Velocity – Video Lazy Loading for YouTube, Twitch and Vimeo
Velocity is an alternative loading method to the standard to YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch and Soundcloud iframe embeds. With Velocity you will decrease the loading time and increase overall performance of your website by lazy loading media on-demand instead of on initial page load. To add Velocity to your site, simply create a Velocity shortcode by selecting a preview image and media type using the intuitive shortcode builder then add the generated snippet to your page. Get More Information Shortcode Parameters type – Choose a media type [youtube, vimeo, twitch, soundcloud]. id – The ID of the media item. options – Add optional styling and display parameters for the embedded media – e.g. rel=0&controls=0&showinfo=0. playlist – Is this a Soundcloud playlist [true/false]. img – The path to the preview image. alt – The alternative text to be attached to the preview image. color – Play button arrow color. bkg_color – Play button background color. Example Shortcode [velocity type="youtube" id="239793212" img="http://yourwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/image-1263626715.jpg" alt="Play Video"] Tested Browsers Firefox (Mac, PC) Chrome (Mac, PC, iOS, Android) Safari (Mac, iOS) IE10+ Android (Native) BB10 (Native) Website https://connekthq.com/plugins/velocity/
Modern Image Formats
This plugin adds WebP and AVIF support for media uploads within the WordPress application. By default, AVIF images will be generated if supported on the hosting server, otherwise WebP will be used as the output format. When both formats are available, the output format can be selected under Settings > Media. Modern images will be generated only for new uploads, pre-existing images will only converted to a modern format if images are regenerated. Images can be regenerated with a plugin like Regenerate Thumbnails or via WP-CLI with the wp media regenerate command. By default, only modern image format sub-sizes will be generated for JPEG or PNG uploads – only the original uploaded file will still exist as a JPEG/PNG image, generated image sizes will be WebP or AVIF files. To change this behavior, there is a checkbox in Settings > Media “Output fallback images” that – when checked – will result in the plugin generating both the original format as well as WebP or AVIF images for every sub-size (noting again that this will only affect newly uploaded images, i.e. after making said change). This plugin was formerly known as WebP Uploads.
