TinyMCE YouTube Embed vs YouList – YouTube playlist shortcode

If you want to embed YouTube videos in your posts but don’t want to copy the embed code every time, this plugin is here to help. This plugin integrates with the default WP editor (TinyMCE) and creates a YouTube button that can be easily used to embed YouTube videos. The only thing you need to embed a video is its URL. Any URL will do the job (long or short format). Enjoy this simple yet useful plugin which takes you one step towards easier blogging.

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