About this plugin
This plugin adds the shortcode [youlist] so you can easily embed YouTube™ playlist defined by
- playlist id (PL in front of the playlist id)
- comma seperated video ids list
- user favorites
- user uploads
- search query
in a single YouTube™ player.
Live demo
New in version 1.0.6
- show random playlists with the new attribute ‘randompid’
- added apply_filters for output, style, class and src
- bug fix
New in version 1.0.5
- enable nocookies
- enable the https protocol
- play videos in a specific quality (fx. hd720)
- enable wmode to handle z-index issues.
Usage Examples
To embed a playlist with thumbnails
[youlist pid=”PL3FF15AA7ED356D9F”]
To embed three videos with thumbnails (comma seperated video id list):
[youlist vid=”ZF_K8D414-Y,sFHXWoawnt0,E2uOGOqIyC4″]
To embed three videos without thumbnails:
[youlist vid=”ZF_K8D414-Y,sFHXWoawnt0,E2uOGOqIyC4″ showinfo=”0″]
To embed a playlist from the search string “higgs boson”
[youlist search=”higgs boson” width=”600″ height=”400″]
To embed a random playlist
[youlist randompid=”PL3FF15AA7ED356D9F, PL9AEE7FF9E83DEA62, PL2B8DB1BD4364033F”]
To embed a playlist for all uploaded videos for the user “mismag822″
[youlist uid=”mismag822″ listtype=”user_uploads”]
To embed a playlist for all favorite videos for the user “mismag822″
[youlist uid=”mismag822″ listtype=”user_favorites”]
To embed a playlist width your own custom style
[youlist pid=”PL3FF15AA7ED356D9F” style=”width:300px;height:400px;z-index:1;”]
To embed a user playlist with all the supported attributes (default values shown):
[youlist
uid=”mismag822″
randompid=””
showinfo=”1″
width=”680″
height=”480″
class=”youlist”
autohide=”2″
autoplay=”0″
disablekb=”0″
listtype=”user_uploads”
theme=”dark”
modestbranding=”1″
controls=”1″
color=”red”
fs=”1″
rel=”1″
start=”0″
loop=”0″
iv_load_policy=”1″
version=”3″
style=””
vq=””
nocookie=”0″
https=”0″
wmode=””
parameters=””
]
Ideas for how to use this plugin
- You can use it to display ad-video before or after the main video
- You can have your own short trailer before the main video
- You can collect lessons/tutorials/music videos
- You can use it for your YouTube™ playlist
- You can watch your friends favourites videos
- You can collect videos for your kid and watch it on your site
- … etc …
Shortcode Parameters
The youList-shortcode is a wrapper for most of the YouTube™ iframe parameters described here:
com/youtube/player_parameters
iframe parameters:
- width [integer] – iframe width in pixels
- height [integer] – iframe height in pixels
- class [string] – iframe css classname
- style [string] – iframe css custom style
- parameters [string] – custom source parameters (¶m1=value1&…)
youtube parameters:
- pid [string] – YouTube playlist ID
- uid [string] – YouTube user ID)
- vid [string] – Comma seperated YouTube Videos ID list
- randompid [string] – YouTube random playlist ID, from a comma seperated PID’s list
- listtype [playlist|user_uploads|search] – YouTube listtype
- search [string] – YouTube search string)
- theme [dark|light] – Dark or light control bar
- modestbranding [0|1] – Prevent the YouTube logo from displaying in the control bar
- showinfo [0|1] – Display thumbnail images for the videos in the playlist
- autohide [0|1|2] – Hide the video controls automatically after a video begins playing
- autoplay [0|1] – The initial video will autoplay when the player loads
- disablekb [0|1] – Disable the player keyboard controls
- controls [0|1|2] – Display the video player controls
- color [red|white] – The color in the video progress bar
- fs [0|1] – Display the fullscreen button
- rel [0|1] – Show related videos when playback of the initial video ends
- start [integer] – Play the video at the given number of seconds from the start of the video
- loop [0|1] – Play the entire playlist and then start again at the first video
- iv_load_policy [1|3] – Show video annotations
- version [2|3] – AS player version
- https [0|1] – Enable the https protocol
- nocookie [0|1] – No cookies thank you
- vq [small|medium|large|hd720|hd1080] – Change video quality