Hi guys!
We just released a new version of Bubblecast Video Plugin for Wordpress and it now has new cool features, read on.
Resize thumbnails and player
When you’ve embedded a video into the post and somebody views the page he(maybe she) first sees the thumbnail – a snapshot image from your video. When the user clicks the thumbnail the Quickcast player appears and starts playing.
You can now control the dimensions of both player and thumbnail in your post.
The new parameters are added to [ bubblecast ] tag.
[ bubblecast id=286236 thumbnail=475x375 player=752x544 ]
thumbnail=475×375 tells the thumbnail picture to be 475 by 375 pixels.
player=752×544 makes player show video in 752×544 resolution.
When you click Insert into post in Quickcast it substitutes original video resolution to player parameter. If thumbnail’s and player’s width and height are the same the video is being played just in place of the thumbnail, if they differ, player is shown in a popup window.
Below are some examples of how you can use this new feature.
[ bubblecast id=286236 thumbnail=475x375 player=752x544 ] – unchanged, inserted from Quickcast
[ bubblecast id=284567 thumbnail=550x375 player=550x375 ] - same size for thumbnail and player
Recent video in context
The sidebar widget Recent video has got new option – show videos from the context. It means you can put your videos into different categories and the widget will pick up the posts from the category being shown. You should set Get videos from the context widget parameter to Yes. If no video posts are found in the current category it falls back to the category(categories) you’ve chosen in widget’s setup.
