ACF Video Field/s

Contributors: jconroy
Tags: acf, video, youtube, vimeo, custom field
Requires at least: 3.6
Tested up to: 3.6.1
Stable tag: 1.0

Adds a 'video' field type for the Advanced Custom Fields WordPress plugin.

Description

Adds a 'video' field type for the Advanced Custom Fields WordPress plugin.

Compatible with Youtube and Vimeo videos/urls.

Provides ability to display a preview of the video (thumbnail, video embed or none) and adjusts the video width/size using fitvid.js for improved responsiveness.

Thumbnails are pulled automatically from Youtube or Vimeo.

Uses the built in wordpress oembed feature for video embedding.

Compatibility

This add-on will work with:

• version 4 and up of ACF

Installation

This add-on can be treated as both a WP plugin and a theme include.

Install as Plugin

1. Copy the 'acf-field-video' folder into your plugins folder
2. Activate the plugin via the Plugins admin page

Include within theme

1. Copy the 'acf-field-video' folder into your theme folder (can use sub folders). You can place the folder anywhere inside the 'wp-content' directory
2. Edit your functions.php file and add the code below (Make sure the path is correct to include the acf-video.php file)

php
add_action('acf/register_fields', 'my_register_fields');

function my_register_fields()
{
	include_once('acf-field-video/acf-video.php');
}

Usage

1. Add a new field with a Field Type of "Video".
2. Set how you would like to preview the video e.g. Embed the video, show the video thumbnail (pulled from YouTube or Vimeo) or don't show a preview
3. Set how you would like to return the video/field when the field is called using functions like get_field() e.g. Return the video url, the thumbnail url, the embed code for the video or an array of all of these
4. Publish the field / group as per ACF standard use.

Retrieve Video

1. Retrieve the video by using standard ACF functions for obtaining field values.

Screenshots

Changelog

1.0

• Initial release