Embed Plus for YouTube WordPress Plugin allows you to embed and customize a YouTube gallery (channel or playlist), YouTube livestream (and premiere), YouTube short, or standard YouTube video. This YouTube WordPress plugin can be customized in a wide variety of ways. The plugin also focuses on performance with the ability to lazy load with a façade and defer JavaScript while serving minified CSS and JavaScript. Here are a few recently added features to all versions (free and Pro) of this WordPress plugin:
- YouTube gallery embeds and standard videos now support Façade Mode which improves plugin performance by loading a lighter version of the player, until it is clicked. The plugin then loads the real YouTube embed after clicking (note: for live streams, the real player is always loaded).
- Defer critical and non critical JavaScript – improve the initial load time of your pages by allowing this plugin’s critical and non critical JavaScript code to begin execution only after a page is loaded.
- Compatible with the WordPress Gutenberg block editor (it also stays backwards-compatible with the classic editor WordPress plugin). Both the Gutenberg block selector and the Gutenberg classic block will show the YouTube wizard button.
- Privacy and Consent – Improved privacy and GDPR compliance options like YouTube no cookie, YouTube API restrictions, and a customizable GDPR consent message. Note: if you have a full-blown consent plugin installed on your WordPress site, you may not need these particular features of this YouTube plugin.
- YouTube gallery capability: channel and playlist – The ability to make playlist and channel embeds have a gallery layout. Your visitors can browse through pages of video thumbnails and choose from videos that are pulled from an entire YouTube channel or playlist.
- YouTube gallery auto continuous play – embed a playlist or channel gallery and allow it to play one video after the next without requiring viewers to click a thumbnail.
- YouTube Live Stream – Given a link to a YouTube channel, the plugin wizard automatically finds a livestream if one is active in that channel and displays the livestream for you. You can embed a direct link to a livestream too.
- YouTube Premieres – The plugin provides you the same embedding methods for YouTube live streams as it does for premiere embeds.
- Simultaneous playback control – you can enable/disable the ability for visitors to have separate videos running at the same time on the same page. This also works with YouTube livestream and gallery embeds that are embedded by our YouTube plugin.
- Improved accessibility by using title attributes for screen reader support. Hopefully this plugin can help your site pass functional accessibility evaluations (FAE).
- Improved AJAX WordPress theme support.
- Easy “Insert” button for both the Visual and Text mode of the editor (for YouTube gallery and live stream embedding as well).
- Embed an entire YouTube channel as a (non-gallery, single embedded player) playlist.
- Start video settings for playlist embeds. You can now choose to start a playlist with a specific video or have the plugin automatically start with the most recently added video.
- Automatic localization/internationalization so you can set the player’s interface language from English to another.
- Instant HTTPS support. It can even convert past non-HTTPS videos to HTTPS.
- “At a Glance” direct access to your YouTube posts/pages.
- Shortcode support for embedding multiple videos on one line.
- General playlist embedding support.
- YouTube WordPress plugin migration support.