Mark Wilkinson

Highrise Digital

<p>This plugin provides page optimisations for pages and posts which have embedded Youtube, Vimeo or Daily Motion videos which have been added using the core embed block.</p>
<p>Without this plugin, when using the core embed block, when your page loads, lots of external scripts and styles are loaded from the embed service, regardless of whether a visitor actually interacts with the embedded video.</p>
<p>This plugin prevents these scripts and styles from loading until the user actually interacts with the video. It does this by replacing the video embed, on page load with the video thumbnail image (added on Youtube, Vimeo or Daily Motion). When a user clicks the thumbnail the embedded video, along with associated scripts and styles are loaded.</p>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" title="Better core video embeds for WordPress" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/k7A2kZWUb9Q?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>


Better Core Video Embeds


This is an example of an excellent plugin. Just activate and get immediate enhancement when using the embed blocks from WordPress. If deactivated, everything still works as before, but then without the enhancement. No "lock in":


Does what it says without any fuzz. Very good!

A plugin which enhances the core embed block for Youtube, Daily Motion and Vimeo videos by not loading unnecessary scripts until they are needed.

Kirsty Burgoine

billknechtel

<p>Features Include:</p>
<ul>
<li>The ability to add one or more videos directly in to a page, post or any of your own custom post types using the video URL (not the embed code) or ID and a short code. Currently YouTube and Vimeo are supported, using the [responsive_youtube] and [responsive_vimeo] shortcodes, respectively.</li>
<li>Fully responsive so the video’s viewport will fill the width of the containing area and scale depending on screen size. No need to set a width and height, just set the width of the div your content sits in.</li>
<li>YouTube videos have a shortcode attribute that lets you turn “related videos” on or off. “Related Videos” are the links that tile across the viewport when a video has completed playing.</li>
<li>YouTube videos also support light and dark themes, autoplaying, showinfo, and modest branding (which removes most YouTube brand imagery).</li>
<li>Vimeo videos can have the video portrait, title, and byline shut off.</li>
<li>A comprehensive settings screen which explains all the options and shows you the syntax of the shortcodes.</li>
</ul>
<p>Example Usage:</p>
<p>For a YouTube video, you can specify either full URL to the video or just the unique video ID, or the YouTube sharing or embed URLs, like this:</p>
<pre><code>[responsive_youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbCr0UyoFJA ]
[responsive_youtube NbCr0UyoFJA]
[responsive_youtube https://youtu.be//NbCr0UyoFJA ]
[responsive_youtube https://www.youtube.com/embed/NbCr0UyoFJA ]
</code></pre>
<p>And if you want to specify whether or not you’d like the “related videos” to display, you can use the “rel” or “norel” parameters in the shortcode syntax, like this:</p>
<pre><code>[responsive_youtube NbCr0UyoFJA norel]
[responsive_youtube NbCr0UyoFJA rel]
</code></pre>
<p>The rel and norel tags will override whatever you have set in the plugin settings screen for that specific video only.</p>
<p>Similarly, for a Vimeo video, you can use the full video player URL or just the video ID, like this:</p>
<pre><code>[responsive_vimeo https://vimeo.com/29506088 ]
[responsive_vimeo 29506088]
</code></pre>
<p>There is a more complete treatment of the shortcode syntax in the settings screen of the plugin itself.</p>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 3.0 +</li>
</ul>
<h3>Contributing</h3>
<p>Use anonymous svn to get a current trunk copy, or build a patch against your current install, then email the patch to me for consideration.</p>


Responsive Video Light

Embed responsive YouTube or Vimeo videos in pages, posts, or even the "text" widget using a super-simple shortcode.

Better Core Video Embeds vs Responsive Video Light