Lean Plugins

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Lean Player is a lightweight video and audio player for WordPress with full playlist support. Embed players and playlists anywhere in 3 steps:
<ol>
<li>Create a player or playlist from the admin</li>
<li>Copy the shortcode</li>
<li>Paste it anywhere — or use the Elementor widget, Block Editor, or Classic Editor</li>
</ol>
Works with YouTube, Vimeo, MP4 video (upload or direct URL/CDN), and audio files (MP3, AAC, OGG, WAV, M4A — upload or direct URL/CDN). Plays nicely with Elementor, Block Editor, and Classic Editor on any theme, without slowing your site down.
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<iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NsJ56JBPuVU?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe>
Lean Player also helps keep media-heavy pages fast. With Media Preload, you choose whether video and audio should load only basic info, wait until the visitor clicks play, or start loading immediately. This is useful for pages with multiple players or playlists.
<h3>Features</h3>
Player Management: 
* Global Player Settings – Set default behavior once for all players 
* Player Manager – Create and manage players through admin interface 
* Per-Player Configuration – Override global settings for individual players 
* Admin Columns – View all players at a glance with Player Type, Source Type, Source, Autoplay status, and copy-ready Shortcode 
* Preview Player – Preview your player before publishing directly from the players list or from the player edit page 
* Simple Shortcode – [lean_player id=”123″] to embed anywhere 
* Player Categories – Group and organize players using categories
Video Sources: 
* YouTube video support 
* Vimeo video support 
* HTML5 video (upload or URL/CDN)
Audio Sources: 
* Supported formats: MP3, OGG, WAV, M4A, AAC 
* Audio streaming support (MP3, AAC streams) 
* Media library upload or direct URL/streaming URL
Playback Options: 
* Autoplay 
* Start Muted 
* Initial Volume control (0-100%) 
* Loop Playback 
* HTML5 Media Preload – Keep pages lighter by controlling when video and audio files start loading 
* Starting Playback Speed (0.5x to 4x) 
* Pause Other Players – Automatically pause other players when one starts playing (works across standalone players and playlists) [PRO] 
* Keyboard Shortcuts – Control playback when the player is focused, with optional global shortcuts for single-player pages 
* Time Display Format – Countdown or elapsed time [PRO] 
* Skip Forward/Back Amount – Set forward/back jump time (1-60 seconds) [PRO] 
* Reset to Start When Finished
Player Controls: 
* Fullscreen button 
* Click to play/pause 
* Picture-in-picture (PIP) mode 
* Keyboard shortcuts 
* Custom Player Controls – Show/hide and reorder controls (play-large, play, progress, current-time, mute, volume, captions, settings, pip, airplay, fullscreen, download) [PRO] 
* Auto-Hide Controls – Hide controls during playback [PRO]
Design & Styling: 
* Display your own preview thumbnail 
* Primary Color customization – Match player with your brand colors [PRO] 
* Compatible on all mobile & desktop devices 
* Very lightweight – no major impact on website speed 
* Works with all themes
Playlist: 
* Works with YouTube, Vimeo, HTML5 video, and audio files 
* Shortcode: [lean_playlist id=”123″] 
* Search players and add them to a playlist from the admin 
* Filter players by category and add all from a selected category at once 
* Panel position: left, right, top, or bottom of the player 
* Panel width, max width, and height (synced or fixed) 
* List layout with thumbnails (16:9 or 1:1 shape), duration badge, duration next to title, item numbers, and subtitle/artist text 
* Play icon: active item only or always visible 
* Playlist header with title and item count 
* Light and dark skin 
* Solid panel background 
* Auto-advance to the next track when one finishes 
* Audio now-playing compact view 
* Grid layout [PRO] 
* Accent color customization [PRO] 
* Custom gradient panel background [PRO] 
* Play icon hidden variant [PRO] 
* Audio now-playing large card [PRO] 
* Start from a specific item number [PRO] 
* Automatic Thumbnail – auto-fetch thumbnails from YouTube and Vimeo when no custom image is set [PRO]
Integration: 
* Elementor widgets (video, audio & playlist) 
* Block Editor (Gutenberg) support 
* Classic Editor support 
* Shortcode support everywhere
<h3>Video Player Elementor Widget</h3>
All player options are available directly in the Elementor panel – no shortcode needed. Widget-specific additions:
<ul>
<li>Saved Player mode – pick an existing saved player by name; its settings apply automatically</li>
<li>Player Accent Color – per-widget brand color override</li>
<li>Controls Bar Color – per-widget icon and text color</li>
<li>Per Element Style (Pro) – granular colors for play button, progress bar, volume slider, settings icon, tooltips, settings menu, and timer</li>
<li>Layout (Pro) – icon size, button spacing, corner radius, progress track height</li>
</ul>
<h3>Audio Player Elementor Widget</h3>
All player options are available directly in the Elementor panel – no shortcode needed. Widget-specific additions:
<ul>
<li>Saved Player mode – pick an existing saved player by name; its settings apply automatically</li>
<li>Poster Card Style – background, text, border color, padding, radius, and thumbnail radius</li>
<li>Player Accent Color – per-widget brand color override</li>
<li>Controls Bar Color – per-widget icon and text color</li>
<li>Per Element Style (Pro) – granular colors for play button, progress bar, volume slider, download button, tooltips, settings menu, and timer</li>
<li>Layout (Pro) – icon size, button spacing, corner radius, progress track height</li>
</ul>
<h3>Playlist Elementor Widget</h3>
Embed any saved playlist on an Elementor page without a shortcode. All playlist settings (panel position, layout, colors, auto-advance) are configured in the Playlist Manager, not the widget.
<ul>
<li>Select Playlist – pick from your saved playlists by name</li>
</ul>

Lean Player – Video and Audio Player with Playlist for WordPress, Elementor and Gutenberg

Video and audio player with playlist for WordPress. Plays YouTube, Vimeo, HTML5 video, and audio. Works with Elementor, Gutenberg, and Classic Editor.

Aleksandar Urošević

TechWebUX

Use this plugin when you wish to quick insert gallery grid composed from custom selected YouTube videos.
For automated latest or random videos collected from YouTube channel, favourites, liked videos or playlist check out <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/youtube-channel/" rel="ugc">My YouTube Channel</a>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Custom set of ID’s provided as shortcode attribute <code>id</code> (single of multiple ID’s separated by comma)</li>
<li>Custom additional class for targeted styling (if you need to blend gallery in your theme)</li>
<li>Custom number of columns to distribute thumbnails to (min 1, max 8)</li>
<li>Custom set video titles as shortcode content (separate by newline or pipe)</li>
<li>Responsive thumbnails</li>
<li>Autoplay with <a href="https://dimsemenov.com/plugins/magnific-popup/" rel="nofollow ugc">Magnific PopUp</a> lightbox</li>
<li>Well marked with classes</li>
</ul>
<h4>Classes</h4>
<ul>
<li>Main container:
<ul>
<li><code>.easy_youtube_gallery</code></li>
<li><code>.col-#</code> for number of columns (default is <code>1</code>, supported up to <code>8</code>)</li>
<li><code>.ar-16_9</code> for 16:9, <code>.ar-4_3</code> for 4:3 or <code>.ar-square</code> for 1:1 aspect ratio</li>
<li>custom class provided by shortcode attribute <code>class</code></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Anchor:
<ul>
<li><code>.eytg-item</code></li>
<li><code>.eytg-item-#</code> for order number of item</li>
<li><code>.eytg-item-first</code> for first item in gallery block</li>
<li><code>.eytg-item-mid</code> for middle items in gallery block</li>
<li><code>.eytg-item-last</code> for last item in gallery block</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Title: (new in 1.0.4)
<ul>
<li><code>.eytg-title</code> for custom video title</li>
<li><code>.top</code> positioning custom video title on top of thumbnail</li>
<li><code>.bottom</code> positioning custom video title on bottom of thumbnail</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Thumbnail:
<ul>
<li><code>.eytg-thumbnail</code> is class for span where we set video thumbnail as background image</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Play icon
<ul>
<li><code>.eytg-thumbnail:before</code> is pseudoclass for play icon</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4>How To Use?</h4>
Full shortcode
<pre><code>[easy_youtube_gallery id=uMK0prafzw0,8Uee_mcxvrw,HcXNPI-IPPM,JvMXVHVr72A,AIXUgtNC4Kc,K8nrF5aXPlQ,cegdR0GiJl4,L-wpS49KN00,KbW9JqM7vho ar=16_9 cols=3 thumbnail=hqdefault controls=0 playsinline=1 privacy=1 title=top wall=1 class=mySuperClass]
Title One
Second Title
Video 3
Fourth Video
YouTube 5
Sixth YouTube
Video No. 7
Player #8
9th item
[/easy_youtube_gallery]
</code></pre>
Basic shortcode
<pre><code>[easy_youtube_gallery id=uMK0prafzw0,8Uee_mcxvrw,HcXNPI-IPPM cols=3]
</code></pre>
Please note! If you doing copy&paste from code above, before you paste content to page, post or text widget content, clear all formatting by paste&copy to/from Notepad or other plain text editor!
<h4>Shortcode parameters</h4>
<ul>
<li><code>id</code> (required) single YouTube video ID or multiple ID’s separated with comma</li>
<li><code>ar</code> (optional) aspect ratio of thumbnails; default is <code>ar-16_9</code> for 16:9, but also supported <code>ar-4_3</code> for 4:3 and <code>ar-square</code> for 1:1</li>
<li><code>cols</code> (optional) for number of columns to distribute thumbnails in; devault is <code>1</code>, supported up to <code>8</code></li>
<li><code>thumbnail</code> (optional) for YouTube size of thumbnail; default is <code>hqdefault</code> but we can use:
<ul>
<li><code>0</code> have resolution 480x360px</li>
<li><code>1</code>, <code>2</code> and <code>3</code> have resolution 120x90px (first, second or third frame)</li>
<li><code>default</code> have resolution 120x90px (Default Quality)</li>
<li><code>mqdefault</code> have resolution 320x180px (Medium Quality)</li>
<li><code>hqdefault</code> have resolution 480x360px (High Quality)</li>
<li><code>sddefault</code> have resolution 640x480px (Standard Definition) and does not exists for lowres videos</li>
<li><code>maxresdefault</code> have resolution 1920x1080px (Full HD) and does not exists for lowres videos</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><code>controls</code> (optional) to optionally hide playback controls in lightbox player (default is <code>1</code> that means “display controls”, but you can set it to <code>0</code> to hide controls)</li>
<li><code>privacy</code> (optional) enables enhanced privacy which means that YouTube won’t store information about visitors on your web page unless they play the video. (<code>0</code> or <code>1</code>)</li>
<li><code>playsinline</code> controls whether videos play inline or fullscreen in an HTML5 player on iOS. Learn more on <a href="https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters?hl=en#playsinline" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Developers</a> (<code>0</code> or <code>1</code>)</li>
<li><code>class</code> (optional) to add custom style class if you wish to target specific styling for your own needs</li>
<li><code>wall</code> (optional) render video wall with player at top and thumbnails below (<code>0</code> or <code>1</code>)</li>
<li><code>title</code> (optional) set custom video titles position (<code>top</code> or <code>bottom</code>)</li>
</ul>
<iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EbYfwzmCVJI?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe>
<h3>TODO</h3>
<ul>
<li>Replace MagnificPopUp with newer library</li>
<li>VisualComposer block</li>
<li>Inline player instead of opening in lightbox</li>
</ul>

Easy YouTube Gallery

Lightweight, easy to use, the shortcodes allow you to get some basic customizations.
Shortly put, perfect for my needs!

Works exactly as described

Quick and easy make gallery for custom set of YouTube videos provided in shortcode, and autoplay video on click in Magnific PopUp lightbox.

Lean Player – Video and Audio Player with Playlist for WordPress, Elementor and Gutenberg vs Easy YouTube Gallery