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Video Slider for YouTube (Lite) lets you create unlimited, fully responsive YouTube video sliders — no coding required.
<h4>✨ Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Unlimited slider sets — create as many sliders as you need</li>
<li>Normal (16:9) & Shorts (9:16) — each slider can be a different format</li>
<li>Thumbnail lazy-load — shows a clickable thumbnail instead of an iframe, dramatically reducing page load time and improving Core Web Vitals</li>
<li>Per-slider arrow & dot colors — match your brand with a color picker</li>
<li>Autoplay & loop control — toggle via shortcode attributes</li>
<li>Swiper-powered — smooth, touch-friendly sliding on all devices</li>
<li>Works everywhere — Gutenberg, Elementor, Classic Editor, and any page builder that supports shortcodes</li>
</ul>
<h4>🚀 How to Use</h4>
<ol>
<li>Go to YouTube Sliders → Add New</li>
<li>Give your slider a title</li>
<li>Paste YouTube URLs (one per line) — supports <code>watch</code>, <code>shorts</code>, and <code>youtu.be</code> links</li>
<li>Choose slider type, colors, and thumbnail mode</li>
<li>Copy the shortcode shown in the editor</li>
<li>Paste <code>[youtube_slider id="123"]</code> anywhere on your site</li>
</ol>
<h4>⚙️ Shortcode Options</h4>
<pre><code>[youtube_slider id="123"]
[youtube_slider id="123" type="shorts"]
[youtube_slider id="123" autoplay="false" loop="false"]
</code></pre>
 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
<h4>🎬 Thumbnail Mode</h4>
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.
<h4>🌍 Translations</h4>
The plugin is fully translation-ready (<code>.pot</code> file included). If you’d like to help translate it into your language, <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/video-slider-for-youtube-lite/" rel="nofollow ugc">click here</a>.

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