Insert Pages vs Simple YouTube Embed

Insert Pages lets you embed any WordPress content (e.g., pages, posts, custom post types) into other WordPress content using the Shortcode API. It also includes a widget for inserting pages into any widget area. The real power of Insert Pages comes when you start creating custom post types, either programmatically in your theme, or using another plugin like Custom Post Type UI. You can then abstract away common data types (like videos, quizzes, due dates) into their own custom post types, and then show those pieces of content within your normal pages and posts by Inserting them as a shortcode. Advanced Tutorial Contributor Wes Modes has graciously written an updated tutorial for the Gutenberg era, focused on creating a custom post type with custom fields and a custom template for rendering content. Read it here: https://medium.com/@wesmodes/using-wordpress-insert-pages-plugin-with-your-custom-post-types-and-custom-templates-535c141f9635 Example: Normal Use Case Say you teach a course and you’re constantly referring to an assignment due date in your course website. The next semester the due date changes, and you have to go change all of the locations you referred to it. Instead, you’d rather just change the date once! With Insert Pages, you can do the following: Create a custom post type called Due Date. Create a new Due Date called Assignment 1 Due Date with Fri Nov 22, 2013 as its content. Edit all the pages where the due date occurs and use the Insert Pages toolbar button to insert a reference to the Due Date you just created. Be sure to set the Display to Content so Fri Nov 22, 2013 shows wherever you insert it. The shortcode you just created should look something like this: [insert page='assignment-1-due-date' display='content'] That’s it! Now, when you want to change the due date, just edit the Assignment 1 Due Date custom post you created, and it will automatically be updated on all the pages you inserted it on. Example: Advanced Use Case Say your site has a lot of video content, and you want to include video transcripts and video lengths along with the videos wherever you show them. You could just paste the transcripts into the page content under the video, but then you’d have to do this on every page the video showed on. (It’s also just a bad idea, architecturally!) With Insert Pages, you can use a custom post type and create a custom theme template to display your videos+transcripts+lengths just the way you want! Create a custom post type called Video. Use a plugin like Advanced Custom Fields to add extra fields to your new Video custom post type. Add a Video URL field, a Transcript field, and a Video Length field. Create a new Video called My Awesome Video with the following values in its fields: Video URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0 Transcript: We’re no strangers to love, You know the rules and so do I… Video Length: 3:34 Create a template in your theme so we can display the video content as we want. I won’t cover this step here since it’s pretty involved, but you can find more help in the WordPress Codex. Let’s assume you created a template called Video with transcript (video-with-transcript.php) that shows the youtube video in a fancybox, and includes a button that shows the text transcript when a user clicks on it. Edit the pages where you want the video to show up and use the Insert Pages toolbar button to insert a reference to the Video you just created. Be sure to set the Display to Use a custom template, and select your new template Video with transcript. The shortcode you just created should look something like this: [insert page='my-awesome-video' display='video-with-transcript.php'] That’s it! Now you can create all sorts of video content and know that it’s being tracked cleanly in the database as its own custom post type, and you can place videos all over your site and not worry about lots of duplicate content. The possibilities are endless!

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