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.

kevinweber

<p>This plugin improves page load time and increases your Google PageSpeed Score. It works with oEmbed and replaces embedded Youtube and Vimeo videos with a clickable preview image.<br />
By loading videos only when the user clicks on the preview image, no unnecessary JavaScript is loaded. Especially on sites with many embedded videos this will make your visitors happy. Additionally, all Youtube videos are loaded in a privacy-enhanced mode using the “https://www.youtube-nocookie.com” embed URL.</p>
<p>This plugin works for your existing YouTube and Vimeo blocks. No vendor lock-in and no custom shortcodes: Easily turn the plugin on and off anytime.</p>
<p>Plugin review with speed test results <a href="https://wptavern.com/speed-up-wordpress-with-lazy-load-for-videos" rel="nofollow ugc">on WP Tavern</a>.<br />
Developers can contribute <a href="https://github.com/kevinweber/lazy-load-for-videos" rel="nofollow ugc">on Github</a>.<br />
More about the author: <a href="https://www.kweber.com" rel="nofollow ugc">on kweber.com</a>.</p>
<h4>Some additional features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Display video titles on preview images</li>
<li>Display privacy disclaimer on top of preview images (e.g. for GDPR compliance)</li>
<li>Pre-roll and post-roll advertisements: Convert all videos into a playlist and automatically add your corporate video, product teaser or another video advertisement to every video. (Great for branding and video ads!)</li>
<li>Hide annotations such as “subscribe to channel” to avoid distractions</li>
<li>Add custom CSS via the plugin’s admin panel</li>
<li>Choose custom colour for your Vimeo player</li>
<li>Hide controls from Youtube player</li>
<li>Hide information like the video title and uploader when the video starts playing</li>
<li>Even lazy load videos in text widgets (Youtube only)</li>
<li>Choose between thumbnail sizes (standard or cover)</li>
<li>Choose from several play button styles</li>
<li>Choose the traditional red or the alternative white progress bar for the Youtube video player</li>
<li>Don’t show related videos at the end of your videos</li>
<li>Works with WordPress Multisite and many plugins such as TablePress</li>
</ul>
<h4>Future features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Set a custom preview image per video</li>
<li>Track how often the videos have been loaded with Google Analytics</li>
<li>… YOU want a new feature RIGHT NOW? Please implement it yourself and <a href="https://github.com/kevinweber/lazy-load-for-videos" rel="nofollow ugc">contribute on Github</a>, and I’ll publish your enhancements to the official WordPress directory.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Translators</h4>
<ul>
<li>Serbian (sr_RS) – <a href="//firstsiteguide.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Ogi Djuraskovic</a></li>
<li>Spanish (es_ES) – <a href="http://po5i.github.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">Carlos Villavicencio</a></li>
</ul>
<p>If you have created your own language pack, or have an update of an existing one, you can <a href="https://www.kweber.com/contact/" rel="nofollow ugc">send me</a> your gettext PO and MO so that I can bundle it into my plugin. You can download the latest POT file <a href="https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/lazy-load-for-videos/trunk/languages/lazy-load-for-videos.pot" rel="nofollow ugc">from here</a>.</p>


Lazy Load for Videos

We have pages with multiple videos and that slowed down the page load and increased network traffic. This plugin improved it a lot. Reduced blocking of some pages with seconds and reduced the page load from 3MB to 1,3MB.



Works great


I noticed Squarespace has a much slicker way of loading and showing embedded videos, and I wanted it.   This plugin works perfectly to provide it so that my video portfolio page loads faster and looks better.  Thanks to the developer!


Simple solution for making video pages fast like Squarespace

Boost page speed by replacing embedded YouTube and Vimeo videos with a clickable preview image. Video scripts only load on click.

Dashboard Video Widget vs Lazy Load for Videos