Video Thumbnailer for Elementor
Automatically add thumbnails to YouTube and Vimeo videos added with Elementor.
5(1 reviews)
·100 active installs·Updated 2 years agoAs of April 2026, Video Thumbnailer for Elementor is a WordPress video plugin with 100 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 7.9K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2022. Last updated 2 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: The Ultimate Video Player For WordPress….
5/51 reviews
100active installs
7.9K+total downloads
4 yearssince 2022
Overview
Video Thumbnailer for Elementor is a simple add-on plugin for Elementor, pulling in the thumbnails for any YouTube or Vimeo videos embedded into pages or posts via Elementor.
The plugin removes the need to manually select and add a thumbnail image in Elementor when adding a video. Instead, the plugin will automatically pull in the image that has been set as the thumbnail on either YouTube or Vimeo.
It performs two main tasks:
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Find any videos that have the image overlay set to show, but do not have an image set, and it resets the media field for the image back to default instead of being blank.
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Add a switch in the image overlay section of videos in the Elementor editor called ‘Auto Thumbnail’. If it is switched on, and the video is from Vimeo or YouTube, the thumbnail is pulled in auto…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.2.9 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
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Changelog
1.0.1
Corrected code to prevent a potential error when installing the plugin before having Elementor installed
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