Website: http://changelog.ca/project/VideoPress_Recent_Videos

Below is an ad hoc list of issues with the Recent Videos plugin. Feel free to add to it. (Make sure to sign any issue you add so we know who to talk to if there are any questions about it.)

Ad Hoc Issue List

Issue: These plugins have inline styles hard-coded in. Since inline styles are at the most-specific end of the CSS cascade, you can't overwrite those styles via the vlogsplosion.css file. I wanted to add a 1px black border to the video thumbnail images.

Action: Charles gave me some CSS-writing suggestions, including trying

adding "!important" to the style. But this is still unresolved. No

matter what ID or class I tried to hook my style to, I was unable get

vlogsplosion.css to overwrite the plugin's inline styling. My temp

solution has been to hack the plugin's inline styles. Not everyone

will want to do that. I would welcome some help in the form of another

pair of eyes looking at the CSS - it's entirely possible I haven't hit

on the right combo yet. If someone else can do it on their own site or

sandbox and share the CSS snippet that worked, I could probably figure

out where I've gone wrong. If not, maybe Charles could add a thumbnail

image border option?

Note: Here's the deal. Using !important in the line of CSS does override the plugin inline styles in Firefox, Opera, and Safari 2 & 3. But IE6 and IE7 ignore the !important and render the inline style instead. Charles and I chatted via IM on 9/6/07 - he's going to remove the inline style. During the September 2007 Show-In-A-Box Hackathon, we need to make sure we add styling for the VideoPress plugins to the vlogsplosion.css and any other stylesheets we write. Otherwise most browsers will put a colored border around the VideoPress thumbnail images, the same color as it would use to underline a hyperlink.

Issue: Plugin randomly shows a different numer of thumbnails than asked for. We have not been able to reproduce it consistently, but it's happening on Ryan Is Hungry, and I think to David Howell as well.

also-i've noticed that it's messed up on pages and not blog posts or the front page....compare recent videos on these urls-

http://ryanishungry.com/ - not messed up

http://ryanishungry.com/subscribe/ - messed up

Action: Charles was going to do some testing to see if the bug is in Recent Videos or in vPIP. Meanwhile, is this happening to anyone else?

also markus fixed this on ryanishungry, did he fix it in the plug in? i don't think so.

Feature request: Can "recent videos" show any post that has a thumbnail? This way it would show blog posts that just had a photo and text. Not every post will be video, and it'd be great to keep the visual format.

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Feature request: It would be great if, when using these as Widgets, we could control which pages or page types the widgets display on - we're working on some custom page templates to turn them off, but we're wondering about a plugin solution as well

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Feature request: If someone is updating plugins, specifically "Recent Videos", could I have an option to include videos before and/or after the video being watched?

Currently, resent videos looks at the previous X number of videos. If someone looks at a video from months or years ago, I'd like the option to show thumbnails of say the 4 videos before the current one and/or maybe the 4 videos after the current.

(Request made by Mike Moon.)

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