Featured Image from URL (FIFU) vs Lightweight and Responsive Youtube Embed

WordPress plugin for remote featured images, videos, audios and more FIFU plugin has helped thousands of websites worldwide save money on storage, processing, and copyright since 2015. If you are tired of wasting time and resources with thumbnail regeneration, image optimization, and never-ending imports, this plugin is for you. Featured image Use a remote image as featured image of your post, page or custom post type. Remote featured image Optimized images Make all images square Image search (Unsplash) Default featured image Hide featured media Modify post content Auto set image title Column for featured image [PRO] Image search (search engine) [PRO] Disable right-click [PRO] Save in the media library [PRO] Replace not found image [PRO] Custom popup [PRO] bbPress and BuddyBoss Platform integration [PRO] Page redirection Automatic featured media Auto set featured media from post content [PRO] Auto set featured image using post title and a search engine [PRO] Auto set featured media using web page address [PRO] Auto set product images from ASIN [PRO] Auto set featured media from custom field [PRO] Auto set featured image using ISBN [PRO] Auto set screenshot as featured image [PRO] Auto set featured image from Unsplash using tags [PRO] Auto-share on social media Automation WP-CLI integration [PRO] Add-on for WP All Import [PRO] WooCommerce import [PRO] WP REST API [PRO] WooCommerce REST API [PRO] Schedule metadata generation WooCommerce Remote product image Lightbox and zoom [PRO] Gallery for remote images [PRO] Gallery for remote videos [PRO] Category images auto set [PRO] Variable product [PRO] Variation image [PRO] Gallery for variation image [PRO] Save in the media library [PRO] FIFU product gallery [PRO] Quick Buy [PRO] Add image to order email Featured video Supports URLs from YouTube, Vimeo, Twitter, 9GAG, Cloudinary, Tumblr, Publitio, JW Player, VideoPress, Sprout, Odysee, Rumble, Dailymotion, Cloudflare Stream, Bunny Stream, Amazon, BitChute, Brighteon, Google Drive, Spotify and SoundCloud. External and local video files are supported as well. [PRO] Featured video [PRO] Watch later [PRO] Video thumbnail [PRO] Play button [PRO] Minimum width [PRO] Video controls [PRO] Autoplay on mouseover [PRO] Autoplay [PRO] Playback loop [PRO] Mute [PRO] Privacy enhanced mode [PRO] Background video Widgets for Elementor Featured image [PRO] Featured video Widgets for WordPress [PRO] Featured media [PRO] Featured grid [PRO] Product gallery Fields for Gravity-Forms Featured image [PRO] Featured video [PRO] Featured slider Fields for Dokan Featured image [PRO] Product gallery Others [PRO] Quick edit [PRO] Featured audio [PRO] Featured slider [PRO] Shortcode [PRO] Taxonomy image Functions for developers fifu_dev_set_image($post_id, $image_url) [PRO] fifu_dev_set_video($post_id, $video_url) [PRO] fifu_dev_set_slider($post_id, $url_list, $alt_list) [PRO] fifu_dev_set_image_list($post_id, $image_url_list) [PRO] fifu_dev_set_video_list($post_id, $video_url_list) [PRO] fifu_dev_set_category_image($term_id, $image_url) [PRO] fifu_dev_set_category_video($term_id, $video_url) FIFU Cloud Cloud storage (never lose an image again) Global CDN (images loaded much faster) Optimized thumbnails (processed in the cloud) Usage-based billing (per stored image) Smart cropping (detects people and objects before cropping) Hotlink protection (sites can’t embed your images) Links FIFU PRO Dummy site for testing Extension for Google Chrome Smoke Test

If you are embedding Youtube video(s) into your site then you will need this plugin. As you may (or may not) know the default Youtube embed code is not responsive and in order to load the player itself your browser has to download more than 1MB of data from Youtube’s servers. That is way too much and this is the reason why we made this plugin. A video player has to be lightweight and responsive. Period. This plugin is replacing the default Youtube player with the video’s high quality thumbnail and a play button. The real player and the video won’t load until you click on the play button or the thumbnail itself. With this easy trick you will have a much lighter and faster website and the thumbnail + the actual player will be responsive too. Our plugin is only 60KB without any extra library or unnecessary function. If you are speed-optimizing your site or if you want to reduce the loading times of your pages then you are at the right place. This plugin will: Make all of the embedded Youtube videos responsive automatically Will reduce the size of your pages (where you have embedded videos) Will make your site faster Will improve the user experience You can also: Manually insert a different thumbnail for each embedded video with the ‘thumb_url’ parameter. [youtube_embed url=”video_url” thumb-url=”custom_thumb_url”] Manually set a different width for each video with the ‘width’ parameter. [youtube_embed url=”video_url” width=”50″] Manually align each video to left, right or center with the ‘align’ parameter. [youtube_embed url=”video_url” align=”center”] Disable the related videos Disable the video controls Disable the fullscreen option Align the videos globally or individually Set the custom video width for all videos or to just a single video with a shortcode parameter Comparison Here’s a quick comparison with the built-in TwentySeventeen theme (without any other plugin). We placed a default Youtube video embed code in a new and empty page, ran the tests and then replaced it with our solution before running the tests again. Total page size with the traditional Youtube embed code: 2.18MB Total page size with our lightweight & responsive embedder: 472KB Page load time with the traditional Youtube embed code: 5.33s Page load time with our lightweight & responsive embedder: 2.52s