Embeds for YouTube

NOTE: This plugin supports the ability to insert the standard Embeds for YouTube and playlist players. However, if you need to embed a YouTube facade, livestream, or gallery, we recommend the EmbedPlus.com plugin that’s freely available here. It’s been around for many years and is highly trusted.

Embeds for YouTube is an incredibly fast, simple, yet powerful, method of embedding YouTube videos into your WordPress site.

Key features include…

• Build your own playlists and play them back however you want
• Automatically generate playlists based on user name
• Create multiple profiles – use them for different videos to get the exact style that you want
• Dynamic video sizing for responsive sites
• Housekept caching keeps the code generation nimble and your database tables slimline
• Google compatible metadata is added to the video output based on data provided by the YouTube API – great for SEO!
• Support for Do Not Track
• Compatible with Video SEO for WordPress, a3 lazy load and WordPress Video Overlay Ads and many more. In the case of Video SEO and WordPress Video Overlay Ads, their options will even appear under the Embeds for YouTube menu for total simplicity!
• Use Turn Off The Lights? This plugin works with it beautifully.
• iFrame Resizer and FitVids.js supported to improve content resizing
• Works “out of the box” with 4K, 60FPS and Chromecast – stream your embedded videos to your TV!
• And much, much more!

🚦 Getting Started

How easy is it to use? The fine people at Webucator have put together an excellent video showing you how to get started with it..

To add a video to a post or page simply use the shortcode [youtube]video[/youtube], where video is the ID or URL of the YouTube video. Alternatively, you can add one (or more) widgets to your sidebar.

If you’re not sure what the video ID is, please head to the FAQ section where it’s explained in greater detail!

Within the administration area, click on the Settings menu option and then Embeds for YouTube to view and edit the generic settings for the plugin. Also under the Embeds for YouTube menu (see screenshot 1) you can click on the Profiles sub-menu to set the default options which define the output of your videos. Any videos you display (unless overridden by parameters – more on that later) will use the settings from the Profiles screen.

Although this document contains a lot of information more is provided on the various administration pages. Whilst on the administration pages, click on the “Help” button in the top right for some useful tips and links. If anything isn’t covered and you’re unsure of what it does please ask on the forum.

🔑 Creating an API Key

At the top of the Embeds for YouTube Settings administration screen is an option to specify an API key. This is optional but many of the features of this plugin – including accurate video information being added to the metadata – will not be available without it. Thankfully an API key is easy to get and is free.

1. Head to the YouTube Developers Console
2. Click on CREATE PROJECT
3. Once created, head into it
4. In the APIs box, click on “Go to APIs overview”
5. Click on “ENABLE APIS AND SERVICES” at the top of the screen
6. You can now choose your API – click on YouTube Data API v3
7. Click the “ENABLE” button
8. Click on “CREATE CREDENTIALS”
9. On the drop-downs, choose the API we selected before, “Web browser and “Public data”
10. You will now be presented with your API key

The API key can now be pasted into the settings in WP Admin.

Further embedding options

A basic shortcode will embed your video using your default profile settings. However, you may wish to override some of these options on a video-by-video basis – this is done via parameters added to the shortcode.

Read the full description on the official page →