Ssebuwufu Moses

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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ExpressTech Systems

Sayan Datta

Gutena Video Lightbox is a WordPress Block that allows you to add a video in a popup window that goes over the website content. To create a lightbox, Just upload a display image, then put a video URL of Youtube / Vimeo.
<iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pY-x4erbu4I?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 allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>This plugin can play the videos from Youtube and Vimeo</li>
<li>Complete control over the look and feel</li>
<li>User-friendly interface, so you don’t need any coding skills to make it beautiful</li>
<li>Lightweight and fast, so it won’t slow down your website</li>
<li>Pre-made layouts to choose from</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other Blocks From Gutena</h3>
If you like this plugin, consider exploring our other block plugins:
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/gutena-tabs/" rel="ugc">Gutena Tabs</a> – A simple and easy-to-use WordPress plugin which allows you to create beautiful tabs in your posts and pages.
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/newsletter-block-by-gutena/" rel="ugc">Gutena Newsletter</a> – Easily and instantly add Newsletter Block to your Gutenberg Editor.
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/gutena-forms/" rel="ugc">Gutena Forms</a> – Easily and instantly add Forms Block to your Gutenberg Editor. Gutena Forms is a native form block for Gutenberg. Built for Look, Speed and Functionality.
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/gutena-accordion/" rel="ugc">Gutena Accordion</a> – Easily and instantly add Accordion Block to your Gutenberg Editor.
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/photofeed-block-by-gutena/" rel="ugc">Gutena PhotoFeed</a> – Display Instagram Photos from your Instagram accounts, either in the same single feed or in multiple different ones.
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-featured-tag-block-by-gutena/" rel="ugc">Gutena Recent Post Tag</a> – Post Featured Tag Block use to add custom featured or new tag on post based on post date.
<h3>Our Products</h3>
If you like this plugin, consider exploring our other themes and plugins:
<a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/gutena/" rel="ugc">Gutena</a> – A full site editing (block) theme for WordPress with ready made full page templates. Elegant and functional – follows all the best practices by WP, and yeah, no jQuery!
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/quiz-master-next/" rel="ugc">Quiz and Survey Master</a> – Best WordPress Quiz Plugin to create engaging quizzes, surveys, & exams using WordPress and convert your website into a lead generation machine.
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/responsive-menu/" rel="ugc">Responsive Menu</a> – Best WordPress Menu Builder Plugin to create awesome and interactive mobile & desktop menus for WordPress websites.
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/projectopia-core/" rel="ugc">Projectopia</a> – Project Management & Invoicing plugin for WordPress. Generate invoices, send quotes, generate leads, manage clients, provide support – all inside your WordPress website.
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/booking-ultra-pro/" rel="ugc">Booking Ultra</a> – Appointment Booking plugin for WordPress – Show a quick form to accept bookings for your services with pre-set booking slots. Ideal for salons, medical professionals, lawyers, consultants, etc.
<a href="https://instawp.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">InstaWP</a> – Launch a quick WordPress site with this sandbox service. Create New WordPress instance within a second.
<h3>Images</h3>
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Gutena Video Lightbox

Gutena Video Lightbox is a WordPress Block that allows you to add a video in a popup window that goes over the website content.

Eco-Shield vs Gutena Video Lightbox