Automatic YouTube Gallery – Embed Auto-Updating YouTube Video Galleries, Feeds, Playlists & Channels vs Really Simple Security – Simple and Performant Security (formerly Really Simple SSL)

★★★★★ Rated 4.8/5 — Trusted by 9,000+ WordPress sites Create responsive, modern & dynamic video galleries by simply adding a YouTube USERNAME, CHANNEL, PLAYLIST, SEARCH KEYWORDS, or a custom list of video URLs. Automatic YouTube Gallery is the easiest way to embed a YouTube video gallery, feed, or playlist on your WordPress website. Connect your YouTube source once — the plugin imports your videos, builds a beautiful video gallery, and keeps it up to date automatically every time you publish a new video on YouTube. No copy-pasting embed codes, ever again. View Demo Documentation Contact & Support Home Page The only dynamic YouTube gallery plugin with deeplinking capabilities — every video in your gallery can have its own shareable, search-engine-friendly URL. EMBED FROM ANY YOUTUBE SOURCE — SET IT ONCE, IT UPDATES ITSELF Channel — embed a YouTube channel gallery that grows with every upload. Playlist — embed a YouTube playlist as a video gallery or feed. Username — display all videos from a YouTube account. Search Keywords — build a gallery from YouTube search results. Livestream — auto-embed the live stream from a YouTube channel, with a custom fallback message when you’re offline. Single Video — embed a single YouTube video (or a YouTube Short). Custom Videos List — hand-pick any list of YouTube video URLs. STANDARD (FREE) FEATURES Gallery Builder — create unlimited galleries, each with its own reusable shortcode, e.g. [automatic_youtube_gallery id="123"]. Automatic sync — a scheduled background import (hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly) keeps your galleries current; click “Update Gallery” anytime for an instant refresh. Video sorting — order videos by published date, title, duration, or random, ascending or descending. YouTube Shorts filter — filter videos by duration to show only Shorts or hide Shorts from your gallery. Exclude videos — blacklist specific videos so they are never imported. Responsive grid layout — up to 12 columns, adapts to any screen size and looks great on mobile. Pagination — “Load More” button or Previous/Next pager, with translatable labels. Live search form — let visitors search videos inside the gallery. Flexible player — native YouTube embed or a lightweight Custom Video Player; autoplay, loop, mute, auto-advance to the next video, player color, closed captions, and player language options. 16:9, 4:3, and 9:16 (Shorts / vertical) aspect ratios for thumbnails and the player. Fast by design — built-in API caching, videos served from your own database, lazy loading, and minified assets for quick page loads. GDPR compliant — optional cookie consent before playback and YouTube’s Privacy Enhanced Mode (youtube-nocookie.com). Gutenberg Block — embed the YouTube gallery block right in the editor. Sidebar Widget — works in any widget area and inside Elementor. Works with every page builder — Elementor, Divi, WPBakery, Beaver Builder, Oxygen, and more via block, widget, or shortcode. WPML & Polylang compatible, multisite ready. Most importantly, a clear & beautiful admin interface. [+] Hooks for developers to extend the plugin. PREMIUM FEATURES SEO Suite — deeplinking (a unique, indexable URL for every video), Open Graph tags, Twitter cards, and Schema.org VideoObject markup (JSON-LD) for rich results in Google. Popup Theme — play videos in a lightbox popup. Inline Theme — play videos in place of the clicked thumbnail. Slider Theme — video carousel with customizable arrows, dots, and autoplay; also available as Slider + Popup and Slider + Inline combos. Playlist Theme — a YouTube-style player with a scrollable playlist beside or below it. Popup mode for single videos — open any single video in a lightbox from a thumbnail, custom text, or image trigger. Try every premium feature free for 7 days — no payment details required. PERFECT FOR YouTubers & vloggers showcasing their channel on their website. Churches & non-profits embedding sermons and live streams. Musicians, gamers & podcasters displaying their latest episodes. Online courses & tutorial libraries organized by playlist. Businesses embedding product demos, testimonials, and video portfolios. Magazines & news sites curating video feeds by search keywords. TRANSLATION READY Do you speak another language? Want to contribute in a meaningful way to Automatic YouTube Gallery? There’s no better way than to help us translate the plugin. This plugin is translation ready and you can translate to your language easily. Once finished, please reach out to us here to get your language file included in the core. SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION We do have documentation on the plugin. Still, Having Issues? We are just an email away. Please write to us describing your issue using the “Contact” form available under our plugin’s menu. You should receive a reply within 24 hours (except Sunday). Also, we answer all support requests on the WordPress.org support forum.

Easily improve site security with WordPress Hardening, Two-Factor Authentication (2FA), Login Protection, Vulnerability Detection and SSL certificate. Really simple, Effective and Performant WordPress Security Really Simple Security is the most lightweight and easy-to-use security plugin for WordPress. It secures your WordPress website with SSL certificate generation, including proper 301 https redirection and SSL enforcement, scanning for possible vulnerabilities, Login Protection and implementing essential WordPress hardening features. We believe that security should have the absolute minimum effect on website performance, user experience and maintainability. Therefore, Really Simple Security is: Lightweight: Every security feature is developed with a modular approach and with performance in mind. Disabled features won’t load any redundant code. Easy-to-use: 1-minute configuration with short onboarding setup. Security Features Easy SSL Migration Migrates your website to HTTPS and enforces SSL in just one click. 301 redirect via PHP or .htaccess Secure cookies Let’s Encrypt: Install an SSL Certificate if your hosting provider supports manual installation. Server Health Check: Your server configuration is every bit as important for your website security. WordPress Hardening Tweak your configuration and keep WordPress fortified and safe by tackling potential weaknesses. Prevent code execution in the uploads folder Prevent login feedback and disable user enumeration Disable XML-RPC Disable directory browsing Username restrictions (block ‘admin’ and public names) and much more.. Vulnerability Detection Get notified when plugins, themes or WP core contain vulnerabilities and need appropriate action. Login Protection Allow or enforce Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) for specific user roles. Users receive a two-factor code via Email. Improve Security with Really Simple Security Pro Protect your site with all essential security features by upgrading to Really Simple Security Pro. Advanced SSL enforcement Mixed Content Scan & Fixer. Detect files that are requested over HTTP and fix them to HTTPS, both Front- and Back-end. Enable HTTP Strict Transport Security and configure your site for the HSTS Preload list. Firewall Really Simple Security Pro includes a performant and efficient WordPress firewall, to stop bots, crawlers and bad actors with IP and username blocks. 404 blocking – Blocks crawlers as they trigger unusual numbers of 404 errors. Region blocking – Only allow/block access to your site from specific regions. Automated and customisable Firewall rules. IP blocklist and allowlist. Security Headers Security headers protect your site visitors against the risk of clickjacking, cross-site-forgery attacks, stealing login credentials and malware. Independent of your Server Configuration, works on Apache, LiteSpeed, NGINX, etc. Protect your website visitors with X-XSS Protection, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, a Referrer Policy and CORS headers. Automatically generate your WordPress-tailored Content Security Policy. Vulnerability Measures When a vulnerability is detected in a plugin, theme or WordPress core you will get notified accordingly. With Vulnerability Measures, you can configure simple but effective measures to make sure that a critical vulnerability won’t remain unattended. Force update: An update process will be tried multiple times until it can be assumed development of a theme or plugin is abandoned. You will be notified during these steps. Quarantine: When a plugin or theme can’t be updated to solve a vulnerability, Really Simple Security can quarantine the plugin. Advanced Site Hardening Choose a custom login URL Automated File Permissions check and fixer Rename and randomize your database prefix Change the debug.log file location to a non-public folder Disable application passwords Control admin creation Disable HTTP methods, reducing HTTP requests Login Protection Secure your website’s login process and user accounts with powerful security measures. Two-Step verification (Email login) 2FA (two factor authentication) with TOTP Passwordless login with passkey login Enforce strong passwords and frequent password change Limit Login Attempts With Limit Login Attempts you can configure a threshold to temporarily or permanently block IP addresses or (non-existing) usernames. You can also throw a CAPTCHA after a failed login (hCaptcha or Google reCaptcha) Access Control Restrict access to your site for specific regions. Add specific IP addresses or IP ranges to the Blocklist or Allowlist. Useful Links Documentation Security Definitions Translate Really Simple Security Issues & pull requests Feature requests Love Really Simple Security? If you want to support the continuing development of this plugin, please consider buying Really Simple Security Pro, which includes some excellent security features and premium support. About Really Simple Plugins Our mission is to make complex WordPress requirements really easy. Really Simple Security is developed by Really Simple Plugins. For generating SSL certificates, Really Simple Security uses the le acme2 PHP Let’s Encrypt client library, thanks to ‘fbett’ for providing it. Vulnerability Detection uses WP Vulnerability, an open-source initiative by Javier Casares. Want to join as a collaborator? We’re on GitHub as well!