Title: Video Expander
Author: bcupham
Published: <strong>జనవరి 2, 2016</strong>
Last modified: జనవరి 2, 2016

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Video Expander

 By [bcupham](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bcupham/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/video-expander.zip)

 * [Details](https://te.wordpress.org/plugins/video-expander/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://te.wordpress.org/plugins/video-expander/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://te.wordpress.org/plugins/video-expander/#installation)
 * [Development](https://te.wordpress.org/plugins/video-expander/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/video-expander/)

## Description

Creates shortcode to display video iframes in columns, where each video expands 
to play on mouse click.
 Also generates a video thumbnail to use as a placeholder
to reduce load time and memory usage.

Shortcode format is the following:
 [video-expander video-url=”THE URL OF YOUR YOUTUBE
OR VIMEO VIDEO”]The caption for your video.[/video-expander]

**Read complete instructions in Installation section**

Admin can choose how many columns of videos to display. At 800px or less, will automatically
display only
 one column of videos.

Accepts Youtube and Vimeo video urls only at this time.

**Contact me with requests for features**

## Installation

 1. Upload the plugin files to the `/wp-content/plugins` directory, or install the 
    plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
 3. Use the Settings->Media screen to configure the number of columns of videos

**How to Create a Gallery**

 1. Insert correctly formatted shortcode in your post or page content area (text edit
    mode only).
 2. Shortcode format is `[video-expander video-url="THE URL OF YOUR YOUTUBE OR VIMEO
    VIDEO"]The caption for your video.[/video-expander]`
 3. Enter as many shortcodes as you want, but group them directly next to each other(
    no spaces or line breaks) or bad things will happen.
 4. Save. The plugin will automatically wrap your shortcodes in a gallery `div`.

**Example video urls**
 https://youtu.be/MBbpzbfNaC0 or `https://vimeo.com/123685236`

**BUT NOT:**
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBbpzbfNaC0

In other words, the video id (‘MBbpzbfNaC0’) needs to go at the end of the URL.

**Also…**

 * To change colors, font-size, etc. you will need to know CSS. Either override 
   in your styles.css or edit the video-expander.css file — but remember to save
   it elsewhere before updating.
 * To change the image for the play button, delete the original play-button.png 
   file in the assets folder and give the new image the same name, including the
   file extension.

## FAQ

  What videos can I use?

Video embed urls from Youtube and Vimeo only at this time. See Installation for 
correct format of urls.

  How do I stop the videos from auto-playing on click?

Ask me to add that as an option in the settings page and I’ll do it.

  Can you change the plugin to do XYZ?

If it is not too much work, sure. Just ask.

  What about foo bar?

Our top people are working on a solution.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Video Expander” is open source software. The following people have contributed 
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ bcupham ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bcupham/)

[Translate “Video Expander” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/video-expander)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/video-expander/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/video-expander/), or 
subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/video-expander/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/video-expander/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * The first release.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **10 సంవత్సరాలు ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/video-expander/)
 * Tags
 * [video](https://te.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/video/)[video gallery](https://te.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/video-gallery/)
   [video shortcode](https://te.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/video-shortcode/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://te.wordpress.org/plugins/video-expander/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ bcupham ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bcupham/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/video-expander/)

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