Bhagyesh Mistry

Dhaval Vachhani

Nakul Chandra

<p>Dashboard Video Widget allows you to embed videos from YouTube, Vimeo, or local MP4 files directly in your WordPress dashboard. Perfect for providing quick access to tutorial videos, company announcements, or training materials for your team.</p>
<p>Features:<br />
* Support for YouTube, Vimeo, and local MP4 videos<br />
* Drag-and-drop reordering of videos<br />
* Add notes to each video<br />
* Customizable widget title<br />
* Role-based access control</p>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to external video platforms to display embedded videos in the WordPress dashboard widget. The following services are used:</p>
<h4>YouTube</h4>
<ul>
<li>Service: Video embedding from YouTube (provided by Google LLC)</li>
<li>Usage: When a YouTube video is added to the widget, the plugin embeds it using YouTube’s iframe player</li>
<li>Data Transmission: Video ID is sent to YouTube’s servers when the dashboard widget loads</li>
<li>Terms of Service: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms</li>
<li>Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy</li>
</ul>
<h4>Vimeo</h4>
<ul>
<li>Service: Video embedding from Vimeo</li>
<li>Usage: When a Vimeo video is added to the widget, the plugin embeds it using Vimeo’s iframe player</li>
<li>Data Transmission: Video ID is sent to Vimeo’s servers when the dashboard widget loads</li>
<li>Terms of Service: https://vimeo.com/terms</li>
<li>Privacy Policy: https://vimeo.com/privacy</li>
</ul>
<p>Note: For local MP4 videos, no external services are used as the videos are served directly from your WordPress installation.</p>


Dashboard Video Widget

Add YouTube, Vimeo, or local MP4 videos to your WordPress dashboard for easy access to tutorials, guides, or announcements.

Brad Parbs

webdevstudios

Justin Sternberg

pluginize

Gary Kovar

coreymcollins

<p>When placing a YouTube or Vimeo video within the first 4000 characters of a post, the thumbnail of that video will automatically be uploaded and set as the featured image for the post as long as the post does not already have a set featured image.</p>
<p>In addition, after setting the video thumbnail as the featured image, an “is_video” post meta field is updated to allow for the use of conditional statements within your loop.</p>
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Automatic Featured Images from Videos

Tried this a bunch of times and it doesnt work. No errors or warnings, it just never sets the featured image

No longer works

An essential part of our Wordpress website. Saved hours of work. Thanks very much.

Just cool

If a YouTube or Vimeo video embed exists near the start of a post, we'll automatically set the post's featured image to a thumbnail of the video.

Dashboard Video Widget vs Automatic Featured Images from Videos