Video Slider for YouTube (Lite)
Video Slider for YouTube (Lite) lets you create unlimited, fully responsive YouTube video sliders — no coding required. ✨ Key Features Unlimited slider sets — create as many sliders as you need Normal (16:9) & Shorts (9:16) — each slider can be a different format Thumbnail lazy-load — shows a clickable thumbnail instead of an iframe, dramatically reducing page load time and improving Core Web Vitals Per-slider arrow & dot colors — match your brand with a color picker Autoplay & loop control — toggle via shortcode attributes Swiper-powered — smooth, touch-friendly sliding on all devices Works everywhere — Gutenberg, Elementor, Classic Editor, and any page builder that supports shortcodes 🚀 How to Use Go to YouTube Sliders → Add New Give your slider a title Paste YouTube URLs (one per line) — supports watch, shorts, and youtu.be links Choose slider type, colors, and thumbnail mode Copy the shortcode shown in the editor Paste [youtube_slider id="123"] anywhere on your site ⚙️ Shortcode Options [youtube_slider id="123"] [youtube_slider id="123" type="shorts"] [youtube_slider id="123" autoplay="false" loop="false"] Attribute Values Default Description id post ID — Required. The slider post ID type normal, shorts (saved setting) Override the slider type autoplay true, false true Auto-advance slides loop true, false true Loop back to the first slide 🎬 Thumbnail Mode When enabled, each slide shows a YouTube thumbnail image. The iframe loads only when the user clicks Play — this means zero YouTube scripts are loaded until needed, improving page speed significantly. 🌍 Translations The plugin is fully translation-ready (.pot file included). If you’d like to help translate it into your language, click here.
YouTube Sidebar
YouTube Plugins are nothing new but I like to add my own approach to every plugin. This plugin allows the insertion of a video ID for displaying with a specific post. The video is displayed instantly. This differs from plugins that may allow a single video to be added using an entire widget – not great use of a widget in my opinion. The YouTube widget management would become very busy if every widget was THAT basic. So the widgets in YouTube Sidebar will handle multiple videos and even ads when no videos are available. If this still is not enough. Try my Video Blogger plugin which allows the display of videos from other streaming sites and offers other unique approaches to video management. Main Plugin Links Plugins Portal Features List Two widgets, only need to use one. Display different videos per post. Multiple videos per post. Display an ad when post has no video. Request Features If you need a tool or an existing plugin customized. Please post it in this plugins forum and I will do my best to add the service to this plugin in the way you need it. Languages Translators needed to help localize YouTube Sidebar. Donators These donators have giving their permission to add their site to this list so that plugin authors can request their support for their own project. Please do not request donations but instead visit their site, show interest and tell them about your own plugin – you may get lucky. Ryan Bayne from WebTechGlobal Version Numbers and Updating Explanation of versioning used by myself Ryan Bayne. The versioning scheme I use is called “Semantic Versioning 2.0.0” and more information about it can be found at http://semver.org/ These are the rules followed to increase the YouTube Sidebar plugin version number. Given a version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, increment the: MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes, MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards-compatible manner, and PATCH version when you make backwards-compatible bug fixes. Additional labels for pre-release and build metadata are available as extensions to the MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH format.
