Dropndot Solutions

<p>Dropndot Video Library is a powerful WordPress plugin that transforms your website into a comprehensive video management platform. Create, organize, and display videos from popular platforms like YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Facebook, TikTok, and more through an intuitive custom post type interface.</p>
<h3>Key Features</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Multi-Platform Support</strong>: Embed videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Facebook, TikTok, and other video platforms</li>
<li><strong>Custom Post Type</strong>: Dedicated “Videos” post type with full WordPress integration</li>
<li><strong>Taxonomies</strong>: Organize videos with categories and tags</li>
<li><strong>REST API Support</strong>: Full REST API integration for headless implementations</li>
<li><strong>WPGraphQL Support</strong>: GraphQL API support for modern applications</li>
<li><strong>Custom Templates</strong>: Includes archive, single, and taxonomy templates</li>
<li><strong>Admin Interface</strong>: User-friendly video management interface</li>
<li><strong>Settings Page</strong>: Customize URL slugs for videos and archives</li>
<li><strong>Thumbnail Support</strong>: Featured image support for video thumbnails</li>
<li><strong>SEO Friendly</strong>: Proper meta descriptions and structured data support</li>
</ul>
<h3>Supported Video Platforms</h3>
<ul>
<li>YouTube</li>
<li>Vimeo</li>
<li>Dailymotion</li>
<li>Facebook</li>
<li>TikTok</li>
<li>And many more through embed URLs</li>
</ul>
<h3>External services</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to third-party video platform APIs to retrieve oEmbed/metadata so it can normalize URLs, generate embed links, and build thumbnails for videos saved in the Video post type.</p>
<h4>Vimeo API</h4>
<p>Used to fetch metadata and thumbnails for Vimeo URLs.<br />
Data sent: the video ID parsed from the URL.<br />
When sent: when a Vimeo URL is saved or processed.<br />
Terms: https://vimeo.com/terms<br />
Privacy policy: https://vimeo.com/privacy</p>
<h4>Facebook Graph oEmbed API</h4>
<p>Used to fetch oEmbed information for Facebook video URLs.<br />
Data sent: the original Facebook video URL and a site-configured access token (if provided via filter).<br />
When sent: when a Facebook video URL is saved or processed.<br />
If the oEmbed response does not provide a thumbnail URL, the plugin also fetches the original Facebook video page HTML and extracts the <code>og:image</code> meta tag to determine a thumbnail.<br />
Terms: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms<br />
Privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/</p>
<h4>TikTok oEmbed API</h4>
<p>Used to fetch oEmbed information for TikTok video URLs.<br />
Data sent: the original TikTok video URL (when available/stored in post meta for normalization).<br />
When sent: when a TikTok URL is saved or processed.<br />
Fallbacks: if needed, the plugin fetches HTML from <code>https://www.tiktok.com/embed/{video_id}</code> and also tries <code>https://www.tiktok.com/v/{video_id}</code> to parse <code>og:image</code> and JSON-LD for a thumbnail.<br />
Terms: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/terms-of-service<br />
Privacy policy: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/privacy-policy</p>
<h4>Wistia API</h4>
<p>Used to fetch metadata for Wistia media URLs.<br />
Data sent: the Wistia media ID parsed from the URL.<br />
When sent: when a Wistia URL is saved or processed.<br />
Terms: https://wistia.com/terms<br />
Privacy policy: https://wistia.com/privacy</p>
<h4>Twitch Helix API</h4>
<p>Used to resolve Twitch stream/channel details for embed generation.<br />
Data sent: Twitch channel username (passed as <code>user_login</code>) to resolve live-stream thumbnails; the request includes a <code>Client-ID</code> header obtained via the filter <code>DROPNDOT_VIDEO_LIBRARY_twitch_client_id</code>.<br />
When sent: when a Twitch URL is saved or processed.<br />
Terms: https://www.twitch.tv/p/en/legal/terms-of-service/<br />
Privacy policy: https://www.twitch.tv/p/en/legal/privacy-notice/</p>
<h4>Veed oEmbed API</h4>
<p>Used to fetch oEmbed information for VEED links.<br />
Data sent: the original VEED video URL.<br />
When sent: when a VEED URL is saved or processed.<br />
Terms: https://www.veed.io/terms<br />
Privacy policy: https://www.veed.io/privacy</p>
<h4>Loom oEmbed API</h4>
<p>Used to fetch oEmbed information for Loom links.<br />
Data sent: the original Loom video URL.<br />
When sent: when a Loom URL is saved or processed.<br />
Terms: https://www.loom.com/terms<br />
Privacy policy: https://www.loom.com/privacy-policy</p>
<h4>Rumble Video Page Fetch</h4>
<p>Used to fetch the Rumble video page HTML to extract thumbnail metadata (Open Graph <code>og:image</code>).<br />
Data sent: the Rumble video page URL built from the video ID parsed from the embed URL.<br />
When sent: when generating fallback thumbnails for Rumble embed URLs (and when processing URLs where no provider API response is available).<br />
Terms: https://rumble.com/s/terms<br />
Privacy policy: https://rumble.com/s/privacy</p>
<h4>Streamable API</h4>
<p>Used to fetch metadata for Streamable URLs.<br />
Data sent: the Streamable video ID parsed from the URL.<br />
When sent: when a Streamable URL is saved or processed.<br />
Terms: https://streamable.com/terms<br />
Privacy policy: https://streamable.com/privacy</p>
<h4>Instagram oEmbed API</h4>
<p>Used to fetch oEmbed information for Instagram video URLs.<br />
Data sent: the original Instagram video URL.<br />
When sent: when an Instagram URL is saved or processed.<br />
Terms: https://help.instagram.com/581066165581870<br />
Privacy policy: https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy</p>
<h4>Direct URL fetch for metadata parsing</h4>
<p>In some providers, the plugin requests the original video page URL to extract metadata when no provider API response is available.<br />
Data sent: a standard HTTP request to the video URL provided by the site editor.<br />
When sent: when processing supported non-API/fallback URL patterns.</p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>For support, bug reports, or feature requests, please visit:<br />
https://dropndot.com/support/</p>
<h3>Contributing</h3>
<p>We welcome contributions! Please see our GitHub repository for contribution guidelines.</p>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>Dropndot Video Library is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.</p>
<p>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.</p>
<p>You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html.</p>


Dropndot Video Library

Multi-platform video embeds as a custom post type with REST API and WPGraphQL support for WordPress.

Imran Sayed

<p>A WordPress plugin that adds following features to use WordPress as a headless CMS with any front-end environment using REST API<br />
This plugin provides multiple features and you can use the one’s that is relevant to your front-end application. You don’t necessarily need to use all.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ol>
<li>Custom REST API Endpoints.</li>
<li>Social links in customizer.</li>
<li>Image uploads for categories.</li>
<li>Custom header and footer menus.</li>
<li>Custom Widgets.</li>
<li>Custom Header and Footer GraphQL fields when using <a href="https://github.com/wp-graphql/wp-graphql" rel="nofollow ugc">wp-graphql</a> plugin</li>
</ol>
<h3>Feature Details</h3>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Adds option to add social links in customizer</li>
<li>Registers two custom menus for header ( menu location = hcms-menu-header ) and for footer ( menu location = hcms-menu-footer )</li>
<li>Registers the following sidebars</li>
</ul>
<ol>
<li>HCMS Footer #1 with sidebar id ‘hcms-sidebar-1’</li>
<li>HCMS Footer #2 with sidebar id ‘hcms-sidebar-2’</li>
</ol>
<h3>Available Custom REST API endpoints</h3>
<ol>
<li>
<p>Get single post ( GET request ): <code>http://example.com/wp-json/rae/v1/post?post_id=1</code></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Get posts by page no: ( GET Request ) : <code>http://example.com/wp-json/rae/v1/posts?page_no=1</code></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Get header and footer date: ( GET Request )</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p>* Get the header data ( site title, site description , site logo URL, menu items ) and footer data ( footer menu items, social icons )<br />
* `http://example.com/wp-json/rae/v1/header-footer?header_location_id=hcms-menu-header&footer_location_id=hcms-menu-footer“</p>
<ol>
<li>Get posts by page no: ( GET Request )</li>
</ol>
<p>* Get the posts by taxonomy<br />
* <code>http://example.com/wp-json/rae/v1/posts-by-tax?post_type=post&taxonomy=category&slug=xyz</code></p>
<h3>More Features</h3>
<ol>
<li>Registers the sections for socials icons in the customizer</li>
</ol>
<ul>
<li>Social icons urls for ‘facebook’, ‘twitter’, ‘instagram’, ‘youtube’</li>
</ul>
<ol>
<li>Image upload features for categories</li>
</ol>
<ul>
<li>Provides Image upload features for categories.</li>
</ul>
<ol>
<li>Plugin Settings Page</li>
</ol>
<ul>
<li>Settings for getting data for a custom page like Hero section, Search section, Featured post section, latest posts heading.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Installation and Use</h3>
<p>This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.</p>
<ol>
<li>Upload the plugin files to the <code>/wp-content/plugins/plugin-name</code> directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.</li>
<li>Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress</li>
<li>Your can add social icons from customizer</li>
<li>You can set up custom header and footer menus.</li>
<li>You can add image to categories.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Demo of the Frontend applications that can be used with this plugin</h3>
<p>Please check the demo of an example React front-end application, where this plugin can be used.</p>
<p>[2020-07-02] Demo.</p>
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe class="youtube-player" width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nYXL1KKjKrc?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation"></iframe></span>
<p>Using This plugin with WordPress and GraphQl<br />
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe class="youtube-player" width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent&listType=playlist&list=PLD8nQCAhR3tQSv-U_LNdiHEViB1kj6LrM" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation"></iframe></span></p>
<p>= Its not working.</p>
<p>Step 1. Check if your Plugin is activated.<br />
Step 2. Deactivate all plugins and reactivate headless-cms.</p>


Headless CMS

It has rest api endpoints for pagination as well that i can used in my React application which i like

Really useful plugin

A WordPress plugin that adds features to use WordPress as a headless CMS with any front-end environment using REST API.

Dropndot Video Library vs Headless CMS