About this plugin
The GDPR friendly way to embed YouTube videos in WordPress. This block replaces heavy YouTube iframes with a lightweight placeholder image and only loads the YouTube player when your visitor clicks play.
No YouTube scripts or cookies are loaded until the user interacts — making your site faster and privacy compliant.
Key Features:
- GDPR & Privacy Friendly: Zero YouTube scripts loaded until the user clicks play
- Faster Page Speed: Replaces heavy YouTube embeds with a lightweight image placeholder
- 6 Play Button Styles: Choose from 6 icon presets and apply them globally
- Custom Play Icon: Upload your own SVG play icon
- Theme Color Support: Use your WordPress theme colors on the play button
- Adjustable Icon Size: Control the size of the play button
- Thumbnail Quality: Choose the YouTube thumbnail quality per block
- Custom Thumbnail: Upload your own thumbnail image for extra privacy
- Global Settings: Set icon style, colors, and size once — applies across your entire site
- Free: No premium upsells or locked features
Third-Party Services
This plugin integrates with YouTube’s services in the following ways:
– Fetches video thumbnail images from YouTube servers when displaying video previews
– Loads the YouTube video player and related scripts when a user clicks to play a video
– Communicates with YouTube’s servers to stream video content
For more information about YouTube’s services:
– YouTube Service Homepage
– YouTube Terms of Service
– Google Privacy Policy (YouTube is owned by Google)
Embeds
For more information about embeds:
– Embed guide