Elegant YouTube plugin or alternative method

[neilp]

Happy Holidays everyone... I am helping a young semi-professional musician build a online music repertoire using WordPress and his YouTube content. He is currently using WordPress 2012's theme. I am happy to set him up with a Genesis Framework and theme. What I am looking for are recommendations from you all for great plugins which I can use to embed his YouTube recordings, show thumbnails organize them and create an all around professional look.

If Genesis' Framework has built-in tools which makes this easier and looks great, I would love to learn that too!

I am looking forward to getting some help and ideas...
Thank you
Neil

[nutsandbolts]

The first thing I thought of was this third party Genesis child theme from Web Savvy Marketing: http://www.web-savvy-marketing.com/store/dagmar/

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[Brad Dalton]

A theme designed for videos like which Andrea linked to would be the easiest solution.

You could also use a Portfolio Custom Post type with Portfolio style archives pages which display a screenshot of each video.

With custom taxonomy support, this enables you to create different categories for your custom post type with a custom single page template for each video.

You can then pull the YouTube featured image using a plugin like http://wordpress.org/plugins/video-thumbnails/

Both Minimum Pro and Executive Pro themes include Custom Post Type support built in.

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[neilp]

Thanks Andrea... I will take a closer look at and show him your Dagmar theme suggestion. Other than replacing the theme, what tools/plugins would you use to list, catalog and display either YouTube or self-hosted audio and video files?

I, we, appreciate your suggestions!
Thank you
Neil

[neilp]

Sounds like several top notch suggestions, Brad. Thank you.

I will visit Studiopress and look at those theme suggestions.

I need to learn more about Custom Post Types.
What tutorials would you recommend for someone like me who is at the intermediate WordPress knowledge level?

As far as the Portfolio Custom Post type with Portfolio style archives pages suggestion, where can I find and learn more about that solution? Is that a Studiopress product? If not, whose?

And finally, I will check out that plugin too.

Thank you
Neil

[Summer]

There's a plugin called Featured Video Plus that I've used here: http://www.zombiechannel.com/category/zombie-videos/

There's also a plugin that generates a video gallery based on a YouTube playlist, Tubepress, that I've used here: http://www.sliceofscifi.tv/fan-videos/

There are a few tutorials on creating custom post types, at WP Beginner and I think there was one at WP Explorer, as well as a few different plugins that can be used to create them without having them tied to a specific theme... I've used Custom Post Type UI and Types on more than one occasion.

I believe Brad may have a tutorial or two on his site about creating custom post type archives... if not, I expect there will be a new one soon... he seems to have a knock for churning out tips seemingly exactly when they are needed 🙂

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[Brad Dalton]

You can use the code in the Executive Pro child theme which is the best or a tutorial which shows you how to add it to a specific child theme.

I have written about 10-12 tutorials which show you how to do this with specific themes and its fairly easy to do. Simply a copy and paste job however the CSS code is slightly different for each theme.

Here's one example http://wpsites.net/web-design/add-portfolio-page-to-modern-portfolio-pro-theme/

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