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30th Apr '23
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Dynamic Source for Video Element in Bricks Using Meta Box Post Field

This Pro tutorial provides the steps to set the source of a Bricks video element on single CPT pages to be the URL of a video that has been linked to the current CPT item using Meta Box's Post custom field.

Scenario:

CPT 1: service with a video custom field of type "Post" with the Post type set to video (Multiple is not checked).

CPT 2: video with a video_embed custom field of type "oEmbed".

Sample Video CPT item:

Sample Service CPT item

On the front end:

Step 1

Let's define a custom function that gets the URL of the oEmbed video of the video post whose ID is the value of the current post's video field.

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