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.

Kirsty Burgoine

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Features Include:
<ul>
<li>The ability to add one or more videos directly in to a page, post or any of your own custom post types using the video URL (not the embed code) or ID and a short code. Currently YouTube and Vimeo are supported, using the [responsive_youtube] and [responsive_vimeo] shortcodes, respectively.</li>
<li>Fully responsive so the video’s viewport will fill the width of the containing area and scale depending on screen size. No need to set a width and height, just set the width of the div your content sits in.</li>
<li>YouTube videos have a shortcode attribute that lets you turn “related videos” on or off. “Related Videos” are the links that tile across the viewport when a video has completed playing.</li>
<li>YouTube videos also support light and dark themes, autoplaying, showinfo, and modest branding (which removes most YouTube brand imagery).</li>
<li>Vimeo videos can have the video portrait, title, and byline shut off.</li>
<li>A comprehensive settings screen which explains all the options and shows you the syntax of the shortcodes.</li>
</ul>
Example Usage:
For a YouTube video, you can specify either full URL to the video or just the unique video ID, or the YouTube sharing or embed URLs, like this:
<pre><code>[responsive_youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbCr0UyoFJA ]
[responsive_youtube NbCr0UyoFJA]
[responsive_youtube https://youtu.be//NbCr0UyoFJA ]
[responsive_youtube https://www.youtube.com/embed/NbCr0UyoFJA ]
</code></pre>
And if you want to specify whether or not you’d like the “related videos” to display, you can use the “rel” or “norel” parameters in the shortcode syntax, like this:
<pre><code>[responsive_youtube NbCr0UyoFJA norel]
[responsive_youtube NbCr0UyoFJA rel]
</code></pre>
The rel and norel tags will override whatever you have set in the plugin settings screen for that specific video only.
Similarly, for a Vimeo video, you can use the full video player URL or just the video ID, like this:
<pre><code>[responsive_vimeo https://vimeo.com/29506088 ]
[responsive_vimeo 29506088]
</code></pre>
There is a more complete treatment of the shortcode syntax in the settings screen of the plugin itself.
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 3.0 +</li>
</ul>
<h3>Contributing</h3>
Use anonymous svn to get a current trunk copy, or build a patch against your current install, then email the patch to me for consideration.

Responsive Video Light

Embed responsive YouTube or Vimeo videos in pages, posts, or even the "text" widget using a super-simple shortcode.

Eco-Shield vs Responsive Video Light