UpdraftPlus vs Automatic YouTube Gallery – Embed Auto-Updating YouTube Video Galleries, Feeds, Playlists & Channels

★★★★★ 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.

The UpdraftPlus Backup & Migration Plugin is trusted by the WordPress community to backup, restore and migrate their WordPress websites. UpdraftPlus is actively installed on more than 3 million websites around the world. Backup with UpdraftPlus UpdraftPlus is the world’s highest ranking and most popular scheduled backup and migration plugin. Backup to your preferred storage location and restore in just three clicks. Backup to Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon S3 (or compatible), Rackspace Cloud, FTP, DreamObjects, Openstack Swift or email. The paid version also allows you to backup to Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Backblaze B2, SFTP, SCP, pCloud, WebDAV or UpdraftVault, our integrated storage option for UpdraftPlus. Backup manually or schedule to run every 2, 4, 8 or 12 hours, daily, weekly, monthly or fortnightly. Restore with UpdraftPlus Your WordPress website is vulnerable. Your site may get hacked. Something could go wrong with an update or your server could crash. You might need to reverse a change made or a mistake caused by human error. Whatever the reason, you can restore your WordPress website in just a few clicks with UpdraftPlus. Choose which components to restore (e.g. plugins, themes, database etc.), click again to restore, then click again to return to the main screen. Migrate with UpdraftPlus It’s easy to migrate your WordPress website to another web host, server or domain with this free version of UpdraftPlus. To migrate, simply download your database, plugins, themes etc. from the source site, then upload them into your destination site. When migrating, a built-in search-and-replace engine identifies old strings and replaces these to reflect the new location. UpdraftPlus saves you time and reduces the risk of broken links or missing files associated with manual migrations. Why UpdraftPlus? Writing a reliable backup and migration plugin that ‘just works’ consistently across millions of different WordPress deployments is hard. UpdraftPlus is relied upon to do exactly that. We’re trusted and actively deployed on more websites around the world than any other WordPress backup and migration plugin. UpdraftPlus: Backs up, migrates and restores Offers a huge number of remote storage locations Allows you to schedule backups, so you can ‘set and forget’ Is comprehensive and easy to use Is proven to work on over 3 million sites. UpdraftPlus Premium The free version of UpdraftPlus will back up and migrate your website perfectly well. However if you need more features and options you can purchase our Premium version. Backup and Migrate with UpdraftPlus Premium, and: Get automatic backups before updates. Restore the very latest version if a WordPress or plugin update breaks your site. Backup Incrementally. Changes are added to the master, saving server resources vs repeatedly backing up in full. Get more remote storage options including Microsoft OneDrive, SFTP, Microsoft Azure, WebDAV, Google Cloud, SCP, Backblaze and pCloud. Get 1GB of integrated storage with UpdraftVault for 99.999% reliability, redundancy and scalability. Get more control over how many backups are stored in a specified interval. Restore from other backup plugins including BackWPup, BackupWordPress, Simple Backups and more. Run backups at set times e.g. during periods of low traffic. Backup to more than one location for added protection. Get detailed reports. Includes cryptographic checksums so you can verify the integrity of the backup files and more. Get Premium migration. Migrating to the destination site is more direct and can be done from the source site. Get Multisite / multi-network compatibility. Backup non-WP files and databases e.g. tables belonging to your e-commerce store or customisations to WordPress core. Get database encryption. Manage your backups and migrations from the WP-CLI. Get Premium Support. Find out more on our comparison page. UpdraftPlus Premium is available for purchase here. Managing multiple websites? UpdraftCentral is a powerful remote control dashboard for WordPress that allows you to manage your backups, as well as updates, users, pages, posts, plugins and themes from one central location. Choose between: UpdraftCentral (free, self-hosted) UpdraftCentral Premium (paid-for, self-hosted) UpdraftCentral Cloud (paid-for, fully-hosted) Optimize your sites centrally by combining the power of WP-Optimize and UpdraftCentral or manage your backups centrally by combining the power of UpdraftPlus with UpdraftCentral. Need to create a temporary clone of your site? UpdraftClone makes it quick and easy to create a temporary sandbox for changes you want to try out. Simply select the versions of WordPress and PHP that you want, and we’ll do the rest. More about UpdraftClone The full suite of plugins from Team Updraft and friends UpdraftPlus. Backup, migrate and restore. Rated 5* on the plugin directory and trusted by more than 3 million WordPress website owner WP-Optimize. Clean the database, compress images and caching. Optimize your WordPress website. 5* user rating. 1 million + active installs. All-In-One Security (AIOS). Secure your WordPress website. Comprehensive, feature rich and easy to use. 5* user rating and 1 million + active installs. WP Overnight. Quality Extensions for your WooCommerce store. 5* rated invoicing, order and product management, customer management solutions and more. Easy Updates Manager. Take control of updates. Lots of features for free, and a Premium version with even more – over 300,000 users. Internal Link Juicer.Boost your SEO. Automate internal links within your WordPress website. Save time and rank higher in the search engines. For other useful, free plugins see our lead developer’s profile, here. Are you multilingual? Can you translate? Do you want to help people that speak your language to backup, migrate and restore their WordPress websites? The UpdraftPlus backup, migration and restoration plugin is ready and waiting. The translation process is easy, and web-based – please go here for instructions: https://updraftplus.com/translate/. Or, if you’re already an expert WordPress translator, just pick out the .pot file from the wp-content/plugins/updraftplus/languages/ directory – if you scan for translatable strings manually, then you need to get these functions: _x(), __(), _e(), _ex(), log_e(). Many thanks to our existing translators. License Copyright 2011-24 David Anderson This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA Non-English translators are provided by volunteers, and wordpress.org does not give plugin developers control over their translations; thus relying on them is at your own risk; UpdraftPlus cannot guarantee that translations from the original English are accurate. 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