Le-Pixel-Solitaire

The “Enhanced YouTube Shortcode” plugin provides a quick & easy way to use a custom YouTube© player in your posts and/or pages without having to get your hands dirty in the source codes! The main advantage over the way WordPress is working this out is the possibility of changing the display of all players in one single spot instead of having to do it manually at every places it has been set. But most importantly: it’s fun and good for you! (check out the screenshot for a sample of all offered options!)
Now with more than 10 parameters available through a simple configuration page (reach it from the Settings Menu), the code that is generated always allows scripting access and forces the use of the ActionScript 3 engine (see Other Notes for limitations). It has been initially created on a WordPress 3.2.1 live installation & recently tested on a WordPress 3.9.1 live installation with success, according to the specifications of the official <a href="http://code.google.com/intl/fr-CA/apis/youtube/player_parameters.html" title="YouTube Embedded Player Parameters - Google Code" rel="nofollow ugc">YouTube Embed Player API Parameters</a>.
There are a couple of things on the To Do list (see Other Notes) & the developer is back on track with this project so you can expect a major upgrade soon (summer 2014)!
<h3>Limitations</h3>
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Internet Explorer is not a natural friend of YouTube… Every versions of this browser, from 6 all the way up to 9, have different bugs & even more ways to deal with YouTube videos. So in order to push a video to everyone this plugin will provide a player to Internet Explorer effectively but without other parameters than width & height. All the rest will be the default state of a “regular” YouTube video player. A future version should solve those issues by serving an all javascript player to this browser.
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The tests on WordPress 3.9.1 were quick, some features may be not working but this should not affect the plugin responsiveness. All bases will be covered in the next major release of the plugin (v3).
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Some WordPress themes that already have a bunch of shortcodes may cause conflicts with this one. Usually a quick look in the doc of your theme & you’ll find a way of injecting “raw” codes in your post without triggering any presets options.
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<h3>TO DO</h3>
In the plan for the next major upgrade (v3) :
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Rewrite the core of the display functions.
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A simpler/quicker way of inserting the shortcode.
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HTML5 implementation.
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In the back of my mind…
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Develop some «height & width» presets.
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Google Analytics integration.
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Take over the world.
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Not necessarily in that order…
<h3>License</h3>
This plugin (and all its related files) falls under the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt" title="GNU General Public License - Version 3" rel="nofollow ugc">GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE v3</a>.

Enhanced YouTube Shortcode

A quick & simple way to include YouTube videos in your Wordpress posts with a neat centralized options panel to manage the player's output.

Hugh Lashbrooke

The WordPress media player is great, but the default styling doesn’t fit into too many themes. Couple that with the fact that there aren’t a lot of theme developers who add custom styles for the media player and you have the need for Media Player Style Kit – a simple way to change your media player colors without writing a single line of code.
Features
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<li>Easily editable colors in the familiar Customizer interface</li>
<li>No need to write custom CSS or any other code</li>
<li>Live previews of color changes inside the Customizer</li>
<li>Replaces the media player buttons with the WordPress Dashicons font for easy customization</li>
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Media Player Style Kit will work with any WordPress site. It will customize the display of the built-in WordPress media player and not media players added by other plugins/themes.
How to contribute
If you want to contribute to Media Player Style Kit, you can <a href="https://github.com/hlashbrooke/Media-Player-Style-Kit" rel="nofollow ugc">fork the GitHub repository</a> – all pull requests will be reviewed and merged if they fit into the goals for the plugin.

Media Player Style Kit

I was setting up SSP and realized I wanted to brand the media player. Then I noticed this plugin and BAM, it works perfect and so simple.



Branding for the win

Change the colors of the WordPress media player directly from the Customizer.

Enhanced YouTube Shortcode vs Media Player Style Kit