Easy YouTube Gallery for WordPress Plugin Directory

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-16_9 for 16:9, .ar-4_3 for 4:3 or .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