About this plugin
Qaiyo Social Video Embed is a modern, multi-platform video embed plugin with TikTok, YouTube (Shorts + regular videos) and Vimeo support. Mix videos from different platforms together in a single gallery, or automatically import the latest videos from a YouTube channel.
Key features:
- Multi-platform — TikTok, YouTube and Vimeo in one plugin.
- Mixed galleries — Videos from different platforms together in one grid, carousel or list view.
- Gutenberg block — Insert galleries from the editor with a live preview, no shortcodes needed.
- YouTube channel feed import — Paste a channel URL and automatically show the latest N videos or Shorts (no API key required).
- Lightbox / modal playback — Optionally open videos in a fullscreen modal instead of inline.
- Responsive column breakpoints — Separate column counts for desktop, tablet and mobile.
- High-resolution thumbnails — Automatic use of maxresdefault.jpg (1280×720).
- Automatic aspect ratio detection — 9:16 (Shorts/TikTok), 16:9 (regular YouTube).
- Lazy load + click-to-play — The iframe only loads on click, keeping pages fast.
- VideoObject structured data — Every embedded video is described with Schema.org JSON-LD (title, thumbnail, player URL, upload date, duration), so search engines and AI answer engines understand the page. Each video is described once per page; switch it off in the settings if another plugin already does this.
- Customizable play button — Background and icon color configurable in the admin.
- Resilient cache — Metadata is cached; when a platform is down, a channel gallery keeps showing the last videos it read instead of going blank, and a failing feed is not retried on every page view.
- YouTube nocookie support — GDPR-friendly privacy-enhanced mode.
- 4 display modes — single, grid, carousel, list.
- Accessible — Descriptive labels, keyboard support, a focus-trapped lightbox dialog.
- Dark mode and print styles.
- Extensible — Provider pattern, write your own provider.
- Translation ready — Fully internationalized; translations are provided through translate.wordpress.org.
- Translation plugin compatible — Works with WPML, Polylang, TranslatePress and other translation plugins.
- WordPress standards — Nonce verification, capability checks, input sanitization, escaped output.
YouTube channel feed
Paste the channel’s ID-based URL (you can copy it from the channel’s About/Share panel or from a video’s channel link):
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx — the latest videos
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/shorts — the latest uploads shown vertically (9:16)
- https://www.youtube.com/user/legacyname — legacy username channels are also supported
xml) for that channel — no API key needed and no page scraping. The feed lists a channel’s latest 15 uploads. Handle URLs ( /@name ) and custom URLs ( /c/name ) cannot be resolved without the YouTube Data API, which this plugin does not use — paste the /channel/UC… URL instead.
The feed does not say which uploads are Shorts, so /shorts shows the latest uploads vertically rather than filtering them.
External services
This plugin embeds videos hosted on third-party platforms. It therefore contacts those platforms in two different ways, described below.
1. Server-side requests (made by your site, from wp-admin or while rendering a page)
These resolve the metadata of the videos you add. Only the video or channel URL that you enter is sent; the responses are cached. No visitor data is involved.
- YouTube (Google) — www.youtube.com: oEmbed endpoint ( /oembed ) for individual videos, and the official public RSS feed ( /feeds/videos.xml ) for channel feeds, using the channel ID or legacy username contained in the URL you provide.
- Vimeo — vimeo.com: oEmbed endpoint ( /api/oembed.json ) for individual videos.
- TikTok — www.tiktok.com: oEmbed endpoint ( /oembed ) for individual videos.
- WordPress.org — api.wordpress.org: on the plugin’s “Discover Qaiyo” screen only, the standard WordPress plugin API ( plugins_api ) is queried to list this author’s free plugins. No data about your site is sent beyond the standard API query.
2. Requests made by your visitors’ browsers (when a page with the gallery is viewed)
Video thumbnails and the video players themselves are loaded directly from the platforms. This means your visitors’ browsers contact those platforms, and — as with any embedded video — the platform receives the visitor’s IP address, user agent and referring page, and may set cookies.
- Thumbnail images — i.ytimg.com (YouTube), plus Vimeo’s and TikTok’s own image CDNs.
- Video players (loaded only after the visitor clicks play) — www.youtube.com or www.youtube-nocookie.com (YouTube), player.vimeo.com (Vimeo), www.tiktok.com (TikTok).
com mode, and requests Vimeo’s Do Not Track ( dnt=1 ) parameter.
This functionality is required for the plugin to display embedded videos. Provider terms and privacy policies:
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com/legal/privacy-policy
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