Adding Video To Blog On Home Page

At the moment we have a blog section on our homepage, the standard CS feature.

We are going to change this to a series of weekly tutorial videos which we will load on Youtube and then link to the blog. I have tested it this morning with some example video and when you click the thumbnail on the home page it opens the blog page and video but on the home page there thumbnail image is just grey, is there a way of changing this so its like the start of the vide, see attched:

Current:

[url=https://ibb.co/R7HnbmD]

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What we would like in this box:

[url=https://ibb.co/k5vrgmz]Screenshot-2020-07-16-at-12-20-17.png[/url]

Any help appreciated, if this needs some additional work and a developer can help please get in touch.

You can upload video covers separately. You can get the cover using online services. Example, http://www.get-youtube-thumbnail.com/

You can upload video covers separately. You can get the cover using online services. Example, http://www.get-youtube-thumbnail.com/

Thanks, where would we add this as I am on the blog section now and have loaded the video to the description box, where would I enter the thumbnail URL for it to show up on the home page?

1. Blog post → Add-ons tab → Blog section: Image.

2. Check: Design → Layouts → Homepage → Blog block options → Template: Blog: recent posts scroller (for default theme).

1. Blog post → Add-ons tab → Blog section: Image.

2. Check: Design → Layouts → Homepage → Blog block options → Template: Blog: recent posts scroller (for default theme).

Thank you.

When I add the URL it is also loading the image (large size) on the blog page, can this be removed so on the blog page there is just the embedded video?

BUMP - Still looking for advice/help on this

Bump again

You could use Design > Templates to edit this template:

templates / addons / blog / hooks / pages / page_content.pre.tpl

You can comment out the image. Comment out this IF statement (yours may be formatted differently):

        {if $page.main_pair}
    	    
{include file="common/image.tpl" image_width="890" image_height="304" obj_id=$page.page_id images=$page.main_pair}
{/if}