The advantage of owning a shortcode is being able to use all the functionality of the plugin on the fly regardless of its global configuration, maybe like in my case where you are still forced to keep previous plugins used in its place for reasons of backward compatibility in expectation of their replacement and facilitate not just writing code for customers. Also if you could also get the thumbnail to have greater visual impact would be top notch.
Here you may see an example:
ilpoliedrico.com/2011/04/perle-in-cielo-e-sogni-umani.html
The code I use is this:
<a class="ari-fancybox" href="
www.youtube.com/embed/fiHWq7LBZSQ"><img src="
www.youtube.com/upload_thumbnail?v=fiHWq7LBZSQ&t=hqdefault&ts=1487315943335"" /></a>
Maybe it would be nice to be able to write instead:
[fancybox XXX_url="http://foo.com/video/blabla" thumb="1"]Else[/fancybox]
where XXX is Youtube, Vimeo, PDF, etc., just to then propose on the thumbnail the resource.
I realize, however, that to achieve this will require much work, while mine is only a suggestion to the user. Maybe in the future this kind of functionality you might propose in a major release fee that you might even sell a much higher price. The base is great and has a lot of potential that other similar tools certainly have not.
Regards,
Umberto
PS. If you want we could continue this pleasant discussion privately via email on what I indicated on my profile.
