Lightweight and Responsive Youtube Embed vs WP Photo Album Plus

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

This plugin is more than just a photo album plugin, it is a complete, highly customizable multimedia content management and display system. Features: Any number of albums that contain any type of multimedia file as well as sub albums. Full control over the display sizes, responsive as well as static. Full control over links from any type of image. Full control over metadata: exif, iptc can be used by keywords in item descriptions. Up to 10 custom defined meta data fields, for albums and for media items. Front-end uploads. Bulk imports. Built-in lightbox overlay system. Built-in Google Maps to display maps based on the photo gpx exif data. Built-in search functions on a.o. keywords and tags. A customizable rating system. Commenting system. Moderate user uploads and comments. Configurable email notification system. 20 widgets a.o. upload, slideshow, photo of the day, top rated and commented items and many more. Supports Cloudinary cloud storage service. Supports Fotomoto print service. Required maintenace is fully executed by background processes (cron jobs). Extended error/event logging system. Extended documentation site: https://wppa.nl/ Plugin Admin Features: You can find the plugin admin section under Menu Photo Albums on the admin screen. Albums: Create and manage Albums. Upload: To upload photos to an album you created. Import: To bulk import items to an album that are previously been ftp’d. Moderate: Change status of pending Export: To export albums Settings: To control the various settings to customize your needs. photo of the day widget settings Help & Info: Credits and link to the documentation site Translations: Dutch translation by OpaJaap himself (Opa Jaap’s Weblog) Slovak translation by Branco Radenovich (WebHostingGeeks.com) Polish translation by Maciej Matysiak Ukranian translation by Michael Yunat (http://getvoip.com) Italian translation by Giacomo Mazzullo (http://gidibao.net & http://charmingpress.com) German translation by Stefan Eggers Portuguese translation by Eric Sornoso (https://Mealfan.com) Privacy Policy When you leave a comment on a photo or other media item on this site, we send your name, email address, IP address and comment text to the server. When you enter a rating on a photo or other media item on this site, we send your (login)name or IP address and your rating to the server. When you upload a photo or other media item on this site, we send your name to the server. If the photo contains EXIF or IPTC data, this data may – dependant of the configuration – be saved on the server. If the photo contains GPX location data, this data will be saved on the server. If visit the site, the pages you visit, the photos you watch and your IP address will be saved on the server for statistical purposes in your session information. This information will be anonimized after one hour and removed after 24 hours. About and Credits WP Photo Album Plus is extended with many new features and is maintained by J.N. Breetvelt, ( http://www.opajaap.nl/ ) a.k.a. OpaJaap Thanx to R.J. Kaplan for WP Photo Album 1.5.1, the basis of this plugin. Licence WP Photo Album is released under the GNU GPL licence. ( http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html )