About this plugin
The plugin allows you to upload your videos on YouTube from your website and embed YouTube videos to your website. If you posting your videos on your WordPress site you don’t neet to go to YouTube website, you can upload your videos directly on YouTube from your website admin panel. And also you can embed YouTube videos to your website with nice visual interface.
Shortcode
The video shortcode will display a single video with it’s info.
To use it you just need the Video ID, to find it just check a normal YouTube url:
In this case the Video ID is oxgnlSbYLSc, and the shortcode is:
[mx_youtuber id=”Video ID”]
Shortcode parameters
Parameter Possible values Description
id – YouTube video ID
display title,date,channel,description,meta Keys of elements sepparated by commas of the parts of the video to show, set to none to only display the video thumbnail
mode lightbox / embed / link Type of embeding the video
theme Check the themes section The template which will be applied
size default / medium / high / standard The size of the video thumbnail
width number The width of the video (can be in %). Valid only in embed mode
height number The height of the video (can be in %). Valid only in embed mode
max_words number Limit the maximum number of words to show in the video description
Themes
YouTubeR comes with some pretty cool templates, this are the current options: default, dark.
You can create your own custom theme for YouTubeR, to do so let’s say you set the parameter theme to custom.
[mx_youtuber theme=”custom”]
Then you can add your own styles to the gallery with the base class mxYouTubeR_theme_custom.
If you need to customize/overwrite the code of the template you can create a folder inside your website theme with the name mxyoutuber and another folder inside it with the name of the theme you want, in this case custom.
Copy the original files from themes/default inside the plugin’s folder into the mxyoutuber/custom inside your website theme, you just need to copy the files you want to customize.
The logic of the plugin when searching for a file of the template custom template is as it follows:
1. The plugin will look for the file inside the website theme folder
2. The plugin will look for the file inside the plugin folder
3. The plugin will load the default theme file