Echomango

Many thanks Cristián! That did the trick. I love it when it is simple! Thanks so much.

Echo

Beautiful! Works like a charm. Thanks so much Philly.

I have to laugh at myself. I had been working to expand your earlier plugin to do three and four videos and was getting nowhere, LOL. I’m sure for you it was a walk in the park but for me, not so much. ;>) My eyes lit up when I saw your post since I could stop my frustration. lol

One other question. When I expand the size of the playlist it tends to begin at the expected left margin but as it increases in size it spills over onto the background area on the right side. If it could be centered it would just about fit into the normal “text space.” Is there a simple way to center it? I tried

<center>

tags around the shortcode but nothing. It will be easy to simply downsize the player and have it fit just fine but if there was a simple way to center it I could have it be a bit larger. Anything easy to do that?

Thanks again.

Echo

• This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by  Echomango.

Good morning Philly. Bless your perseverance. I activated the plugin and created a page “test-plugin.” It sadly gives the same response in firefox, chrome, and safari “JW Player® appears here.” It will be interesting to see if your version of these browsers gets the same result.

I hope I activated the plugin properly. Up to this point I have always used the wordpress panel to load and activate plugins. This time I ftp’d the plugin PHP file you sent to me to the wp-content/plugins directory and then went to the wordpress plugin admin section where wordpress recognized the plugin and I clicked “activate.” I am assuming that means success.

It was great to see how the plugins work. I had always wondered and doing this has given me the opportunity to see exactly how they work. Very cool and elegant process isn’t it?

Aha! I had been using Google Chrome and decided to try Firefox. When I loaded the page in Firefox it comes up just fine! Success! Now all I need to do is figure out why Chrome is failing and I will be good to go. I also went and tried Safari and it also failed. Must be something about Safari and Chrome that are stopping up the works. Philly were you using Firefox?

Once I get safari and chrome figured out I want to post this code on the forum as an example of a way to connect JW to a playlist while using S3 and cloudfront. That way in the future folks like me will have it easier.

I can’t thank you enough Philly.

Anyone have any ideas about what might be happening here?

Thanks for any help.

Echo

Works for you! LOL! That’s both encouraging and hilarious! I increased the downloads and tried again and it still shows the “JW Player® appears here.”

Plefase ignore the above post. I hadn’t seen your previous message.

Philly – The playlist didn’t play. It comes up saying “JW Player® appears here.” Bless your heart for taking the time to do this. I owe you one, or maybe two. ;>) If we can get this working I will easily be able to use it as a template and fill in and change as I go. I do hope we can get it working.

I have created a temporary user named Philly with password “test” without the quotes. If that might help you to have a look. The file is titled “test-philly.”

Thanks Cristián. For anyone else out there who might have made the same mistake here is the solution: I had a look at the JW Player forums and found that when you first download the player there is a checkbox that needs to be unchecked. The box is titled ” Include Viral, a video sharing plugin.” I obviously overlooked that when I first downloaded the program so I went back and unchecked the box, downloaded the new files without the plugin and uploaded the new js and swf files to my JW Player directory (after renaming the old ones). It did the trick!

Those tags are exactly what I needed! They work great and are simple and elegant. I love it and can’t thank you both enough for leading me to this.

I did notice that when the upper tag looks like this

It still prevents the content from displaying. This confuses me a bit since it seems to be set to level 0. Isn’t level 0 open to the public?

It looks like anything that gets put between those tags is not shown, even if the tag is set to level 0.

Thank you both for your help with this. I think that slowly I am starting to understand more about the program. The more I read the documentation the more I get it. ;>)

It seems that the intent of the program is to place a portion of the newest posts onto the index page as a teaser with a link back to the full post that can then be purchased. Great idea but it doesn’t work so hot with video content. I tried typing a couple of paragraphs in from of the link to the video but that didn’t seem to work. Instead I changed the page that new posts are sent and then was able to restrict access to that page. It’s not an elegant solution but it seems to work okay for now. I am guessing that the more I read the documentation the better off I will be.

Codeclips – Thanks for an excellent description of the problem. I opened up the index.php and the code was very simple and there was no reference to the loop you have referred to. Not sure where to go with that. Perhaps I was opening the wrong file?

Eduan – I played around a bit with the alternative view protection. Very interesting stuff but it didn’t seem to restrict the content on the index page It was then that I started realizing that I was remiss for not being more diligent in reading the documentation. So thanks for pointing me in that direction.

I would still be interested to know if there is a way to restrict the video to play back on the index page but have a shell there. I guess one way to do it would be to take a jpeg of the video in the player and have that jpg linked to the restricted file. That way the user would see a picture of the video in question and could also read a little text about what they might find but would have to click the ?p=71 link to see the actual video and if they were not a member they would be sent to the membership option page.