How to index a Youtube channel on a Wordpress blog?
January 25, 2013 11:24 AM Subscribe
I've just started up a new Wordpress blog, which is all well and good. I've also got a lot of content on Youtube in a channel, quite a bit of videos, as in 200+. Most of that content is not going to be embedded in the blog, but it's useful content that I'd like to be able to index and show to a browser.
When I googled this topic, I found a WP plug-in that seemed to do precisely that, generated an XML sitemap of a Youtube channel and a URL on your blog that you could browse and see the content as thumbnails and synopsis. The plug-in unfortunately is no longer available and the developer is not interested in supporting it.
I'm not a coder or WP developer. I've got tech skills and can usually find a way to do what I want to do in a technical sense. Solutions that involve me setting up a coded solution are not in my bailiwick. I have some developer resources, but not much. I could set up a static page and do this manually video by video but that's inelegant at best, and tedious at worst, and pretty much obsolete from day one as content gets added.
I was thinking if I replaced the WP search function with Google search, plus the XML sitemap video plug-in, that would be fairly powerful in terms of finding content you want on the blog related to a video topic of interest hosted on Youtube but not embedded on the blog, but clearly the plug-in is now obsolete.
So, any resources I could use to find an answer would be useful including places I could post this question, or other ways of thinking about this problem.
I'm not a coder or WP developer. I've got tech skills and can usually find a way to do what I want to do in a technical sense. Solutions that involve me setting up a coded solution are not in my bailiwick. I have some developer resources, but not much. I could set up a static page and do this manually video by video but that's inelegant at best, and tedious at worst, and pretty much obsolete from day one as content gets added.
I was thinking if I replaced the WP search function with Google search, plus the XML sitemap video plug-in, that would be fairly powerful in terms of finding content you want on the blog related to a video topic of interest hosted on Youtube but not embedded on the blog, but clearly the plug-in is now obsolete.
So, any resources I could use to find an answer would be useful including places I could post this question, or other ways of thinking about this problem.
Response by poster: That link is a good start. Embedding the channel also sounds like it could potentially be useful. There's a couple of ways to look at this. An index implies some way to textually present information so you can choose what you want. That link has a thumbnail and a text line describing the content, so for an entire channel you would have a page filled with these links, which is useful but also somewhat long and tedious to find what you want by looking through the whole thing. I guess it would be useful to know if Youtube videos have the equivalent of embedded tags that are searchable on a channel. On the blog, I could then have an index link that points to a search tag which pulls up all videos relating to that topic.
It may be I will need to embed videos on Wordpress using the built-in tags which then would be searchable from Wordpress or create a static list of topics which would pull up those videos. Thinking out loud here.
posted by diode at 1:32 PM on January 25, 2013
It may be I will need to embed videos on Wordpress using the built-in tags which then would be searchable from Wordpress or create a static list of topics which would pull up those videos. Thinking out loud here.
posted by diode at 1:32 PM on January 25, 2013
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Will this get you most of the way there? (source)
posted by jsturgill at 12:25 PM on January 25, 2013