Lightweight and Responsive Youtube Embed vs YouList – YouTube playlist shortcode

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 adds the shortcode [youlist] so you can easily embed YouTube™ playlist defined by playlist id (PL in front of the playlist id) comma seperated video ids list user favorites user uploads search query in a single YouTube™ player. Live demo New in version 1.0.6 show random playlists with the new attribute ‘randompid’ added apply_filters for output, style, class and src bug fix New in version 1.0.5 enable nocookies enable the https protocol play videos in a specific quality (fx. hd720) enable wmode to handle z-index issues. Usage Examples To embed a playlist with thumbnails [youlist pid=”PL3FF15AA7ED356D9F”] To embed three videos with thumbnails (comma seperated video id list): [youlist vid=”ZF_K8D414-Y,sFHXWoawnt0,E2uOGOqIyC4″] To embed three videos without thumbnails: [youlist vid=”ZF_K8D414-Y,sFHXWoawnt0,E2uOGOqIyC4″ showinfo=”0″] To embed a playlist from the search string “higgs boson” [youlist search=”higgs boson” width=”600″ height=”400″] To embed a random playlist [youlist randompid=”PL3FF15AA7ED356D9F, PL9AEE7FF9E83DEA62, PL2B8DB1BD4364033F”] To embed a playlist for all uploaded videos for the user “mismag822″ [youlist uid=”mismag822″ listtype=”user_uploads”] To embed a playlist for all favorite videos for the user “mismag822″ [youlist uid=”mismag822″ listtype=”user_favorites”] To embed a playlist width your own custom style [youlist pid=”PL3FF15AA7ED356D9F” style=”width:300px;height:400px;z-index:1;”] To embed a user playlist with all the supported attributes (default values shown): [youlist uid=”mismag822″ randompid=”” showinfo=”1″ width=”680″ height=”480″ class=”youlist” autohide=”2″ autoplay=”0″ disablekb=”0″ listtype=”user_uploads” theme=”dark” modestbranding=”1″ controls=”1″ color=”red” fs=”1″ rel=”1″ start=”0″ loop=”0″ iv_load_policy=”1″ version=”3″ style=”” vq=”” nocookie=”0″ https=”0″ wmode=”” parameters=”” ] Ideas for how to use this plugin You can use it to display ad-video before or after the main video You can have your own short trailer before the main video You can collect lessons/tutorials/music videos You can use it for your YouTube™ playlist You can watch your friends favourites videos You can collect videos for your kid and watch it on your site … etc … Shortcode Parameters The youList-shortcode is a wrapper for most of the YouTube™ iframe parameters described here: https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters iframe parameters: width [integer] – iframe width in pixels height [integer] – iframe height in pixels class [string] – iframe css classname style [string] – iframe css custom style parameters [string] – custom source parameters (&param1=value1&…) youtube parameters: pid [string] – YouTube playlist ID uid [string] – YouTube user ID) vid [string] – Comma seperated YouTube Videos ID list randompid [string] – YouTube random playlist ID, from a comma seperated PID’s list listtype [playlist|user_uploads|search] – YouTube listtype search [string] – YouTube search string) theme [dark|light] – Dark or light control bar modestbranding [0|1] – Prevent the YouTube logo from displaying in the control bar showinfo [0|1] – Display thumbnail images for the videos in the playlist autohide [0|1|2] – Hide the video controls automatically after a video begins playing autoplay [0|1] – The initial video will autoplay when the player loads disablekb [0|1] – Disable the player keyboard controls controls [0|1|2] – Display the video player controls color [red|white] – The color in the video progress bar fs [0|1] – Display the fullscreen button rel [0|1] – Show related videos when playback of the initial video ends start [integer] – Play the video at the given number of seconds from the start of the video loop [0|1] – Play the entire playlist and then start again at the first video iv_load_policy [1|3] – Show video annotations version [2|3] – AS player version https [0|1] – Enable the https protocol nocookie [0|1] – No cookies thank you vq [small|medium|large|hd720|hd1080] – Change video quality