oEmbed Manager
oEmbed Manager helps you to: allow/disallow other websites to embed your content; conditionally allow/disallow the display of embedded content on your site; fine tune the way oEmbed operates in the WordPress core; list, clear and update/create oEmbed cached items. To conditionally allow/disallow the display of embedded content, oEmbed Manager fully integrates with: Cookie Consent Cookie Notice for GDPR Do Not Track Stats EU Cookie Law GDPR GDPR Cookie Compliance GDPR Cookie Consent If you use one of these plugins, you can set oEmbed to display embedded content only when a visitor has agreed your cookie or privacy policy, or when she/he has not set the Do Not Track flag of her/his browser. oEmbed Manager is part of PerfOps One, a suite of free and open source WordPress plugins dedicated to observability and operations performance. Privacy This plugin, as any piece of software, is neither compliant nor non-compliant with privacy laws and regulations. It is your responsibility to use it with respect for the personal data of your users and applicable laws. This plugin doesn’t set any cookie in the user’s browser. This plugin doesn’t handle personally identifiable information (PII). Donation If you like this plugin or find it useful and want to thank me for the work done, please consider making a donation to La Quadrature Du Net or the Electronic Frontier Foundation which are advocacy groups defending the rights and freedoms of citizens on the Internet. By supporting them, you help the daily actions they perform to defend our fundamental freedoms!
Space Lightplay
Every embedded YouTube video adds weight to your page — external scripts, iframes, tracking pixels — even if the visitor never presses Play. Space Lightplay fixes that. Drop the block into any post or page, paste a YouTube video URL, and Space Lightplay renders a static preview image with a customizable Play button. The actual iframe is injected only when the visitor clicks. No JavaScript frameworks, no third-party requests until interaction. Why it matters: Pages with 3–5 embedded videos can save 2–4 MB of initial page weight and dozens of network requests. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and Time to Interactive (TTI) improve because heavy iframes no longer block rendering. Privacy improves too — no cookies or tracking scripts load until the visitor explicitly chooses to play. What you get: One block, one job — lazy-load YouTube video embeds with zero configuration required. Custom poster image — upload any image from the Media Library or use the automatic YouTube thumbnail. Aspect ratio control — 16:9, 4:3, 1:1, 9:16 (vertical/Shorts), or 21:9 cinematic. Start time — set a starting timecode, or paste a YouTube URL with ?t=… and it fills automatically. Above-the-fold mode — disables lazy-load on the preview image for hero videos, improving LCP. Hover prefetch — opens connections to YouTube the instant the cursor lands on the block, so the iframe loads noticeably faster on click. No extra config. Play button styling — control size, button shape (circle, rounded, square), triangle corner roundness, background color, icon color, and hover states using the native WordPress color picker with full theme palette support. Block style variations — Minimal, Bold, and Glass presets in one click. Pulse animation — optional hover effect to draw attention to the Play button. Thumbnail quality — choose between standard and maximum resolution thumbnails. Accessible by default — full keyboard navigation, ARIA attributes, optional descriptive title for screen readers, visible focus indicators, RTL support, and prefers-reduced-motion support. Noscript fallback — visitors without JavaScript get a direct link to the YouTube video (with timecode preserved). Responsive — chosen aspect ratio adapts to any container width. Clean uninstall — removing the plugin leaves no options, transients, or database entries behind. For developers: Space Lightplay uses register_block_type_from_metadata() with a standard block.json manifest. All assets are declared in block.json and enqueued automatically by WordPress. The plugin adds zero global hooks, filters, admin pages, or database entries. Output is a server-rendered block via render.php.
