Embed YouTube Block – Fast Loading Videos, Shorts & Playlists vs iframe

The default embed block for YouTube videos sucks. It slows down your site. The more videos on the page the more it slow. This single-block plugin fixes that. Why this block is better than the default one: Instead of loading the entire iframe, only the video thumbnail is loaded, resulting in significant performance improvements Ability to play multiple different videos as a custom playlist or input a playlist ID to play the whole playlist Ability to use a custom image as the video thumbnail Ability to set a custom aspect ratio value for displaying any kind of YouTube videos Ability to loop continuously once it finishes playing Ability to show related videos from the same channel as the initial video Automatically load the video title as the caption The same UI as the default core/embed, and you can use the video title as the caption of the block with one click It can be transformed from/to the core embed block. Automatically convert all default core embed YouTube blocks to this block with one line of code. This plugin also provides a PHP API for developers to render a YouTube video URL as this block; or to automatically transform core/embed YouTube videos into this block. The simplest example is: better_youtube_embed_block_render_block( ['url' => 'https://youtu.be/paSXmpHU9K4'] ); The example with all the parameters is: better_youtube_embed_block_render_block( [ 'url' => 'https://youtu.be/paSXmpHU9K4', 'aspectRatio' => '16/9', 'isMaxResThumbnail' => false, 'thumbnailFormat' => 'jpg', 'caption' => 'My awesome video', 'caption_kses' => false, 'customThumbnail' => 'https://example.com/bg.jpg', 'settings' => ['loop' => 1, 'rel' => 0], 'echo' => false, ] ); To automatically transform all core/embed YouTube videos on your site to this block, you need to put the following code to the wp-config.php file or your theme/plugin: define('BYEB_SPEED_UP_YOUTUBE_VIDEOS', true); or add_filter( 'byeb_speed_up_youtube_videos', '__return_true' ); On iOS, browsers like Safari and Chrome require two clicks to play videos. If you want to allow users to play videos with a single click, you need to add the following code to the wp-config.php file or your theme/plugin: define('BYEB_FORCE_IFRAME_ON_UNSUPPORTED_BROWSERS', true); Please check out this page to see how fast it helps. The page contains around 30 embedded YouTube videos but they don’t slow down the page. If this plugin is useful for you, please do a quick review and rate it on WordPress.org to help us spread the word. I would very much appreciate it. Please check out my other plugins if you’re interested: Content Blocks Builder – Build custom layouts and blocks visually in the Block Editor without needing a code editor, using only core blocks and native Gutenberg features. Meta Field Block – A single block to display custom fields in the Block Editor without coding. It supports ACF, MetaBox, WooCommerce, meta, rest field, shortcode and more. Works everywhere: in the Site Editor (FSE), the Block Editor, inside Query Loop, WooCommerce Product Collection, Term Query blocks, and even in template files. SVG Block – A block to display SVG images as blocks. Useful for images, icons, dividers, and buttons. It allows you to upload SVG images and load them into the icon library. Icon separator – A tiny block just like the core/separator block but with the ability to add an icon. Breadcrumb Block – A simple breadcrumb trail block that supports JSON-LD structured data and is compatible with WooCommerce. Block Enhancements – Adds practical features to blocks like icons, box shadows, transforms, etc. Counting Number Block – A block to display numbers with a counting effect The plugin is developed using @wordpress/create-block.

Advanced iFrame iframe Donate GitHub [iframe src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/7_nAZQt9qu0″ width=”100%” height=”500″] shortcode should show something like this: WordPress removes iframe html tags because of security reasons. Iframe shortcode is the replacement of the iframe html tag and accepts the same params as iframe html tag does. You may use iframe shortcode to embed content from YouTube, Vimeo, Google Maps or from any external page. If you need to embed content from YouTube, Vimeo, SlideShare, SoundCloud, Twitter via direct link, you may use [embed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_nAZQt9qu0[/embed] shortcode. [embed] shortcode is a core WordPress feature and can embed content from many resources via direct link. Important: You can not embed HTTP pages into HTTPS pages and vice versa. So the protocol (http or httpS) for parent and embedded page should match. iframe params: src – source of the iframe: [iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/7_nAZQt9qu0"]; by default src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/7_nAZQt9qu0″; width – width in pixels or in percents: [iframe width="100%"] or [iframe width="600"]; by default width=”100%”; height – height in pixels: [iframe height="500"]; by default height=”500″; scrolling – with or without the scrollbar: [iframe scrolling="no"]; by default scrolling=”yes”; frameborder – with or without the frame border: [iframe frameborder="0"]; by default frameborder=”0″; marginheight – height of the margin: [iframe marginheight="0"]; removed by default; marginwidth – width of the margin: [iframe marginwidth="0"]; removed by default; allowtransparency – allows to set transparency of the iframe: [iframe allowtransparency="true"]; removed by default; id – allows to add the id of the iframe: [iframe id="custom_id"]; removed by default; class – allows to add the class of the iframe: [iframe class="custom_class"]; by default class=”iframe-class”; style – allows to add the css styles of the iframe: [iframe style="margin-left:-30px;"]; removed by default; same_height_as – allows to set the height of iframe same as target element: [iframe same_height_as="div.sidebar"], [iframe same_height_as="div#content"], [iframe same_height_as="body"], [iframe same_height_as="html"]; removed by default; any_other_param – allows to add new parameter of the iframe [iframe any_other_param="any_value"]; any_other_empty_param – allows to add new empty parameter of the iframe (like “allowfullscreen” on youtube) [iframe any_other_empty_param=""];