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.

Sutherland Boswell

<p>Video Thumbnails makes it easy to automatically display video thumbnails in your template. When you publish a post, this plugin will find the first video embedded and retrieve a thumbnail for you. Thumbnails can be saved to your media library and set as a featured image automatically. There’s even support for custom post types and custom fields!</p>
<p><strong>Version 3.0</strong> is on the way soon!</p>
<h4>Video Thumbnails Pro</h4>
<p><a href="https://refactored.co/plugins/video-thumbnails" rel="nofollow ugc">Video Thumbnails Pro</a> adds new options like maximum image sizes, widescreen cropping, more powerful bulk scanning, a customizable upload directory, and more!</p>
<h4>Supported Sites</h4>
<ul>
<li>YouTube</li>
<li>Vimeo</li>
<li>Facebook</li>
<li>Vine</li>
<li>Twitch</li>
<li>Dailymotion</li>
<li>Metacafe</li>
<li>TED</li>
<li>VK</li>
<li>Blip</li>
<li>Google Drive</li>
<li>Funny or Die</li>
<li>CollegeHumor</li>
<li>MPORA</li>
<li>Livestream</li>
<li>Yahoo Screen</li>
<li>Wistia</li>
<li>Youku</li>
<li>Tudou</li>
<li>SAPO</li>
<li>Rutube</li>
</ul>
<p>Video Thumbnails even works with most video plugins, including:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://refactored.co/plugins/video-importer" rel="nofollow ugc">Refactored Video Importer</a></li>
<li>Viper’s Video Quicktags</li>
</ul>
<h4>Help Translate</h4>
<p><a href="http://translate.refactored.co/blog/" rel="nofollow ugc">Register on our translation site</a> to help bring Video Thumbnails to more languages.</p>
<h4>Our Other Plugins</h4>
<p><a href="https://refactored.co/plugins/video-thumbnails" rel="nofollow ugc">Video Thumbnails Pro</a> | <a href="https://refactored.co/plugins/video-importer" rel="nofollow ugc">Video Importer</a> | <a href="http://retinamatic.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Retinamatic</a></p>
<h3>Known Issues</h3>
<ul>
<li>In some cases you may have to manually search for thumbnails on the post editor</li>
</ul>
<h3>Roadmap</h3>
<p>Version 3.0 is being finished up for release soon.</p>


Video Thumbnails

Video Thumbnails simplifies the process of automatically displaying video thumbnails in your WordPress template.

Dashboard Video Widget vs Video Thumbnails