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Easy YouTube Gallery

Quick and easy make gallery for custom set of YouTube videos provided in shortcode, and autoplay video on click in Magnific PopUp lightbox.

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Tested up to WordPress 6.7
Current version1.0.5
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 6.7
Minimum stackWP 3.9.0 · PHP —
Directory statusactive
Last directory update17 Jan 20251y ago
Active installations500Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating5.0 / 5 from 9 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Easy YouTube Gallery version 1.0.5 as active, updated 1y ago and tested up to WordPress 6.7.

Overview

About this plugin

Use this plugin when you wish to quick insert gallery grid composed from custom selected YouTube videos.

For automated latest or random videos collected from YouTube channel, favourites, liked videos or playlist check out My YouTube Channel

Features

  • Custom set of ID’s provided as shortcode attribute id (single of multiple ID’s separated by comma)
  • Custom additional class for targeted styling (if you need to blend gallery in your theme)
  • Custom number of columns to distribute thumbnails to (min 1, max 8)
  • Custom set video titles as shortcode content (separate by newline or pipe)
  • Responsive thumbnails
  • Autoplay with Magnific PopUp lightbox
  • Well marked with classes

Classes

  • Main container:

easy_youtube_gallery

col-# for number of columns (default is 1, supported up to 8 )

ar-square for 1:1 aspect ratio

  • custom class provided by shortcode attribute class
  • Anchor:

eytg-item

eytg-item-# for order number of item

eytg-item-first for first item in gallery block

eytg-item-mid for middle items in gallery block

eytg-item-last for last item in gallery block

  • Title: (new in 1.0.4)

eytg-title for custom video title

top positioning custom video title on top of thumbnail

bottom positioning custom video title on bottom of thumbnail

  • Thumbnail:

eytg-thumbnail is class for span where we set video thumbnail as background image

  • Play icon

eytg-thumbnail:before is pseudoclass for play icon

How To Use?

Full shortcode

[easy_youtube_gallery id=uMK0prafzw0,8Uee_mcxvrw,HcXNPI-IPPM,JvMXVHVr72A,AIXUgtNC4Kc,K8nrF5aXPlQ,cegdR0GiJl4,L-wpS49KN00,KbW9JqM7vho ar=16_9 cols=3 thumbnail=hqdefault controls=0 playsinline=1 privacy=1 title=top wall=1 class=mySuperClass] Title One Second Title Video 3 Fourth Video YouTube 5 Sixth YouTube Video No. 7 Player #8 9th item [/easy_youtube_gallery]

Basic shortcode

[easy_youtube_gallery id=uMK0prafzw0,8Uee_mcxvrw,HcXNPI-IPPM cols=3]

Please note! If you doing copy&paste from code above, before you paste content to page, post or text widget content, clear all formatting by paste&copy to/from Notepad or other plain text editor!

Shortcode parameters

  • id (required) single YouTube video ID or multiple ID’s separated with comma
  • ar (optional) aspect ratio of thumbnails; default is ar-16_9 for 16:9, but also supported ar-4_3 for 4:3 and ar-square for 1:1
  • cols (optional) for number of columns to distribute thumbnails in; devault is 1, supported up to 8
  • thumbnail (optional) for YouTube size of thumbnail; default is hqdefault but we can use:
  • 0 have resolution 480x360px
  • 1, 2 and 3 have resolution 120x90px (first, second or third frame)
  • default have resolution 120x90px (Default Quality)
  • mqdefault have resolution 320x180px (Medium Quality)
  • hqdefault have resolution 480x360px (High Quality)
  • sddefault have resolution 640x480px (Standard Definition) and does not exists for lowres videos
  • maxresdefault have resolution 1920x1080px (Full HD) and does not exists for lowres videos
  • controls (optional) to optionally hide playback controls in lightbox player (default is 1 that means “display controls”, but you can set it to 0 to hide controls)
  • privacy (optional) enables enhanced privacy which means that YouTube won’t store information about visitors on your web page unless they play the video. ( 0 or 1 )
  • playsinline controls whether videos play inline or fullscreen in an HTML5 player on iOS. Learn more on Google Developers ( 0 or 1 )
  • class (optional) to add custom style class if you wish to target specific styling for your own needs
  • wall (optional) render video wall with player at top and thumbnails below ( 0 or 1 )
  • title (optional) set custom video titles position ( top or bottom )

TODO

  • Replace MagnificPopUp with newer library
  • VisualComposer block
  • Inline player instead of opening in lightbox
WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • gallery
  • lightbox
  • thumbnail
  • video
  • youtube
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 6.7

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 6.7.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to6.7
Minimum requirementsWordPress 3.9.0 · PHP not listed
Update activity17 Jan 20251y ago

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