le pagini griggie
Hello ,
Please Add Fullscreen Option For Metacafe also
Thanx very good text.
Forever ebruni site.
Thanks for the steps for installing videopgraphex worked fine for me.
I have create a real website with VideographEx, a webTv for my town
Ok now it works!!! Thanks and gratz for ur nice theme!!!!!!
you theme works great under 2.7.1 but not on wp 2.6.5 and one more thing you forgot a $ for title in functions.php row 179
Hello i love this theme and the way it functions
only 1 question is there a way to have it show four videos per row instead of 1
thanks again
come faccio a cambiare il colore dall menu nero in giu? voglio fare le pagini griggie
Hello Emiliano,
I got a Page Load Error when I clicked the link - it said the site was using an invalid security certificate.
you can go to the wordpress admin page, settings, video quicktags
Megavideo.com ???? :(
Please Add Fullscreen Option For Metacafe also
How can I actually embed the vids? Thanks.
Thank you admin good article
Hello Emilliano ,
How Can I embedd My own player to play videos.
thank you very much good works...good video
good days...ebruni.it succesfull
Thanks for the sharing about web design.
i am recently use alot of videos embedding from YouTube, the biggest video sharing website on the Internet for my wordpress video tutorials.So,this theme is right for me.
the theme VideographEx has at least a faulty comments.php template.
Your theme works great for me except when I add a veoh or vimeo file. It shows the video on the post page but in the index page, it breaks the post loop as soon it reaches one of this videos. I am using wordpress 2.6.2
Thank you for the great theme.
Thanks for this valuable information which really helped me a lot. I would like to point out that this site does not get loaded very correctly in IE6. Please check the css.
Very cool theme, I will use it on my blog now.
Thank for share.
I cant see the custom fields Whats up?
You can modify header.php inside VideographEx folder to add your logo or modify every elements in the pages header. Take a look now at
hello how r u?
i need little help with ur theme
?
i am facing a problum with in sigle post page
eg. sidebar is shown below post in single post ?
any one help me plzzz..
Hello. Great theme! I was wondering if you knew how to change the background so its not white. Is there an image I can overwrite or do I need to put it in code? Please advise!
Can you let me know how to include a thumbnail for a flash video?
Thanks so muc
I have create a real website with VideographEx, a webTv for my town
I am very new to this so excuse my basic question! I want to add my logo where the sample logo is, where exactly do I put that in the code? I've loaded the image into my library as a PNG but don't see an option to select it. Thank you for your help!
Hello Emiliano,
Thank you for the great theme.
I like this theme
Hello ,
Please Add Fullscreen Option For Metacafe also
dove trovo lo stesso articolo in italiano?
Ciao, non c'è in italiano. Ma se hai qualche dubbio, chiedimi e cercherò di aiutarti in italiano.
I downloaded your VideographEx and I installed yo my server. Ok works fine but I cant see the "CUSTOM FIELDS" table...
Where is it???
Thank you for sharing it ! Very nice..
Hi Emiliano,
Thank you for this useful theme. I hope one day i can create works like this.
Greetings from Benjamin.
For those who are looking for the custom fields, as of WP 3.1, they are no longer shown by default. See this the following for the fix: http://ottopress.com/2011/wp-quickie-metaboxes/
I'm not an expert in the code or what. Tell me as a very beginner, how to edit or delete the logo
Wow, this is how simple to integrate WP themes into Youtube like pages. I would love to make my personal site like this.
Great template. Thanks for your hard work.
OK, I had to add the "video_thumb" parameter...
Ok now it works!!! Thanks and gratz for ur nice theme!!!!!
Hi Emiliano!
Thanks for this theme is awesome however just wanted to ask you if there was any reason why the site does not pull the CSS styles when I load it from my local library? only the text appears aligned in several lines to left hand side of the screen
This theme don't work with WP 3.3.1
Actually it's not working with the latest WP. Will you be making a new update or maybe a new release?
You can modify header.php inside VideographEx folder Can you let me know how to include a thumbnail for a flash video?
Hello Emiliano. Love the theme.
Can you let me know how to include a thumbnail for a flash video?
Thanks so much
I have created a website for doing videography. This theme is perfect for me.
cheers.