add youtube thumbnail in index and single.php add video

Question

I crating custom wordpress themes for video related website, client can embed youtube video, in index.php only show thumbnail image and title of video then when click thumbnail it goes to single.php & show the video,

Plase any one help me, I try Video Thumbnails it not work me.

Answer 1

To solve this:

1. Add custom meta to each post which take youtube url( name of custom meta in code youtube).

2. In index.php loop:

  while(have_posts()){

    the_post();

   //use [get_post_meta][3] to get youtube post meta
   $youtube_img = 'http://img.youtube.com/vi/'.substr( get_post_meta($post-ID,'youtube') ).'/0.jpg';

   //$youtube_img is your youtube video image url
   echo '<a href="'.get_permalink().'">';
   echo '<img src="'.$youtube_img.'" title="'.get_the_title().'" alt="youtube video image for'.get_the_title().'"/>';
   echo'</a>';
   }

3. In single.php loop (set iframe width as you design need)

<?php
while(have_posts()){
    the_post();

    //use [get_post_meta][3] to get youtube post meta
    $youtube_link = get_post_meta($post-ID,'youtube');   
    ?>    

    //$youtube_link is your youtube url
    <iframe width="328" height="233" src="<?php echo str_replace('watch?v=','embed/', $youtube_link); ?>" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>'
    <?php
}