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.

mbergann

This plugin creates a video-gallery for youtube- or vimeo-videos or direct video-file-links by simply defining the gallery with shortcodes. 
The Videos will be opened in a lightbox.
By default the “<a href="https://photoswipe.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">PhotoSwipe</a>“-Lightbox of Dmitry Semenov is used. 
(at the moment it is the only one)
This plugin is really simple and clean designed to be easily extendable. 
* there is a “src/VideoProvider”-directory where every Video-Platform (like youtube or vimeo) is defined in an own php-class implementing a class-interface. 
* there is a “src/Lightbox”-directory where every lightbox is defined in an own php-class, implementing a class-interface 
* there is a “src/Shortcodes”-directory where the “[video-gallery]”-Shortcode is defined – that is where the magic happenes – but there is no need to edit this file.
<h4>Parameters and video-provider-specific specials</h4>
All parameters – general parameters and also video-provider-specific parameters are set directly in the [[video-gallery]]-Shortcode.
<h4>general</h4>
 parameter 
 description 
 default
 lightbox 
 name of the lightbox-class that should be used 
 PhotoSwipe
<h4>Youtube</h4>
 parameter 
 description 
 default
 yt_nocookie 
 use youtube-nocookie.com instead of youtube.com in video-links to be GDPR(DSGVO)-save 
 true
<h4>Vimeo</h4>
In vimeo the preview-image-URL doesn’t use the video-ID – so you need to make an API-request to get the image-URL. 
In this API-call we also get the original title of the video. 
For this reason we need the php CURL extension. 
The thumbnail will be taken from the API-response. 
When no manual video-title is defined, the video-provider-class uses also the original video-title from API-response automaticly.
<h3>Extending the Plugin</h3>
You can easily extend the Plugin by writing your own classes for Video-Platforms or other Lightboxes – you just have to implement the Interfaces.

Video-Link-Gallery

Video-Gallery defined by shortcodes for youtube, vimeo and direct links, opening videos in a lightbox (default-lightbox: "PhotoSwipe")

Eco-Shield vs Video-Link-Gallery