Video Thumbnails 2.0.2

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The plugin retrieves the default thumbnail of the video to embed, saves it to the media library, and sets it as the featured image for the post in which to embed.

The user can choose to turn off featured images.

Installation:

Unpack and upload it to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.

Here are some key features of "Video Thumbnails":

Supported services:
· YouTube
· Vimeo
· Facebook
· Justin.tv
· Dailymotion
· Metacafe
· Funny or Die
· CollegeHumor
· MPORA
· Wistia
· Youku
· Blip

Requirements:

· WordPress 3.1 or higher

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Added support for Funny or Die
· Added support for MPORA
· Added support for Wistia
· Added support for Facebook videos
· Added support for CollegeHumor
· Added support for Youku
· Added support for HD YouTube thumbnails
· Added support for higher resolution Vimeo thumbnails
· Added support for private Vimeo videos (API credentials required)
· Added support for Vimeo channel URLs
· Added support for Automatic Youtube Video Posts Plugin
· Added filters to make plugin extensible
· Removed cURL requirement (still requires ability to make external requests)
· Better checks for blank thumbnails before added to media library
· Adds 'video_thumbnail' field to video thumbnails saved in the media library
· Option to clear all video thumbnails (clears custom field from posts and deletes video thumbnails added after 2.0 from library)
· Better file names

Via: Video Thumbnails 2.0.2