Content Mask vs Simple YouTube Embed

Read More & View Demos Here Embed Any Content†‡ Into Your WordPress Website Content Mask allows you to embed any external content onto your own WordPress Pages, Posts, and Custom Post Types. The end result is fairly similar to setting up a Domain Mask, but the content is embedded into the front end of your website and is fully contained inside your WordPress permalink ecosystem. Example: If you built a landing page on landing-page-builder.com/your-landing-page/, you can simply create a new Page on your website at your-site.com/landing-page/ and paste in the URL of your landing page. The Content Mask plugin will then download and cache of copy of your landing page directly on your website, so any visitors that come to your-site.com/landing-page/ will see the landing page you built. This allows you to keep all of your links integrated into your WordPress Website. † Do not use Content Mask to embed any content that you do not own or do not otherwise have license to share, embed, frame, or distribute. Simple 2-Step UI With a simple 2-Step UI, you can embed any external content into your website without any complicated URL Forwarding, DNS Records, or .htaccess rules to mess with. Just enable the Content Mask on any Page, Post, or Custom Post type by clicking on the check mark. Then put in the URL that contains the content you want to embed. It’s that simple! Powerful Embedding and Redirect Options Using the Download method (default) will fetch the content from the Content Mask URL, cache it on your website, and replace the current page request with that content. By default, this cache lasts 4 hours – but it can be changed anywhere from “Never Cache” all the way up to “Cache for 4 Weeks”. Caching prevents the need for additional requests that slow down your site. Using the Iframe method will replace the current page request with a full width/height, frameless iframe containing the host URL. This method is ideal if the URL you want to embed won’t serve scripts, styles, or images to other URLs or IP Addresses. If you use the Download Method, and links or images look broken, you can try the Iframe method instead. Using the Redirect (301) method will simply redirect the visitor to the host URL. Simple Integrated Vistor Tracking In the Content Mask admin panel, you can enable tracking for Content Masked pages. This will allow you to see how many visitors are viewing these links. This is ideal for when you need to track acquisition, such as on a Landing Page. [Views] shows how many times that Content Mask page has been viewed by anybody (even logged in users) [Non-User] shows how many times it’s been viewed by visitors that are not logged in to the website. [Unique] shows how many times it’s been viewed by unique IP addresses. Note: IP addresses are one-way hashed and are not identifiable in any way. Creating a Content Masked Page Using the Content Mask Admin Panel Notes: Do NOT use Content Mask on any content you aren’t explicitly authorized to share or use. Please confirm you’re allowed to utilize and embed the content before embedding any particular URL. Content embedded using the Download method is cached using the WordPress Transients API for 4 hours by default. If the content on the external URL is updated and you would like a fresh copy, you may just click the “Update” button on the Page, Post, or Custom Post Type to refresh the transient, or click the “Refresh” link in the Content Mask Admin panel. You may also change the cache expiration timer per page anywhere from “Never” to “4 weeks”. You may use the Transients Manager plugin to manage transients stored with the Download method. All Content Mask related transients contain the prefix “content_mask-” plus a stripped version of the Content Mask URL, such as “content_mask-httpxhynkcom”. ‡ Your site may be prevented from processing page requests for any reason; Reasons include, but are not limited to: masking unauthorized content, at the request of the masked URL site owner, masking hateful content, masking illegal content, circumventing IP bans, etc. A dual one-way encrypted hash of your masking URL may be used to check for infraction. No identifying information will be used for this check, and no information is saved other than as a transient to prevent unnecessary duplicate checks per site Read More About Content Mask

Simple YouTube Embed plugin is the easiest way to embed YouTube videos in WordPress. This plugin extends the default YouTube embed with advanced player parameters. Unlike other YouTube plugins, It doesn’t replace your on-page video embed code with JavaScript/HTML code. Loading a video with JavaScript doesn’t provide any video SEO benefit as a search engine crawler will only see some code instead of the actual video object. Simple YouTube Embed is easy to use because there is no setting to configure. It uses the oEmbed API so your videos will be responsive and provide all the benefits that core WordPress YouTube embed has to offer. YouTube videos on your website will continue to work even if you choose to deactivate the plugin. Features Responsive and mobile friendly. Proper YouTube video embed with no additional JavaScript code. No setting to configure. Install, activate and start using it. No YouTube API key needed. Embed YouTube videos in WordPress with the YouTube block. Automatically play a video. Enable/Disable display of suggested videos when the video finishes. Enable/Disable player controls. Enable/Disable fullscreen. Mute a YouTube Video. Simple YouTube Embed Extensions YouTube Advanced Parameters How to Use the YouTube Embed Plugin in WordPress Create a new post/page and add a YouTube block. Copy and paste the YouTube video URL into it. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpg9yizPP_g YouTube Video Autoplay In order to automatically play a video you can add “autoplay=1” to your YouTube URL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpg9yizPP_g&autoplay=1 Related YouTube Videos In order to disable related videos from showing you can add “rel=0” to your YouTube URL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpg9yizPP_g&rel=0 YouTube Video Controls If you do not want to show player controls you can add “controls=0” to your YouTube URL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpg9yizPP_g&controls=0 YouTube Video Fullscreen If you do not want to allow fullscreen option in the player you can add “fs=0” to your YouTube URL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpg9yizPP_g&fs=0 YouTube Video Mute To start a video in the muted state you can add “mute=1” to your YouTube URL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpg9yizPP_g&mute=1 YouTube Video Playlist If you want to turn a video into a single-video playlist you can add “playlist=VIDEO_ID” to your YouTube URL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpg9yizPP_g&playlist=Vpg9yizPP_g YouTube Video IV Load Policy To not show video annotations by default you can add “iv_load_policy=3” to your YouTube URL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpg9yizPP_g&iv_load_policy=3 Video annotations are shown by default. YouTube Advanced Parameters With the Advanced Parameters extension you can use additional advanced parameters in your YouTube videos. color This parameter specifies the color that will be used in the player’s video progress bar to highlight the amount of the video that the viewer has already seen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpg9yizPP_g&color=white Valid parameter values are red and white, and, by default, the player uses the color red in the video progress bar. Note: Setting the color parameter to white will disable the modestbranding option. disablekb Setting this parameter’s value to 1 causes the player to not respond to keyboard controls. The default value is 0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpg9yizPP_g&disablekb=1 end This parameter specifies the time, measured in seconds from the start of the video, when the player should stop playing the video. The parameter value is a positive integer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpg9yizPP_g&end=10 The time is measured from the beginning of the video and not from the value of the start player parameter. start This parameter causes the player to begin playing the video at the given number of seconds from the start of the video. The parameter value is a positive integer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpg9yizPP_g&start=5 loop This parameter causes the video to play repeatedly. The parameter value is a positive integer (e.g. loop=”1″). In order for the loop feature to work, the video needs to be turned into a single-video playlist as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpg9yizPP_g&playlist=Vpg9yizPP_g&loop=1 For documentation please visit the YouTube plugin page