WP Robot Tips : Still talking around Autoblogging Stuffs, and of course, we will concern to wordpress theme. In this post, i will try to show you, how to modify Snapshot WordPress Theme (created by woo themes), for our autoblog deeds.

For amazon autoblog that using wp-robot, it should be no more problems, because you can learn from my previous post about how to show thumbnail automatically, you can use auto thumb plugins or even using auto custom fields.

In this case, lets learn a new trick to make youtube autoblog.

Just like the other problems, making autoblog that looks a like “common blog” (not automatic posted) were show its thumbnail. New problems for Youtube post that Get the image plugins cannot help us to handle this. Maybe we’ve already assume that youtube does not have thumbnail or screenshot, so we must make it manually. That is wrong!

The fact that i recently found is even youtube has make screenshot for every video that stored inside their server. If you do not believe that youtube have a screenshot, lets make small research like this :

First, lets find one of youtube ulr video like this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_YFTduLZfQ
The magic is in this url : http://i.ytimg.com/vi/your-youtube-url/default.jpg

Just try to change the “your-youtube-url” with the ID of the youtube video, and it will be like this : http://i.ytimg.com/vi/A_YFTduLZfQ/default.jpg. Still didn’t believe with this?, do another test!.

Back to wp robot plugins, wp robot youtube modul has including this thumbnail into its package. If you try to “sniff around” the youtube module, you will find a script like this : $post = str_replace(“{thumbnail}”, $video[2], $post);

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