The best WP YouTube Lyte to date!

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Today WP YouTube Lyte 1.2.0 got finally pushed out the gates! This new version is beyond any doubt the best version to date, with the following new features:

  • LYTE embeds are now fully responsive
  • automatic inclusion of scheme.org microdata (VideoObject) (also known as “rich snippets”)
  • even better performance (less requests; was 5, now 3)
  • updated to the current YouTube look & feel, see this YouTube video about microdata:
Introduction to Rich Snippets

Although I did go through a small beta-cycle, with feedback from 5 users (thanks guys), I am pretty sure there still are bugs that will rear their ugly head in the following days (some strings haven’t been translated yet, for example). Do contact me, add a comment here or create a post on the wordpress.org forum in case you encounter unexpected behavior!

21 thoughts on “The best WP YouTube Lyte to date!”

    • Hi Massa! Glad to see you’re still around 🙂
      The problem is this style your theme’s CSS:
      .secondary div { margin: 30px 0 0 }
      which adds 30 pixels to every div in your sidebar (which is pretty … extreme if widgets have multiple div’s in them as does WP YouTube Lyte).
      I you add this to your CSS:
      .lyte div { margin: 0 !important; }
      Your audio-player-widget should look (&work) OK.

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    • I’ll probably -if this gets through some more testing- add something like this to 1.2.2;
      .lyte-wrapper-audio div, .lyte-wrapper div, .lyte-wrapper-audio, .lyte-wrapper {
      margin: 0 !important;
      padding: 0 !important;
      overflow: hidden;
      }
      This will probably also tackle the issue you mention you observed in posts.

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  5. Hi, me again. I should also add that the video player widget functionally works (controls + background image appears, video plays fine when play button is clicked), BUT the player now appears strangely (control bar appears higher, background image appears lower from top). Used to look fine before I updated to 1.2.0 (and 1.2.1). Not a deal-breaker since I don’t use the video player widget… but I do love, love, love the audio player widget so I hope the audio player widget issue can be addressed some day. 🙂

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  6. Thank you! Indeed, my problem with both the widget’s audio & video display had to do with my theme’s CSS: .
    .secondary div { margin: 30px 0 0; position: relative }
    1. As you suggested, adding this to my theme’s CSS fixed the audio widget display:
    .lyte div { margin: 0 !important; }
    2. .secondary div { position: relative } in my theme’s CSS was making the control bar appear higher.
    To fix my issue, I did one of the following:
    A) Remove “position: relative” in .secondary div { } in my theme’s CSS.
    OR…
    B) Add .lyte div { position: absolute !important } in my theme’s CSS.
    Thank you for troubleshooting my theme! Problem solved! 🙂

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  7. Google Webmaster tools notified me of a soft 404 issue which was caused by YouTube Lyte. What happened is that a video on one of my pages was set from public to private by the YouTube user. This caused Youtube Lite to crash with an array error taking down the parsing for the rest of the page (which is a soft 404 in google webmaster tools).
    Would love to see this fixed in the next version as it is a situation that isn’t easy to detect and takes down an entire page if triggered. 😉
    This is the error that’s triggered:
    Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array in [redacted]/wp-youtube-lyte.php on line 236

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  8. I’m very much enjoying the use of this fantastic plugin. There is one very small issue in that posts published with embedded youtube videos (using your functions.php handler for regular youtube links) do not serve thumbnails to Facebook pages, which is an issue for folks like me who primarily use Facebook to publicize WordPress posts with embedded content.
    I’m reviewing the plugin source and resulting post html to see if I can make a suggestion for a quick fix here.

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    • Hi Justin; Had a quick look at your site, and guess the problem is due to the fact that you specifically specify an image for Facebook here
      <meta property="og:image" content="http://justinmorrison.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/weapon-trailer-june-7-8-9-counterpulse-150x150.jpg" />
      And so Facebook does not pick up on the video thumbnail that is specified in the microdata section of the lyte-player. This is about the only logical explanation I can find, really, as Facebook does not have a problem to find the thumbnail-image in my own posts 🙂

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      • Thanks for your quick reply. Unfortunately your observation vis a vis the specific post you mentioned doesn’t apply in this case as that particular post came before I began using Lyte, and there were no issues, at the time, with FB interpreting thumbnail specifics when I did promote it. My issue at this moment is that NO thumbnail is being picked up by FB since using Lyte, which wasn’t an issue before with regular wordpress handling of youtube embeds (in conjunction with Video Thumbnails plugin).
        I’ll continue to poke around and let you know if I find anything that might be of help. Could be theme layer. Could be something else.

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        • That’s very weird, moreover so as I did see a thumbnail (the /wp-content/uploads/2013/05/weapon-trailer-june-7-8-9-counterpulse-150×150.jpg one) when adding the link to your post on Facebook?
          I would disable SEO ultimate if I were you, just to see what that changes 😉

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