mrwweb

cbirdsong

<p>If you care about performance, privacy, and user experience, this block is for you.</p>
<p>This plugin enhances the default YouTube and Vimeo blocks—including any existing blocks—and changes their behavior to only load the video thumbnail until a visitor chooses to play the video.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Load YouTube videos faster (uses the <code>lite-youtube</code> custom-element)</li>
<li>Load Vimeo videos faster (uses the <code>lite-viemo</code> custom-element)</li>
<li>Loads YouTube videos from nocookie.youtube.com for enhanced privacy</li>
<li>Works without JavaScript (shows link to video instead in a player-like design)</li>
<li>No plugin lock-in! Automatically improves the core Embed block. Turn the plugin off and the behavior goes back to the WordPress default.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Want more features?</h4>
<p>I’m considering building a PRO version with the potential following features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Options to set a custom start and end time</li>
<li>Custom thumbnail images for videos</li>
<li>Custom aspect ratios for videos</li>
<li>Support for YouTube shorts</li>
<li>Control whether to load video from nocookie.youtube.com or not</li>
<li>Adjust the image quality of the thumbnail</li>
<li>Support for playlists, not just single videos</li>
<li>Full support for all YouTube query parameters (https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters)</li>
<li>Classic Editor / [embed] shortcode support</li>
</ul>
<p>If enough people express interest, I’ll build it! <a href="https://mrwweb.com/wordpress-plugins/enhanced-embed-block/#pro" rel="nofollow ugc">Let me know if you’re interested!</a></p>
<h4>Contribute on Github</h4>
<p><a href="https://github.com/mrwweb/enhanced-embed-block" rel="nofollow ugc">Enhanced Embed Block is on Github</a> for pull requests and bug reports.</p>
<h3>Software</h3>
<p>This plugin uses the <a href="https://github.com/justinribeiro/lite-youtube" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>lite-youtube</code> custom-element</a> under the MIT license. Thank you to Paul Irish and Justin Ribiero for their work on that project.</p>
<p>This plugin uses the <a href="https://github.com/cshawaus/lite-vimeo" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>lite-vimeo</code> custom-element</a> under the MIT license. Thank you to Chris Shaw for their work on that project.</p>


Enhanced Embed Block for YouTube & Vimeo

Enhance the default YouTube and Vimeo Embed blocks to load faster.

Sutherland Boswell

<p>Video Thumbnails makes it easy to automatically display video thumbnails in your template. When you publish a post, this plugin will find the first video embedded and retrieve a thumbnail for you. Thumbnails can be saved to your media library and set as a featured image automatically. There’s even support for custom post types and custom fields!</p>
<p><strong>Version 3.0</strong> is on the way soon!</p>
<h4>Video Thumbnails Pro</h4>
<p><a href="https://refactored.co/plugins/video-thumbnails" rel="nofollow ugc">Video Thumbnails Pro</a> adds new options like maximum image sizes, widescreen cropping, more powerful bulk scanning, a customizable upload directory, and more!</p>
<h4>Supported Sites</h4>
<ul>
<li>YouTube</li>
<li>Vimeo</li>
<li>Facebook</li>
<li>Vine</li>
<li>Twitch</li>
<li>Dailymotion</li>
<li>Metacafe</li>
<li>TED</li>
<li>VK</li>
<li>Blip</li>
<li>Google Drive</li>
<li>Funny or Die</li>
<li>CollegeHumor</li>
<li>MPORA</li>
<li>Livestream</li>
<li>Yahoo Screen</li>
<li>Wistia</li>
<li>Youku</li>
<li>Tudou</li>
<li>SAPO</li>
<li>Rutube</li>
</ul>
<p>Video Thumbnails even works with most video plugins, including:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://refactored.co/plugins/video-importer" rel="nofollow ugc">Refactored Video Importer</a></li>
<li>Viper’s Video Quicktags</li>
</ul>
<h4>Help Translate</h4>
<p><a href="http://translate.refactored.co/blog/" rel="nofollow ugc">Register on our translation site</a> to help bring Video Thumbnails to more languages.</p>
<h4>Our Other Plugins</h4>
<p><a href="https://refactored.co/plugins/video-thumbnails" rel="nofollow ugc">Video Thumbnails Pro</a> | <a href="https://refactored.co/plugins/video-importer" rel="nofollow ugc">Video Importer</a> | <a href="http://retinamatic.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Retinamatic</a></p>
<h3>Known Issues</h3>
<ul>
<li>In some cases you may have to manually search for thumbnails on the post editor</li>
</ul>
<h3>Roadmap</h3>
<p>Version 3.0 is being finished up for release soon.</p>


Video Thumbnails

Video Thumbnails simplifies the process of automatically displaying video thumbnails in your WordPress template.

Enhanced Embed Block for YouTube & Vimeo vs Video Thumbnails