Embed YouTube Block – Fast Loading Videos, Shorts & Playlists vs Odyno GoogleGroups

The default embed block for YouTube videos sucks. It slows down your site. The more videos on the page the more it slow. This single-block plugin fixes that. Why this block is better than the default one: Instead of loading the entire iframe, only the video thumbnail is loaded, resulting in significant performance improvements Ability to play multiple different videos as a custom playlist or input a playlist ID to play the whole playlist Ability to use a custom image as the video thumbnail Ability to set a custom aspect ratio value for displaying any kind of YouTube videos Ability to loop continuously once it finishes playing Ability to show related videos from the same channel as the initial video Automatically load the video title as the caption The same UI as the default core/embed, and you can use the video title as the caption of the block with one click It can be transformed from/to the core embed block. Automatically convert all default core embed YouTube blocks to this block with one line of code. This plugin also provides a PHP API for developers to render a YouTube video URL as this block; or to automatically transform core/embed YouTube videos into this block. The simplest example is: better_youtube_embed_block_render_block( ['url' => 'https://youtu.be/paSXmpHU9K4'] ); The example with all the parameters is: better_youtube_embed_block_render_block( [ 'url' => 'https://youtu.be/paSXmpHU9K4', 'aspectRatio' => '16/9', 'isMaxResThumbnail' => false, 'thumbnailFormat' => 'jpg', 'caption' => 'My awesome video', 'caption_kses' => false, 'customThumbnail' => 'https://example.com/bg.jpg', 'settings' => ['loop' => 1, 'rel' => 0], 'echo' => false, ] ); To automatically transform all core/embed YouTube videos on your site to this block, you need to put the following code to the wp-config.php file or your theme/plugin: define('BYEB_SPEED_UP_YOUTUBE_VIDEOS', true); or add_filter( 'byeb_speed_up_youtube_videos', '__return_true' ); On iOS, browsers like Safari and Chrome require two clicks to play videos. If you want to allow users to play videos with a single click, you need to add the following code to the wp-config.php file or your theme/plugin: define('BYEB_FORCE_IFRAME_ON_UNSUPPORTED_BROWSERS', true); Please check out this page to see how fast it helps. The page contains around 30 embedded YouTube videos but they don’t slow down the page. If this plugin is useful for you, please do a quick review and rate it on WordPress.org to help us spread the word. I would very much appreciate it. Please check out my other plugins if you’re interested: Content Blocks Builder – Build custom layouts and blocks visually in the Block Editor without needing a code editor, using only core blocks and native Gutenberg features. Meta Field Block – A single block to display custom fields in the Block Editor without coding. It supports ACF, MetaBox, WooCommerce, meta, rest field, shortcode and more. Works everywhere: in the Site Editor (FSE), the Block Editor, inside Query Loop, WooCommerce Product Collection, Term Query blocks, and even in template files. SVG Block – A block to display SVG images as blocks. Useful for images, icons, dividers, and buttons. It allows you to upload SVG images and load them into the icon library. Icon separator – A tiny block just like the core/separator block but with the ability to add an icon. Breadcrumb Block – A simple breadcrumb trail block that supports JSON-LD structured data and is compatible with WooCommerce. Block Enhancements – Adds practical features to blocks like icons, box shadows, transforms, etc. Counting Number Block – A block to display numbers with a counting effect The plugin is developed using @wordpress/create-block.

The OdynoGoogleGroups embed the Google Groups on WordPress! You can see all discussion on your article or WordPress page. All you must do is to add a shortcode on your page editor! Demo features API for the extensions Embed your “custom domain” Google Group on WordPress page/post Embed public Google Group forum on WordPress page/post Widget with last messages of group. It’s easy To add gGroups on page/post add this shortcode,just swap “name-of-group” with your group name [google-groups name=”my-group-name”] To add widgets into sidebar Go to Appearance -> Widgets -> Google Groups Widget It’s opened to extensions You can use it on your plugin or into “Page Template” (see Page Templates « WordPress Codex ) with the function do_odyno_google_groups(…) or with 4 custom actions!! (see one example on plugin Home Site or on plugin admin section) How to use it? It’s very easy! You can add the group forum on your page in only three steps! Add page Set follow code on post editor [google_groups name=”name-of-groups”] just swap “name-of-group” with your group name And now.. that’s all… go to the preview! Configure it If you want to control the view, you can add these attributes on shortcode id: unique id of groups (default is random number) name: name of groups (default is random number) width: the width of page (default is 100%) height: the height of page (default is 800px) domain: the name of domain of groups (default none) showsearch: whether to show an embedded search box on destination forum pages. (default is false) hideforumtitle: if you want to show the forum title and description, false if you don’t want to show the title or description (default is true) hidesubject: if you want to hide the subject of the last post in My Forums view, false if you want to leave the subject visible (default is true) showtabs: whether to show tabs for changing views (e.g., to the Members view), on destination forum pages (default is false) For designers If you want customize the style of view, you can add css and use the hook!! For developer You can use the Odyno Google Groups on your plugin! Otherwise you can use it on your current theme. In according to Codex, you can modify the current theme with “Child Themes « WordPress Codex”, with a new “Page Templates « WordPress Codex” or simply modify directly the php file of theme. In any of this case you can add a invocation of function do_odyno_google_groups() and you will have same action of shortcode. Also the parameters of function are the same of shortcode. Otherwise on your plugin or on your function.php you can add one hook to one of 4 action and you can run your custom code. The allowed action are show below and all action have the same parameter of do_odyno_google_groups() function: pre_ogg_show action. It’s called before do_odyno_google_groups() function post_ogg_show action. It’s called after do_odyno_google_groups() function pre_ogg_shortcode action. It’s called before invocation of all shortcode [google_groups] post_ogg_shortcode action. It’s called after invocation of all shortcode [google_groups] Credits Copyright 2012 Alessandro Staniscia (email : [email protected]) This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA