{"id":85818,"date":"2012-07-08T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=85818"},"modified":"2012-11-29T13:55:18","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T18:55:18","slug":"daily-tip-how-to-replace-the-wordpress-featured-image-with-a-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/daily-tip-how-to-replace-the-wordpress-featured-image-with-a-video\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Replace the WordPress Featured Image with a Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you operate a video site using WordPress, you may be wondering how you can display your content in a natural way within your chosen WordPress theme. Most themes support featured images for displaying recent posts on the home page or blog page, but this can be a bit tricky if all of your content is in the form of videos. The new <a title=\"replace featured image with video plugin\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/replace-featured-image-with-video\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Replace Featured Image with Video<\/a> plugin was created just for these types of sites.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-85954\" title=\"featured-video\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/featured-video.png\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"234\" height=\"301\" \/>Essentially, this plugin will replace the featured image in your WordPress post or page with a video. It supports Youtube, Dailymotion, Vimeo and many other sites that provide embed codes for videos. You&#8217;ll just need to be mindful to edit your specific embed code to match the size of your featured image. You won&#8217;t need to worry about editing any templates, because this plugin will automatically override any existing featured image for a post when you paste in the video embed code. Download <a title=\"replace featured image with video plugin\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/replace-featured-image-with-video\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Replace Featured Image with Video<\/a> for free from the WordPress plugin repository.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick way to override your featured image with a video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4099,"featured_media":73775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16,261],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-85818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plugins","tag-images","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216322,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85818\/revisions\/216322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85818"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=85818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}