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Eco-Shield is the ultra-lightweight solution for faster, greener, and more private WordPress sites.
Standard YouTube and Vimeo embeds are heavy. A single video embed can load over 1.7MB of extra scripts and track your users before they even click play. This hurts your PageSpeed Score, increases bounce rates, and violates strict privacy laws like GDPR.
Eco-Shield fixes this automatically.
It replaces heavy external iframes with a locally hosted, optimized WebP image. The heavy video player (and its tracking cookies) is only loaded when your visitor explicitly clicks “Play.”
<h3>🚀 New in Version 1.3.0 (The Engagement Update)</h3>
We have transformed Eco-Shield from a simple caching tool into a full Video Experience Suite.
Lightbox Mode: Optionally open videos in a beautiful, dimmed popup overlay. This “Cinema Mode” eliminates distractions and keeps users focused entirely on your content.
Engagement Analytics: Stop guessing! See exactly how many users are clicking “Play” on your videos directly from your Dashboard Widget.
Strict Privacy Mode: Add a custom text overlay (e.g., “Click to load content from YouTube”) to the thumbnail. Perfect for strict GDPR/DSGVO compliance in Germany and the EU.
Custom Branding: Ditch the standard YouTube Red. Change the “Play Button” color to match your brand identity.
Smart Data Controls: Easily reset your analytics data from the settings page when you are ready to start a new campaign.
<h3>⚡ Why Eco-Shield?</h3>
Maximum Performance 
* Zero Bloat: We don’t use heavy libraries. The plugin is ultra-lightweight (<10KB) so your site loads instantly. 
* Instant Loading: Uses modern browser technology to load images only when they are on screen (Lazy Loading). 
* Automatic Optimization: Automatically converts video thumbnails into super-small WebP images to save disk space and bandwidth. 
* Smart Caching: Includes a “Purge” button in the Admin Toolbar to instantly refresh thumbnails if you change a video.
Better User Experience 
* YouTube Shorts Support: Automatically detects Shorts and displays them in a sleek, vertical player. 
* Smart Deep-Linking: Timestamps (start at 1:30) and Playlists work perfectly out of the box. 
* Custom Brand Colors: Use the color picker to style the Play Button to match your website’s theme. 
* Cinema Mode: Toggle between standard inline play or a focused popup player.
Privacy & Security 
* GDPR/DSGVO Compliance: No tracking cookies or 3rd-party connections are made until the user clicks “Play.” 
* Privacy Text Overlay: Optional legal text overlay on thumbnails to inform users before they click. 
* RSS & Email Protection: Automatically falls back to a static image link in RSS feeds and Emails (preventing broken iframes in Outlook/Gmail).
Analytics & Insights 
* Engagement Tracking: Counts total video plays across your site. 
* Carbon Calculator: Tracks how much data (MB) and CO2 you have saved the planet. 
* Dashboard Widget: View your impact stats at a glance.
<h3>🛡️ Comprehensive Protection</h3>
Eco-Shield automatically detects and optimizes:
<ul>
<li>YouTube Shorts: Displays Shorts in vertical mode.</li>
<li>Gutenberg Blocks: Core YouTube and Vimeo blocks.</li>
<li>Auto-Embeds: Plain URLs pasted into the editor.</li>
<li>Legacy Iframes: Hard-coded iframes from YouTube and Vimeo.</li>
<li>Widgets & Sidebars: Protects videos in Sidebars and Custom HTML widgets.</li>
<li>RSS Feeds: Smart fallback ensures emails never show broken video players.</li>
</ul>

Eco-Shield

Boost PageSpeed, reduce carbon footprint, and track engagement by replacing YouTube & Vimeo embeds with a smart, privacy-focused static player.

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wpvideogallery

★★★★★ Trusted by 20,000+ WordPress sites
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All-in-One Video Gallery is a video posts plugin that lets you add videos as posts and build scalable, searchable, SEO-optimized video galleries in minutes — no coding required.
Whether you need a single embedded video player or a full video-sharing website like YouTube or Vimeo, this plugin covers it. Suitable for course creators, video bloggers, podcasters, businesses, and anyone embedding video on WordPress.
<h3>PLAYER FEATURES</h3>
<ul>
<li>A Custom HTML5 Video Player that supports MP4, WebM, OGV, HLS, MPEG-DASH, and embeddable players like YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Rumble, Facebook, Bunny Stream and more.</li>
<li>Player Controls: play/pause buttons, timer, progress bar, duration, speed control, quality switcher, volume button, picture-in-picture button, fullscreen button, share buttons, embed button, download button, subtitles on/off, keyboard hotkeys</li>
<li>Playback Options: autoplay, loop, muted, preload, playsinline</li>
<li>Subtitles & Captions (WebVTT).</li>
<li>Chapter Markers.</li>
<li>GDPR compatibility.</li>
<li>[+] support embed code from any third-party video sharing websites.</li>
</ul>
<h3>GALLERY FEATURES</h3>
Back-End
<ul>
<li>An user-friendly interface to upload and manage your videos.</li>
<li>Create unlimited categories/subcategories and tags.</li>
<li>Ability to group videos by categories and tags.</li>
<li>Create a featured videos group.</li>
<li>Bulk import videos from a CSV file or folder; export all your videos in one click.</li>
<li>Restrict video access globally or per video — allow all visitors, logged-in users only, logged-out users only, or specific user roles.</li>
<li>100+ settings (STILL COUNTING) that help you customize the plugin to the maximum you will need.</li>
</ul>
Front-End
<ul>
<li>Modern, Responsive design.</li>
<li>Categories display options: Grid, List</li>
<li>Sort categories by “ID”, “videos count”, “category name”, “slug” & “menu order (custom ordering)”.</li>
<li>Videos display options: Grid. More template options are available with our premium version.</li>
<li>Filter videos by “categories”, “tags” and “featured” meta key.</li>
<li>Sort videos by “video posted date”, “title”, “views count”, “likes count”, “dislikes count”, “random” & “menu order (custom ordering)”.</li>
<li>Ability to control the display of each HTML element in the gallery.</li>
<li>Filter videos on the same page using AJAX — search by keyword, category, or tag and sort by title, date, or popularity without a page reload.</li>
<li>Numeric Pagination for the large galleries.</li>
<li>Likes / Dislikes.</li>
<li>Social Sharing (Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Tumblr & WhatsApp).</li>
<li>Comments System.</li>
<li>Dedicated search form & layout.</li>
<li>Shortcode Builder to build the gallery shortcodes.</li>
<li>Gutenberg Blocks to build the gallery if your website uses the modern WordPress editor.</li>
<li>Widgets to list categories, list videos, display a single video player, and search videos.</li>
</ul>
<h3>DEVELOPER OPTIONS</h3>
The videos (aiovg_videos) belong to a WordPress Custom Post Type. Similarly, the categories (aiovg_categories) and tags (aiovg_tags) belong to the WordPress Custom Taxonomy. The plugin doesn’t use any custom tables and the settings are stored in the WP_Options table using the WordPress SETTINGS API. In short, the plugin has been developed completely using the WordPress CORE features. So, if you’re a WordPress developer, you can customize/extend the plugin as you like using the WordPress hooks system easily.
Similarly, the front-end gallery layouts added by our plugin can be customized by developing or overriding our existing templates. Please <a href="https://plugins360.com/all-in-one-video-gallery/child-themes-and-templates/" rel="nofollow ugc">check for a detailed documentation</a> on this.
<h3>[+] PREMIUM FEATURES</h3>
<ul>
<li>Gallery Templates: <a href="https://demo.plugins360.com/popup/" rel="nofollow ugc">Popup</a>, <a href="https://demo.plugins360.com/inline/" rel="nofollow ugc">Inline</a>, <a href="https://demo.plugins360.com/slider/" rel="nofollow ugc">Slider</a>, <a href="https://demo.plugins360.com/playlist/" rel="nofollow ugc">Playlist</a>, <a href="https://demo.plugins360.com/compact/" rel="nofollow ugc">Compact (Modern)</a></li>
<li>Auto import videos from YouTube & Vimeo websites.</li>
<li>Video SEO: Schema.org Markup (via JSON-LD)</li>
<li>Auto Thumbnail Generator</li>
<li>Custom Logo & Branding</li>
<li>Custom Context Menu</li>
<li>Front-end User Submission</li>
<li>User Playlists / Favorites</li>
<li>VAST / VPAID Ads</li>
</ul>
<h3>TRANSLATION READY</h3>
Do you speak another language? Want to contribute in a meaningful way to All-in-One Video Gallery? There’s no better way than to help us translate the plugin. This plugin is translation ready and you can <a href="https://plugins360.com/all-in-one-video-gallery/translate-to-your-language/" rel="nofollow ugc">translate</a> to your language easily. Once finished, please reach out to us <a href="https://plugins360.com/support/" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a> to get your language file included in the core.
Spanish translation partner – <a href="https://www.blarlo.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Blarlo</a>
<h3>LATEST ADDITION</h3>
<ul>
<li>Trailers & Teasers! Display a trailer clip to non-access users instead of the locked screen — great for driving upgrades or sign-ups.</li>
<li>Email & Lead Capture! Show an email collection form over your video to capture leads before, during, or after playback.</li>
</ul>
<h3>SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION</h3>
We do have <a href="https://plugins360.com/all-in-one-video-gallery/documentation/" rel="nofollow ugc">documentation</a> on the plugin.
Still, Having Issues? We are just an email away. Please write to us describing your issue using the “Contact” form available under our plugin’s menu. You should receive a reply within 24 hours (except Sunday).
Also, we answer all support requests <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/all-in-one-video-gallery/" rel="ugc">on the WordPress.org support forum</a>.

All-in-One Video Gallery

Video gallery plugin for WordPress with a built-in HTML5 player. Embed YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Rumble, and self-hosted videos.

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