Contests by Rewards Fuel vs WP YouTube Live

Contests by Rewards Fuel connects your WordPress site to the Rewards Fuel platform. Use this plugin to embed live contests on any post or page. Create contests, entry methods, prizes, and rules in the Rewards Fuel web dashboard — the plugin handles connection and embedding. What this plugin does Connect your site with an API key from Account → WordPress Integration in the dashboard View your contests inside WordPress admin → Rewards Fuel Copy a shortcode or use the Rewards Fuel Contest Gutenberg block Embed the contest widget on posts, pages, and most themes Link out to the dashboard to edit contests, view stats, and pick winners What you build in Rewards Fuel (not inside WordPress) Contest schedule, rules, prizes, and appearance Entry methods (social actions, newsletter signup, questions, referrals, and more — by plan) Hosted contest page at r-f.page or embed on your own site Statistics, CSV export, winner selection, and prize claim flow Popular entry methods Available entry methods depend on your plan. Examples include: Click to enter — simple one-click entry Newsletter signup — collect email addresses (with optional confirmation for newsletter entries) Refer a friend — bonus entries when friends enter via a share link Answer a question — collect feedback or quiz answers Visit a URL — drive traffic to a landing page Code word — entrants enter a secret phrase Social actions — Instagram, Facebook, X/Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, Reddit, LinkedIn, Discord, Telegram, Twitch, and more (link-based actions; availability varies by plan) Email list member — allow pre-approved emails on your contest list to enter File upload — photo or document submissions Platform features (dashboard) Physical and digital prizes — upload digital prize files; winners claim online Geo restrictions — block selected countries from entering Bot protection — optional Cloudflare Turnstile per contest Custom appearance — colors, fonts, backgrounds, and widget wording 11 widget languages — English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese Contest statistics — entries, methods, countries, traffic, referrers, device breakdown, and entrant summaries CSV export — download confirmed entrants from the dashboard Winner tools — random or manual winner selection; optional auto-pick and winner notification emails when the contest ends Scheduled draws — weekly, daily, or end-of-contest prize draws while live Copy a contest — duplicate setup for your next campaign Embed on WordPress After connecting your API key, embed any contest with: [rewardsfuel id="YOUR_CONTEST_REF"] Legacy shortcodes still work: [rf_contest id="123"] Or add the Rewards Fuel Contest block in the block editor. Pricing Rewards Fuel offers a free tier plus paid plans with more entry methods and stats. All paid plans include unlimited contests and entries. See current pricing at rewardsfuel.com/pricing. Get started Create a free account Create a contest in the dashboard Generate an API key under Account → WordPress Integration In WordPress: Rewards Fuel → Your account → paste your key Copy the shortcode from Rewards Fuel → Contests into any post or page Questions? Email [email protected]. Translations Widget copy supports 11 languages (configured per contest in the dashboard). The WordPress plugin admin UI is English.

Displays the current YouTube live video from a specified channel via the shortcode [youtube_live]. Setup Notes Your YouTube livestream must be set to “Public” or it will not work. This is a security feature of YouTube’s API and unfortunately there’s no way to work around it. In addition, your live stream must be set to allow embedding on third-party sites. If that feature is unavailable, you may need to enable monetization for your account. See YouTube documentation for more information or help with allowing embedding. How It Works If no live video is available, you can display a specified video or a “channel player” showing all your recent videos. You can also enable auto-refresh to automatically check for a live video every 30 seconds (warning: will increase server load, so use with caution). By default, the server will check YouTube’s API and then cache that response for 15 minutes before checking the API again (you may change this value in the admin settings). If auto-refresh is enabled, clients will check against your server every 30 seconds and likely will hit that cache as well, so it can potentially take up to 16 minutes before a client will get a live video. The length of both caches can be changed using the wp_youtube_live_transient_timeout filter (see below for more information). If no live video is available when a page is loaded, several fallback options are available: “Show a custom HTML message” allows you to specify a custom message to show “Show scheduled live videos” will show a player and countdown until your next live video “Show last completed live video” will show your most recently-completed live video “Show recent videos from my channel” will show a playlist of recent videos from your channel “Show a specified playlist” will show a specified playlist “Show a specified video” will show a specified video “Show nothing at all” will show nothing at all When a video ends, users’ browsers will check your server again to see if a live video is available. If so, it will load that; if not, it will fall back as set in your options. Shortcode Options width: player width in pixels; defaults to what you set on the settings page height: player height in pixels; defaults to what you set on the settings page autoplay: whether or not to start playing immediately on load; defaults to false auto_refresh: (either true or false) overrides the auto-refresh setting on the settings page fallback_behavior: choose from the following: upcoming, completed, channel, playlist, video, message, no_message upcoming: the next upcoming scheduled video on the specified channel playlist: a specified playlist (shortcode must also include the fallback_playlist attribute) video: a specified video (shortcode must also include the fallback_video attribute) message: a specified message no_message: nothing at all fallback_playlist: a playlist URL to show when there are no live videos fallback_video: a video URL to show when there are no live videos fallback_message: a message to show when there are no live videos js_only: (either true or false) workaround for some caching issues; if a caching plugin (W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache, etc.) or proxy (CloudFlare, etc.) caches the HTML while a video is live, visitors may continue to see an old live video even if it has ended. If set js_only is set to true, the server never displays the player code in the initial request and instead sends it in response to uncached ajax requests. This may also result in the video player being slightly delayed on page load due to the extra request, depending on the clients’ bandwidth and latency. Example shortcode: [youtube_live width="720" height="360" autoplay="true"] Filters The filter wp_youtube_live_no_stream_available will customize the message viewers see if there is no live stream currently playing, and takes effect after the fallback_message shortcode attribute is parsed (if fallback_message="no_message" is set in a shortcode, it will override the filter). For example, add this to your theme’s functions.php file: add_filter( 'wp_youtube_live_no_stream_available', 'my_ytl_custom_message' ); function my_ytl_custom_message( $message ) { $message = ' Please check back later or subscribe to our YouTube channel . Check again '; return $message; } The filter wp_youtube_live_transient_timeout is available to customize the cache timeout length in seconds. For example, add this to your theme’s functions.php file to set the cache length to 15 seconds instead of the default 900: add_filter( 'wp_youtube_live_transient_timeout', 'my_ytl_custom_timeout' ); function my_ytl_custom_timeout( $timeout ) { return 15; } Event Listener When a live stream is loaded, the wpYouTubeLiveStarted event is fired; you can use this to create custom front-end features on your site by adding an event listener: window.addEventListener('wpYouTubeLiveStarted', function() { /* your code here */ console.log('stream started'); /* your code here */ }); Development of this plugin is done on GitHub. Pull requests are always welcome.