24
October
2006

Revver Wordpress Plugin

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This plugin provides a simple way to embed Revver videos into a Wordpress blog.

wp-revver.tar.gz

Features

  • Simple to configure
  • Include your affiliate code to make money off referrers
  • Choose between two players:
    • Flash
    • Quicktime
  • Choose between two different flash skins:
    • Revver 1.0
    • Revver 2.0
  • Optionally uses javascript to avoid XHTML-prohibited tags, maintaining the standards compliance of your blog
  • Optionally uses a video thumbnail as a place holder to speed up page loading
  • Adds a button when writing posts to easily insert the required code

Requirements

  • A WordPress Blog
  • A desire to share videos with the world

Installation

  1. Download the plugin here: wp-revver.tar.gz (16 kB)
  2. Unzip the plugin into your /wp-content/plugins directory.
  3. Activate the plugin in your WordPress admin.
  4. Configure the plugin under the Options tab in your Wordpress admin (see screenshot)
  5. Add the code “revver(12345)” where 12345 is the number of the video on Revver.


Screenshots

Options Screenshot

Change History

1.3 2007-05-17 Tim Gallagher provided a bug fix for the options page. Thanks, Tim!
1.2 2006-12-07 Added ability to choose flash skin.
1.1 2006-10-30 Added affiliate ID option
1.0 2006-10-24 Original version

Who’s Using It?

Send me an email at the address below if you would like to be added or removed from this list.

Why not use the Official Revver Wordpress Plugin?

Almost a year after I released this plugin, Revver has released a Wordpress plugin of their own. What’s the difference and which one should you choose?

My plugin is MUCH simpler and cleaner for popping a video into a blog post using the video ID. The Official Plugin is much more bloated and does a lot more with organizing your video library from inside the Wordpress admin, allowing visitors to post video responses as comments, seeing earnings without going to revver.com, etc. You can think of my plugin as the “light” version for people that don’t want to mess with all that other crap. I sure don’t.

Questions and Comments

You may leave questions and comments on this blog, or email them directly to me at erikwordpressplugins -at- gmail.

35 Comments

  1. Michael and Maggie » Adventures with Revver UNITED STATES:

    [...] so i was attempting to publish my 2nd video on my blog using Erik’s excellent plugin and i accidentally put in my affiliate code instead of the code for my video. whoops! for about 30 seconds there was a video of a naked breast being repeatedly squeezed on my blog. in my haste to fix it i ended up with some emaciated buddhist monk lighting himself on fire. 3rd time was the charm. [...]

  2. Spondicious » Revver test posting UNITED STATES:

    [...] I have used the plugin by Eric Rasmussen so that I can include Revver Video easily on my site [...]

  3. Erik’s Blog » Real-Time Horse Race Betting UNITED STATES:

    [...] Whenever someone links to my blog, they get a “pingback” comment on my site that points back to their blog. I also get notified via email. Today, it was spondicious.com, acknowledging me for creating my Revver Plugin for Wordpress. The video he used my plugin to post is pretty fascinating. It looks like software to place bets on horses in the middle of a horse race. It’s definitely worth checking out. [...]

  4. eirlymeyerNo Gravatar UNITED STATES:

    Is it possible to control the size of the Revver Videos through this plugin? How can I reduce the original size & create my own size, for example: 300 x 300 or 120 x 120 for the videos to show?

  5. erikNo Gravatar SPAIN:

    eirlymeyer,

    At the moment, you cannot change the size. I will look into adding it as a feature. It sounds like a good thing to be able to do.

  6. brettbumNo Gravatar UNITED STATES:

    I installed the plugin but the quicktag button does not show up.

    I tried entering the code revver(12345) (the media id number not 12345) and wordpress didn’t recognize it. The install seemed to work fine no problems there.

    I’m doing all of this only get revver video entries to validate. I noticed that none of the sites provided by example validate. I also noticed that Revver’s own blog doesn’t come close to validating. :)

  7. erikNo Gravatar SPAIN:

    I assume you mean the “sites provided by example” from Revver don’t validate. The ones using my plugin do. Example.

    I haven’t tested the quicktag button since Rever 2.1.x updated the wysiwyg editor. If you put “revver(247847)” (that’s a valid video number of mine), it doesn’t get converted by WP-Revver into the video embedded on the page?

    Do you see the “Revver” options page in the Wordpress admin?

  8. Web Hosting ReviewsNo Gravatar UNITED STATES:

    i love this blog!

  9. erikNo Gravatar SPAIN:

    Thanks!

  10. Wordpress Quickstart GuyNo Gravatar SINGAPORE:

    Great plugin. Does it work with aLinks?

  11. erikNo Gravatar SPAIN:

    WQG, I have no idea. Try it and let me know.

  12. RalevNo Gravatar BULGARIA:

    about the resize question: I’ve done it manually in the JS file. here are the details:

    I’m posting in a WP blog with 424px wight of the main content, so I obviously needed 424px instead of 480px movie.

    STEP 1 - check what your “new” size of the movie box will be if you want to change the wight.

    —-

    http://www.hsdmag.net

    f.e. - in my case - I put a filed in Photoshop with 480×392 and it appears that when the wight is changed to 424px, the height is changed to 346px.

    STEP 2 - now you should go to the plug-in directory and open the “wp-revver.js” file.
    BE CAREFUL - there are 2 types of values that you have to change. the first one is the “big box” (480×392) and the second one is a smaller one ( the screen without the bottom bar - 480×376). So if you want everything to be desplayed correct - you should open once again your PhotoShop and do the math for the second value.

    After the new values are set, you can replace the “w-revver.js” file with the new one and everything should be just fine :) it worked 4 me.

    ——

    ps: a small bug repport:

    I’ve got 2 different posts in the same page.
    One with Revver video and one with YouTube.
    the Revver post was overlapping the YouTube.
    after I added some text after the “revver(12345)” code it seems that the system recognized the type of object and my FireFox showed the two movies properly..

  13. erikNo Gravatar SPAIN:

    Thanks for that, Ralev.

  14. RalevNo Gravatar BULGARIA:

    pps: NP.
    … just for the people that will look at my source code - now I’m using another solution.

  15. jackywdxNo Gravatar CHINA:

    Hi,erik.I’m from China. I have downloaded the revver plugin and installed it.But I found it did’t work.
    It did show up in the options page.but the quicktag button didn’t show up in the edit page….
    I found another question. I couldn’t open the website http://www.revver.com. The browser always show up couldn’t find the website.
    Do you have any idea or solution? Thanks a lot

  16. erikNo Gravatar SPAIN:

    Well, if you can’t see revver.com, then you might have bigger problems. Have you tried just inserting the “revver(54321)” code into the post yourself? The quicktag button isn’t really all that useful except for remembering the syntax.

    You might try one.revver.com instead of http://www. But if you can’t see Revver, then there’s no point in trying to use this plugin.

  17. ShawnNo Gravatar UNITED STATES:

    Great plug-in - thanks…but any idea why my video shows up fin in Firefox but I get a blank space in IE?

  18. erikNo Gravatar SPAIN:

    Shawn: are you using the flash or quicktime player?

  19. tłumaczenia angielskiNo Gravatar POLAND:

    Thanx a lot! This is very useful.

  20. bilety lotniczeNo Gravatar POLAND:

    “Revver Wordpress Plugin” - Good work. Cogratulations

  21. http://lancefunggallery.comNo Gravatar UNITED STATES:

    We could use a solution for blogger. Maybe a javascript port of the plugin?

  22. Erik R.No Gravatar SPAIN:

    Sorry, I don’t know anything about the inner-workings of blogger. You’re on your own.

  23. TriciaNo Gravatar UNITED STATES:

    We just started using this plugin today on a multiuser Wordpress blog and I love it! I think it is going to open up huge potential for the Chatty Women on my site. Thank you so much!

  24. oliNo Gravatar UNITED KINGDOM:

    hey, i have revver working on my webpress site but the video upload form for my comments is not showing up beacuse of my theme, do you have idea where i would find the html coding for the upload bar?

    thanks.

  25. Erik R.No Gravatar SPAIN:

    Oli, you must be thinking of the Official Revver Wordpress Plugin. Mine has nothing to do with video uploads.

  26. estetikNo Gravatar TURKEY:

    Thanks for nice tips. Very good blog.

  27. Elliot LeeNo Gravatar UNITED STATES:

    Why would I use this plugin instead of the Official Revver WordPress Plugin?

  28. francoeNo Gravatar ARGENTINA:

    great plugin!
    works fine, i will use it.
    but, elliot lee have a good question…

  29. Erik R.No Gravatar SPAIN:

    Frankcoe, I answered Elliot Lee’s question in the post above. I thought I left a comment saying so, but apparently it got lost. Look at the section above “Questions and Coments”.

  30. francoeNo Gravatar ARGENTINA:

    Es verdad!! Lo acabo de ver..perdón. :)
    Incluso, luego de escribirlo instalé el plugin oficial, y comprendí perfectamente porqué quiero usar este plugin.
    }
    oh, yes, is true! I see it now.
    After type that i try to install the oficial plugin, and i see it clearly why i wanna use it your plugin.
    Great work!
    Excuse me for that… and for my cheap transaltor.XD

  31. eligioNo Gravatar PHILIPPINES:

    Does the plugin support the latest version 2.3.3 ? thanks

  32. funnyvideo!No Gravatar FRANCE:

    thanks fot the plugin!

    do it works with the latest version?

  33. Erik R.No Gravatar SPAIN:

    Yes, funnyvideo, it do (sic).

  34. gestroudNo Gravatar UNITED STATES:

    Hello,

    Just wondering if this is compatible with WP 2.5. If it is, that would be great. I know that revver has its own widget, but I don’t need all of its functionality.

    Thanks

  35. Erik R.No Gravatar SPAIN:

    Yes, gestroud, it works just fine on WP 2.5, as well as the nightly build of 2.6 that I’m running.

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