In this members-only tutorial, we shall build a custom YouTube video carousel with videos playing in a lightbox when the thumbnail is clicked by
- registering a Custom Post Type called `video` having a `video_url` custom field
- adding video entries while providing the URL of a YouTube video in each
- adding a Code Block in Oxygen with the code to output the video entry image (featured image and if not present, video thumb from YouTube), title and URL using a custom WordPress query and loop, initializing Owl carousel on the videos container and adding the necessary CSS
in Oxygen.
Requirement: The ability to upload files to a plugin directory. This needs to be done via cPanel file manager or a FTP client.
Step 1
Install and activate my custom functionality plugin.
Upload owl.carousel.min.css and owl.theme.default.min.css to the plugin's assets/css directory and owl.carousel.min.js to plugin's assets/js directories via a FTP client.
Step 2
Install and activate Pods.
Add a new video post type.
Add a video_url Website type custom field.
In the Advanced Options tab, tick "Featured Image" under Supports.
Save the pod.
Step 3
Let's load the CSS and JS files of Owl on the page where the slider is to be shown (homepage in this example) and register a custom size for images in the carousel.
Edit plugin's plugin.php file.
Replace the code inside sk_enqueue_files() with: