Satish Thakor

ChapterPlay automatically extracts chapters from YouTube video descriptions and displays them in a beautiful, interactive sidebar. Visitors can click any chapter to jump directly to that timestamp.
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>🎬 Gutenberg Block — drag and drop into any post or page</li>
<li>🔖 Shortcode — <code>[chapterplay url="..."]</code> for classic editor or any text widget</li>
<li>📑 Auto Chapter Extraction — reads timestamps directly from YouTube descriptions</li>
<li>📺 Multiple Players — add unlimited players on the same page with no conflicts</li>
<li>🌙 Premium Dark Design — polished UI that adapts to any container size (300px to full-width)</li>
<li>⚡ Smart Caching — chapter data is cached server-side to reduce API calls</li>
<li>🔑 No API Key Required — uses YouTube’s internal data endpoint; zero configuration needed</li>
</ul>
<h4>How to Use</h4>
Gutenberg Block: 
1. In the block editor, click + to add a new block 
2. Search for ChapterPlay 
3. Add the block, then paste the YouTube URL in the right-hand Settings panel 
4. Save and preview — the player renders on the frontend with chapters
Shortcode:
<pre><code>[chapterplay url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"]

[chapterplay url="VIDEO_ID"]
</code></pre>
You can use the shortcode inside any page, post, or text widget.
<h4>External Services</h4>
This plugin connects to youtube.com to fetch video metadata (title, description, duration). No personal user data is transmitted. The connection is made server-side only when a video is first loaded or the cache expires.
<ul>
<li>Service: YouTube (google.com)</li>
<li>Data sent: YouTube video ID only</li>
<li>Data received: Video title, author, duration, description</li>
<li>Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy</li>
<li>Terms of service: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms</li>
</ul>

ChapterPlay Chapter Player for YouTube

Embed a premium YouTube chapter player anywhere using a Gutenberg block or shortcode. No API key needed.

Freemius

Md Kabir Uddin

blackandwhitedigital

Writing a book? Promoting a book? This is the plugin for you. Easily write and display your books on WordPress. Add covers, pages, table of contents, chapters, track progress with word counts and more.
It’s currently difficult to recreate the feel of a book on WordPress – you either need to make your whole site into the ‘book’ or figure out complex work-arounds like creating your own taxonomies. WordPress’s own support section says “There are ways to use a blog to post long-form pieces in chapters, however, though it will require a bit of work.” BookPress solves all this for you!
If your dream is to self-publish your novel, or to create a site where you can mix your blog, books and other features, BookPress is for you.
This plugin includes –
<h4>BookPress Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Write your book in WordPress and easily display it ‘like a book’</li>
<li>Add book elements such as covers, table of contents, dedication, copyright page, chapters, etc.</li>
<li>Drop and drag book elements to reorder your book content</li>
<li>‘Book like’ page numbering – use Roman numerals for front matter and Arabic for body and end matter</li>
<li>Automatic creation of Table of Contents with live links to jump to relevant page</li>
<li>Sidebar widget to display your book and link to it</li>
<li>Progress tracking – word counts for each element (eg chapter) and the whole book to help keep you motivated!</li>
<li>Assign genres to books</li>
<li>Translation ready</li>
<li>Clean, easy to read front end book design that ‘feels like a book’</li>
<li>Front end display of book with sections, content, page numbering, etc. correctly formatted and sequenced</li>
</ul>
<h4>BookPress Premium</h4>
<ul>
<li>Create and display multiple books on your WordPress site (free version limited to a single book)</li>
<li>Index tags to create a book index with live links to jump to page</li>
<li>Additional sidebar widget enabling display of multiple books</li>
<li>Front End ‘Library’ page shortcode to display and sort all your books by genre, author name, Book ID, and more.</li>
<li>Footnotes – ability to add notes to the end of a page with a reference (a super text numeral) linking to a note</li>
<li>Enhanced Progress Tracking – set targets for writing (e.g. words per week) and track your progress with graphs and statistics</li>
</ul>
<h4>Translations (full or partial)</h4>
<ul>
<li>Chinese (China) / 简体中文</li>
<li>Chinese (Hong Kong) / 香港中文版</li>
<li>German / Deutsch</li>
<li>Polish / Polski</li>
<li>Russian / Русский</li>
</ul>
<h4>Links</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.bookpress.net/docs/" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.bookpress.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">Project Site</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.bookpress.net/plugins/" rel="nofollow ugc">Premium Version</a></li>
<li><a href="https://trial.bookpress.net" rel="nofollow ugc">Premium Version Trial/Demo to Play With!</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=RSXSRDQ7HANFQ&source=wordpresspluginpage" rel="nofollow ugc">Donate to support plugin development</a></li>
</ul>

BookPress – For Book Authors

Books on WordPress made easy. Write and display your books: Add chapters, pages, table of contents, track word counts and more.

ChapterPlay Chapter Player for YouTube vs BookPress – For Book Authors