About this plugin
Divi 5 already ships a Video Slider. Building one is the slow part: add a slide, paste a URL, type a
title, repeat forty times.
This plugin adds a single button to that module’s Content tab. Click Bulk Import Videos, choose
where your videos are coming from, and every one of them becomes a slide.
It registers no new module. Divi’s own Video Slider and Video Slider Item stay exactly what they
are, so your layouts remain 100% native Divi and nothing breaks if you ever deactivate this plugin.
Three ways to add videos
- Media Library: pick as many existing videos as you like, or upload new ones without leaving
the window.
- External Videos: paste a list of URLs, one per line, mixing YouTube, Vimeo and direct
MP4/WEBM freely.
- YouTube Playlist: paste one playlist link and import the whole thing.
Review before anything is created
Everything is listed first, with thumbnails, durations and the reason for anything that will be
skipped. From that list you can:
- Drag rows to reorder them, or move them with the arrow keys.
- Click any title and write your own.
- Drop anything you changed your mind about, before a single slide exists.
- Choose Append to add to the existing slides, or Replace All to start clean.
It fills in the details
Each slide gets its video URL, its thumbnail, and its title as the Element Label, so your layers
panel is readable instead of forty rows called “Video Slider Item”. Titles can be tidied on the way
in: strip emojis, strip special characters, or force Title Case.
It can generate posters for self-hosted video
Divi cannot make a thumbnail from an MP4; its Generate From Video button only resolves YouTube and
Vimeo. This plugin can grab a real frame from a video file on your site, save it to your Media
Library, and use it as the slide’s overlay image. Import the same video again and the poster it
already made is reused, so your Media Library does not fill up with copies.
Duplicates are caught
Every import is checked against both the batch itself and the videos already in that slider, so
importing twice never doubles anything.
Free and API modes
Free mode needs no key. It reads each video’s public oEmbed data for a title and thumbnail, and for
playlists it reads the public feed, which returns roughly the 15 most recent videos.
API mode uses a YouTube Data API key you save once. It returns the full playlist, up to 400 videos,
plus real durations and view counts.
Optional import history
Off by default. Turn it on and any past import can be added to a different slider later without
fetching it again.
Requirements
Divi 5, as either the theme or the Divi Builder plugin. Without it the plugin stays inert and tells
you so.
External Services
This plugin contacts third-party services to look up the details of the videos you ask it to
import. Nothing is sent anywhere until you paste a URL and press Fetch Videos, nothing about you or
your site is transmitted, and no data is sent at all when you import from your own Media Library.
YouTube (Google)
- What it is used for: reading a YouTube video’s title and thumbnail, and reading the contents of a
public playlist.
- When it is called: only when you fetch YouTube URLs or a YouTube playlist.
- What is sent: the video or playlist ID taken from the URL you pasted. In API mode, the YouTube
Data API key you saved is sent with the request.
- Endpoints: https://www.youtube.com/oembed, https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml, and in
com/youtube/v3/.
- Terms of Service: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms and https://policies.google.com/terms
- Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Vimeo
- What it is used for: reading a Vimeo video’s title, thumbnail and duration.
- When it is called: only when you fetch Vimeo URLs.
- What is sent: the Vimeo URL you pasted.
- Endpoint: https://vimeo.com/api/oembed.json
- Terms of Service: https://vimeo.com/terms
- Privacy Policy: https://vimeo.com/privacy
Direct video files (MP4, WEBM and the rest) are never sent anywhere. Their title is read from the
filename, and a poster image, if you ask for one, is generated inside your own browser and saved to
your own Media Library.
Source Code
The PHP in this plugin is shipped as written. The two files in dist/ are minified builds, and
their readable source, together with the build tools that produce them, is public at:
com/stackvanehq/stackvane-video-import-for-divi-source
- dist/builder.min.js is webpack’s production bundle of client/builder/index.js and the modules
js.
- dist/builder.min.css is client/builder/builder.css with whitespace removed by clean-css at
level 1. Nothing is reordered or restructured, so the two read the same.
To rebuild both, clone the repository, then run npm ci and npm run build.
Every third-party library the bundle uses at run time is a webpack external, listed in
js, so it is supplied by WordPress or Divi rather than compiled in. txt
names them.
No minifier, obfuscator or build step hides anything: the compiled files are the same code with
whitespace and local names removed.