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Displaying Vimeo Thumbnails In Your Blog Post or Archive

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January 7, 2010 @ 12:36pm by Ron

With WordPress 2.9, you can now embed videos by simply pasting the URL into your blog post and have it create the embed code. I was using Vimeo and wanted to pull the thumbnail associated with the Vimeo video which was embedded in my posts.

Here’s how:

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<?php
global $wp_query;
$postid = $wp_query->post->ID;
$sourcestring = get_the_content($postid);
preg_match('/http://vimeo.com/(d+)$/', $sourcestring, $matches);
if (count($matches) != 0)
{
$vimeo_id = $matches[1];
$hash = unserialize(file_get_contents("http://vimeo.com/api/v2/video/$vimeo_id.php"));
?>
<img src="<?php echo $hash[0]['thumbnail_large']; ?>" alt="" />
<?php
}
?>

You can get the thumbnails in 3 different sizes: small, medium and large.

Small

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<img src="<?php echo $hash[0]['thumbnail_small']; ?>" alt="" />

Medium

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<img src="<?php echo $hash[0]['thumbnail_medium']; ?>" alt="" />

Large

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<img src="<?php echo $hash[0]['thumbnail_large']; ?>" alt="" />

I’ll probably get around to writing a function for it later.

Thanks to Eugene Gimelberg for the tip!

Comments (4)

  1. Adrian says:
    February 13, 2010 at 12:32 pm

    Thanks for doing this guide! It’s just what I need for a project.

    Reply
  2. David says:
    April 5, 2010 at 8:50 am

    I used this great function for a while, but file_get_contents isn’t enabled for security reasons on many accounts. So I rebuilt this functionality using cURL here: http://www.soapboxdave.com/2010/04/getting-the-vimeo-thumbnail/

    Reply
  3. Tri Vuong says:
    October 13, 2010 at 3:36 pm

    Do you know if there is any hard limit on the number of calls you can make to Vimeo? Thanks.

    Reply
  4. harsha says:
    October 14, 2010 at 7:56 pm

    Thanks a lot.

    This is what i required for my project.

    Reply

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