Better Core Video Embeds
This plugin provides page optimisations for pages and posts which have embedded Youtube, Vimeo or Daily Motion videos which have been added using the core embed block. Without this plugin, when using the core embed block, when your page loads, lots of external scripts and styles are loaded from the embed service, regardless of whether a visitor actually interacts with the embedded video. This plugin prevents these scripts and styles from loading until the user actually interacts with the video. It does this by replacing the video embed, on page load with the video thumbnail image (added on Youtube, Vimeo or Daily Motion). When a user clicks the thumbnail the embedded video, along with associated scripts and styles are loaded.
Embedly
Enhance the default WordPress embedding to get previews for any article, including your own blog posts. You also get embeds for YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch, Google Maps, and Embedly’s growing list of 1000+ supported providers. You can customize the style of the embeds, to optimize for darker WP themes, alignment, and width. In addition, social buttons can be added around the embeds to make it easier to share content from your blog posts. If you have an Embedly Cards account, you can link it to the plugin with your Embedly API key. Not only does this remove branding from the cards, it also gives you access to analytics and viewer behaviors for most popular music and video player embeds (YouTube, Vimeo, Instagram, SoundCloud). Find out how many people viewed your embeds for how long. To learn more about Embedly Cards please visit our website. Using it is as simple as the default WordPress embedding. Embed media by pasting its URL in a single line when writing a post. The plugin automatically displays an embed of the media in the WordPress post editor. Fair Warning: This plugin generates static HTML content for your posts. After you deactivate the plugin, that HTML will still remain behind in all posts where the plugin was used to create embeds.
