Video Pop up player

[locolor]

Hi there,

I am looking for a possibility to have a video pop up player. Is there any that works with the lay theme?

My goal is o embbed videos from vimeo and youtube and have them play as a pop up.

Would be thankful for any recommendations.

Thanks!

[arminunruh]

hey you can try the new overlay feature
https://laytheme.com/documentation/overlays.html
https://www.instagram.com/p/CvII57wrp7V/

i think if you insert an image into a page, then right click the image and then set a link to a page that has overlay turned on,

then that page will open as an overlay

you just want to be able to click an image or a link and then a popup should appear right

[locolor]

@arminunruh thank you for your response.

I will try it. Even though it means a lot of work because I now have to create a unique page for every single video.
With having several directors and many videos on our homepage this obviously is quite a hustle.

Maybe it would be an option to create an add-on to have the possibility to just drop a link into a player and then the video coming from vimeo or youtoube or uploaded is being shown as a pop up like it already works with fotos in the lightbox add on.

I will check out your approach and see if it woks for us.
Thank you.

[ffinger]

@locolor Hey ! I just used the plugin WP Video Popup (https://wp-video-popup.com) for a recent project and it seems to work perfectly. I added a row where I put the shortcode and was hiding it via css.

hope this helps :)

[locolor]

@ffinger hey, thank you for the hint. So would it also work if I have a thumbnail video and I click on the thumbnail video and then it pops up? Where would I put the shortcode?

[ffinger]

@locolor Hey yes that should work. You just need to add the shortcode with the youtube or vimeo link like this to a row anywhere on the page

[wp-video-popup video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlUKcNNmywk"]

and then hide the row via css like with display:none;
Then the element you want to be the trigger needs to have the class "wp-video-popup", so like

<a href="#" class="wp-video-popup">Play Video</a>

If you want to trigger multiple video pop ups you need the pro version though. There's a good documentation here on the plugin's page: https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/responsive-youtube-vimeo-popup/#description

Cheers
Felix

[kooloo]

@arminunruh hi armin, thx i tried this and it works well for me! but when i close the overlay-page the video keeps running and you can still hear the sound of the video. is it possible that closing the overlay-page triggers pausing the video?

[arminunruh]

@kooloo ah yea!

i see.
i haven't thought of that. im going to work on it!