Automatic YouTube Gallery – Embed Auto-Updating YouTube Video Galleries, Feeds, Playlists & Channels vs Smush – Image Optimization, Compression, Lazy Load, WebP & CDN

★★★★★ 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.

Compress images, optimize images, and enable image lazy load automatically with the powerful Smush image optimizer to keep your WordPress site fast, without losing quality. Smush makes it easy to optimize images, compress images, and deliver images faster across your entire WordPress site. This all-in-one image optimizer automatically reduces image file sizes, enables image lazy load, and serves modern formats like WebP and AVIF, all without breaking image quality or adding extra work. Whether you’re running a blog, store, or portfolio, Smush helps you optimize images at scale and keep your site fast with a trusted WordPress image optimizer. Trusted by 1+ Million Sites | 4.8/5 Star Rating Get everything you need to optimize images and speed up your site. Smush works out of the box with no complicated setup – just install and let it handle the rest. Compress images without losing quality Reduce image file size automatically while keeping your images sharp and clear. 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Trusted by over 1 million WordPress users Built specifically for WordPress Regular updates and improvements Backed by the WPMU DEV team Get started in minutes Install Smush, activate it, and start to compress images, optimize images, and enable image lazy load right away. This easy-to-use image optimizer helps most sites see improvements immediately without changing how they upload or manage images. About Us WPMU DEV is a premium supplier of quality WordPress plugins, services and support. Learn more here: https://wpmudev.com/ Don’t forget to stay up to date on everything WordPress from the Internet’s number one resource: WPMU DEV Blog Hey, one more thing… we hope you enjoy our free offerings as much as we’ve loved making them for you! Contact and Credits Originally written by Alex Dunae at Dialect (dialect.ca, e-mail ‘alex’ at ‘dialect dot ca’), 2008-11.