Help on embedding bunny storage videos on my wp-script site

Hey! Im pretty sure this is the right thread to post about this.
Im trying to make a tube site and i want to host my videos on bunny cdn but i cant seem to find an option on wp-script retrotube
to embed videos from it.
bunny cdn gives me a video play url but on wp-script there seems to be no where to use it...

If anyone has any ideas please let me know, thanks!

You can't just use the raw play URL because RetroTube expects a standard iframe code or a direct MP4 path. Go to your Bunny Stream dashboard, open the video settings, and copy the actual iframe embed code. In WordPress, switch your post editor from visual to text/HTML mode, and paste that code directly there. It will bypass the theme's limitations perfectly.

PhantomPharaoh said:

You can't just use the raw play URL because RetroTube expects a standard iframe code or a direct MP4 path. Go to your Bunny Stream dashboard, open the video settings, and copy the actual iframe embed code. In WordPress, switch your post editor from visual to text/HTML mode, and paste that code directly there. It will bypass the theme's limitations perfectly.

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This worked thanks!!!
But now how would i set things like thumbnail urls, tags, actors etc?

@btcs69 since you are doing it manually now you just have to fill those fields in the wordpress post editor. wp-script usually has custom meta boxes right below the main text area for things like actors, duration, and tags. for the thumbnails, you can just grab the direct cover image url from your bunny stream dashboard and paste it into the wordpress featured image or the themes custom thumbnail field. doing this one by one is going to be a pain if you have a lot of clips though... seen a few guys use csv imports to bulk upload the bunny iframe codes and meta data at the same time to save time.

yeah the bunny iframe is only gonna handle the player, it won’t auto-fill the rest of the RetroTube fields.

Check the top right “screen options” in the post editor and make sure the WP-Script/RetroTube meta boxes aren’t hidden. Thumbnail is usually featured image or a custom “thumb/poster” field, tags are normal WP tags, and actors are normally a taxonomy on the side like categories.

If you’re adding more than a handful of vids, use WP All Import or similar and map the bunny iframe, thumbnail url, tags, actors, duration etc. manually once. Doing that post by post gets old real fast.

You’ll need to use the iframe embed URL that Bunny generates rather than the direct video play URL. in Bunny’s video library find your video and grab the iframe embed code.

Bunny actually auto generates a thumbnail for every video... in the stream library click the vid and theres a "thumbnail" url you can copy straight into the featured image, saves you making your own. For the poster inside the player you can also append the thumbnail param to the iframe if you want it showing before play.

Tags and actors are just normal WP stuff like the others said, actors is its own taxonomy on the right side so just type them in like categories and it builds the actor pages for you.

Honestly tho if you got more than like 20 vids dont do it by hand. I tried the manual route on my first site and burned a whole weekend on maybe 60 clips before i gave up and learned WP All Import. Map the iframe, thumb url, tags, actors, duration once and then its just dropping a csv in. Bunny can even spit out a lot of that meta for you to build the sheet from.

check whether your RetroTube version supports custom video embeds or only direct MP4 uploads. Since Bunny Stream provides a player URL rather than a raw video file, you may need to use an iframe embed or customise the player template. If that's not supported, ask the WP Script developers whether Bunny Stream integration is available or if there's a plugin/add on for it. That will save you a lot of trial and error.

Check if RetroTube supports iframe embeds Bunny CDN's video player gives you an iframe embed code, not just a URL, so look for a custom embed or iframe field in the video upload section rather than a URL field. If that's not available, a plugin like WP Video Popup or inserting the iframe directly in the post HTML editor should work as a workaround.

btcs69 said:

Hey! Im pretty sure this is the right thread to post about this.
Im trying to make a tube site and i want to host my videos on bunny cdn but i cant seem to find an option on wp-script retrotube
to embed videos from it.
bunny cdn gives me a video play url but on wp-script there seems to be no where to use it...

If anyone has any ideas please let me know, thanks!

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becuz Bunny is not usually the difficult part it is the WP-Script mapping. but if it was a large tube site, then I certainly wouldn’t want to go through the hasle of manualy uploading, but rather have the import proces set up from the outset.

In addition, you might have to use a custom video player field or an embed/player plugin that is compatible with it, as most WP-Script themes require a particular source of video. Consider whether the Bunny Stream embed URL is supported and not just the playback URL.
This will only require a minor alteration to your template/plugin.