IDI-104: Integrate Video Player in IDI site via WordPress plugin

Description

Create a WordPress plugin that will add to the authoring stage the ability to embed videos in the page using the VideoPlayer.

Comments

• heidi valles commented 2012-11-20T14:40:27.985-0500

  Clone videoplayer (git://github.com/fluid-project/videoPlayer.git) into wp-content/themes/idi-theme/lib
  In wp admin area, create top-level page "Media" and assign template "Media" to it - this is the new "media" page for showcasing videos etc. Top-level location likely temporary.

  header.php: temporary, includes video player files and changes to UIO. Copy back to wp-fss-theme when VP is ready.
  media.php: media page with video player content
  sidebar-media.php: sidebar for media page
  /videos: video files for media page

  update MyInfusion.js - move from videoplayer to infusion (uploader and tooltip components needed)
  update FatPanelUIOptions.html - move from videoplayer to infusion

• heidi valles commented 2012-11-20T15:19:45.817-0500

  See https://github.com/heidiv/idi-theme/commits/IDI-104

• Anastasia Cheetham commented 2013-01-15T16:08:04.993-0500

  I spoke with Joanna about recommendations for incorporating media into the site design, and she'd prefer not to have a Media tab in the main navigation. She suggests videos simply be posted as News posts, and that the root News page include a link in the left sidebar to filter postings to only media postings.

• Anastasia Cheetham commented 2013-01-15T16:09:55.076-0500

  WordPress will embed videos if you provide a link in the authoring interface. It will happen automatically for a shortlist of sites (e.g. youtube, flickr, etc.) and provides means to define your own handler for sites that don't support oEmbed. I've tested the means, and it works to detect a site and plug desired markup into the page. Moving on investigate the filter in the sidebar.

• Anastasia Cheetham commented 2013-01-15T17:13:20.691-0500

  A parameter to query_posts() will filter for tags, which works nicely if we put a "media" tag on any media news articles. Working with Joanna on the page layouts, and looking at the code specifics.

• Anastasia Cheetham commented 2014-03-07T16:55:40.816-0500

  The VideoPlayer plugin is now in use on the production site.