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Sidebar image to open single youtube lightbox - how?
  • Vote Up0Vote Down pl_londonpl_london
    Newbie question here using Striking...

    On some pages, in the right sidebar I want an image (could be preview of youtube video, better still if I can choose my own jpeg).
    When you click on this image, it opens a lightbox and plays the youtube video (a single video, not a choice).

    I think it involves some combination of widgets, porfolios, lightboxes, shortcodes and maybe featured images, but I am confused?

    Can someone guide me step-by-step?

    Many thanks in advance.
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  • Vote Up0Vote Down BackuPsBackuPs
    Hi,

    You can create a single portfolio item which has a placeholder image and video to link to.

    Now create a postfolio page by shortcode which shows only that portfolio item in a 4 columns portfolio list (4 columns because you need to have a more or less small thumb which fits into the sidebar).

    when you have to shortcode the way you want it and only showing this video.... with a thumbnail you can insert this shortcode into a textwidget into a sidebar and it should work.

    Best regards,
    Striking Team
    Paul
  • Vote Up0Vote Down pl_londonpl_london
    Thanks for your guidance Paul
    The video plays - just two problems remain:

    1. No related videos breaks autoplay
    ----
    In "Edit Portfolio Item"..."Video Link for lightbox", if I add "rel=0" to stop related youtube videos showing at the end, the autoplay when lightbox appears stops working, even if I add "autoplay=1" as below

    I want it to autoplay and show with no related videos at end.


    2. Unwanted titles/captions
    ----
    On the published page, the title from the Portfolio shows below the sidebar image and again beneath the video in the lightbox. I don't want either. Is there a way to suppress them. I can't save the Portfolio item with no title, and I alrready set Feature Header Type to disable in the Portfolio.

    Thanks. If these are restrictions, is there an alternative way to simply display a lightboxed video from the sidebar (without requiring an html programmer)

    Thanks again
    Jonny

  • Vote Up0Vote Down pl_londonpl_london
    The forum has replaced my video link for lightbox with the clip.
    The link was meant to be:

    http colon backslash backslash youtube dot com/watch?v=R5WdTbi9gSA?rel=0&amphd=1&ampautoplay=1
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