First off, thank you for this wonderful responsive plug-in.

I found this fix so i wanted to give back to the community.

A client wanted to stream line embedded Yotube videos that can be posted to his facebook, pinterest, twitter etc..

But it just comes up as a link and not to enticing to click on when shared.
First thought was add a pic in the article and it would pick up that pic.. but that just adds to load times and layout looks silly...not clean in my eyes.

Ive seen many people give solutions with no fix.
This will hide the pic on the site and load it when you share it on social sites.

::) mind you that it needs to be done in a html editor (all editors have a toggle editor button)


{youtube} youtube_link{/youtube}
<link href="url_of_image.jpg" rel="image_src"  />

Thank you for sharing this @norcaljb.

Yiota, it is my pleasure , thank you :)

I have a question that you might be able to help with. I have YouTube videos that I use with AllVideos. All works and plays great! Is there a way to use another image as the screenshot instead of what the YouTube video has?

I know that self hosted videos have the ability to use an image in the same directory with the same name, but how could something like this work for YouTube?

Thanks,
CTE2087

Hi. No, this is not possible.