Meta Embeds vs YouList – YouTube playlist shortcode

Meta Embeds is the official WordPress plugin for embedding social media content from Meta Platforms. Paste a Threads, Instagram, or Facebook URL into the WordPress editor and it automatically renders a rich preview of the media content. Zero configuration required. No app creation, no access tokens, no API keys. Install the plugin and it just works. Features Threads Embeds: Paste a Threads post URL and get a rich, interactive embed. Instagram Embeds: Paste an Instagram image, video, or carousel post URL and get a rich, interactive embed. Facebook Embeds: Paste a Facebook post or reel URL and get a rich, interactive embed. Block Editor Support: Dedicated “Threads”, “Instagram”, and “Facebook” embed blocks with a live preview. Classic Editor Support: Auto-embeds Threads, Instagram, and Facebook URLs via WordPress oEmbed. Lightweight: No external dependencies, no settings page, no bloat. Tokenless: Uses Meta’s tokenless oEmbed APIs for instant, frictionless embeds. Supported URL Formats Threads: Post Permalink: https://www.threads.com/@{username}/post/{media-shortcode}/ Shorthand Post URL: https://www.threads.com/t/{media-shortcode}/ Instagram: Image and Carousel Posts: https://www.instagram.com/p/{media-shortcode}/ Reels: https://www.instagram.com/reel/{media-shortcode}/ Profiles: https://www.instagram.com/{username}/ Facebook: Posts: https://www.facebook.com/{username}/posts/{post-id}/ Reels: https://www.facebook.com/reel/{reel-id}/ Privacy This plugin registers Meta’s oEmbed API endpoints as providers in WordPress. When a Threads, Instagram, or Facebook URL is embedded: WordPress makes a server-side request to graph.threads.com/oembed (Threads), graph.facebook.com/v25.0/instagram_oembed (Instagram), graph.facebook.com/v25.0/oembed_post (Facebook posts), or graph.facebook.com/v25.0/oembed_video (Facebook videos) to fetch the embed HTML. The embed HTML includes a script tag that loads threads.com/embed.js, instagram.com/embed.js, or connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js on the frontend to render the embed. No user data is collected or stored by this plugin. Frontend embed rendering is subject to Meta’s Privacy Policy. Access to and use of this plugin is subject to Meta Platform Terms, Developer Policies, and Meta’s Community Standards, together with all other applicable terms and policies.

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