How to show thumbnail on blog instead of entire youtube video?

natayholmes · Member · Apr 28, 2013 at 9:16 pm
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I would like to know if it is possible to show a thumbnail of the video i want on my page, instead of the giant youtube video??

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timethief · Member · Apr 28, 2013 at 9:20 pm
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At Settings -> Media in your Dashboard, what size do you have set for “Maximum size for auto-embeds” ?
natayholmes · Member · Apr 28, 2013 at 9:30 pm
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under setting– media, it has three option for image sizes…

Thumbnail size Width:150 Height:150
Medium size Max Width:300 Max Height:300
Large size Max Width:1024 Max Height:1024

is this what i’m looking for??
timethief · Member · Apr 28, 2013 at 9:33 pm
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I believe it is but I could be wrong. I recall setting the width and height attributes in the link itself.

Example: http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/youtube/#video-customization-options
To specify the width and height explicitly:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaNH56Vpg-A&w=320&h=240]
natayholmes · Member · Apr 28, 2013 at 9:37 pm
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thank you…

do you know the proper size to use in the link to make video a thumbnail?
timethief · Member · Apr 28, 2013 at 9:38 pm
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=150
natayholmes · Member · Apr 28, 2013 at 9:45 pm
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thank you…

also.. once i embed the video it shows up to the middle of the page..
is there any way to move the video to the side (left)??
timethief · Member · Apr 28, 2013 at 9:53 pm
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See here http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/image-alignment/#left-alignment
natayholmes · Member · Apr 28, 2013 at 10:13 pm
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i don’t think it works for videos… i tried…
thank you…
timethief · Member · Apr 28, 2013 at 10:16 pm
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This example worked in my test blog.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaNH56Vpg-A&w=320&h=150]
natayholmes · Member · Apr 28, 2013 at 10:47 pm
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i was able to embed the video and get the size down.. i just wanted to have the words and video right next to each other (side by side).. but maybe its my theme that won’t allow me to do that.

my words are aligned to the left.. while my video is under the words toward the middle of the page
timethief · Member · Apr 28, 2013 at 11:00 pm
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I’m sorry but you will have to wait for another Volunteer, most likely justpi to assist you with your alignment issue.
natayholmes · Member · Apr 28, 2013 at 11:07 pm
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thank you for your help!!!
timethief · Member · Apr 28, 2013 at 11:12 pm
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It didn’t amount to much as I don’t use thumbnail sized youtubes and haven’t experienced this alignment issue myself. It’s going to come down to coding into the Text (HTML) editor and justpi excels in that.

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