BuddyMeet vs YouTube Sidebar

BuddyMeet is a BuddyPress (2.5+) plugin that uses Jitsi Meet to allow the members of a community to participate into virtual conference rooms with video and audio capabilities. BuddyMeet’s features include: A room where all members of a group can meet each other On demand rooms among specific invited group members Automatic customization of the room’s subject and the name/avatar of the participants Customization of all the parameters that Jitsi Meet API supports Support for RS256-signed JWT authentication. This enables secure connections to 8×8 JaaS (8×8.vc domain) and self-hosted Jitsi servers using RSA SHA-256 verified tokens. Moreover, you can use the shortcode [buddymeet room=ROOM_HERE subject=SUBJECT_HERE] to add a conference room to any WordPress page. In that case, you have to pass any configuration by using the following shortcode parameters: domain: The domain of the Jitsi Meet installation. BuddyMeet uses by default the 8×8.vc service. room: The identifier of the room. subject: The subject of the room. If empty the room is being displayed as the subject. password: A password for the room. The first to enter the room sets that password and all other participants have to put it to enter. show_watermark: Whether to show the Jitsi.org watermark or not. show_brand_watermark: Whether to show a custom branded watermark or not. brand_watermark_link: the custom brand watermark to show. width: The width of the embedded window. height: The height of the embedded window. start_audio_only: Start the meet with the microphone only enabled and the camera off. film_strip_only: Start the meet in filmstrip only mode. disable_video_quality_label: Disable the video quality indicator. mobile_open_in_browser: Launch the meet directly within the browser in mobile devices without opening the jitsi mobile app. user: The user to display. Leave empty to automatically set the display name of the logged-in user. avatar: The url with the avatar to display. Leave empty to automatically set the avatar of the logged-in user. settings: A csv with the Jitsi Meet settings to get enabled. For the available options check here toolbar: A csv with the Jitsi Meet toolbar options to get enabled. For the available options check here. background_color: The background color of the window default_language: The default language of the Jitsi Meet interface. BuddyMeet uses by default the 8×8.vc service which is maintained by the Jitsi team at 8×8. Upon the initialization of a room, BuddyMeet sends the following information to the service: The name of the current buddypress group as the subject of the call The name, the surname and the avatar of the currently logged-in user However, if you want to use your own hosted installation of Jitsi Meet, you can just configure the corresponding domain via the “Manage” menu of a BuddyPress group. For more information about Jitsi Meet please follow the links below: What is Jitsi? FAQ Jitsi Meet API Jitsi License Jitsi Community Forum 8×8 Terms and Conditions and Policies This plugin is currently available only in english.

YouTube Plugins are nothing new but I like to add my own approach to every plugin. This plugin allows the insertion of a video ID for displaying with a specific post. The video is displayed instantly. This differs from plugins that may allow a single video to be added using an entire widget – not great use of a widget in my opinion. The YouTube widget management would become very busy if every widget was THAT basic. So the widgets in YouTube Sidebar will handle multiple videos and even ads when no videos are available. If this still is not enough. Try my Video Blogger plugin which allows the display of videos from other streaming sites and offers other unique approaches to video management. Main Plugin Links Plugins Portal Features List Two widgets, only need to use one. Display different videos per post. Multiple videos per post. Display an ad when post has no video. Request Features If you need a tool or an existing plugin customized. Please post it in this plugins forum and I will do my best to add the service to this plugin in the way you need it. Languages Translators needed to help localize YouTube Sidebar. Donators These donators have giving their permission to add their site to this list so that plugin authors can request their support for their own project. Please do not request donations but instead visit their site, show interest and tell them about your own plugin – you may get lucky. Ryan Bayne from WebTechGlobal Version Numbers and Updating Explanation of versioning used by myself Ryan Bayne. The versioning scheme I use is called “Semantic Versioning 2.0.0” and more information about it can be found at http://semver.org/ These are the rules followed to increase the YouTube Sidebar plugin version number. Given a version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, increment the: MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes, MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards-compatible manner, and PATCH version when you make backwards-compatible bug fixes. Additional labels for pre-release and build metadata are available as extensions to the MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH format.