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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.

Tubal

A really simple and very lightweight plugin to embed customized Youtube videos & playlists anywhere in your blog or website using wordpress shortcodes.
<h4>Documentation, live demos and support</h4>
All documentation and demos are located at the <a href="http://www.margenn.com/tubal/youtube_shortcode/" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin website</a>.
The plugin website is proudly powered by WordPress and nearly all posts show a live demo so you can check how Youtube videos behave under every scenario/configuration such as:
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<li>Window resizing (resize the browser window to check how “fluid” videos adapt to fit)</li>
<li>Mobile viewing (visit the website with your mobile and check how videos look)</li>
<li>RSS viewing (subscribe to the feed and check how videos look in your RSS reader)</li>
<li>Different parameters for the Youtube player</li>
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What’s more, I’ve added <a href="http://youtubesc.uservoice.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Uservoice feedback</a> so you can share your ideas and issues. I want to hear from you. You can also post comments on every article.
I’ve moved all documentation to a website because I think it’s great to have a real WordPress environment set up and running with a working version of the plugin (latest) and a live demo for every piece of documentation.
<h4>Features:</h4>
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<li>Supports all official YouTube player customization parameters and respects Youtube’s default values: <a href="http://code.google.com/intl/en/apis/youtube/player_parameters.html" title="Official documentation" rel="nofollow ugc">Youtube official documentation</a>. You can override any default value.</li>
<li>Supports TinyMCE editor button (1.7+ version) to make it easier for you to customize the Youtube video player (auto-inserts the shortcode).</li>
<li>Supports RSS readers, Mobile browsers and fluid/elastic layouts.</li>
<li>Supports automatic calculation of video height. Just set the Youtube player <code>width</code> and omit the <code>height</code> parameter in the shortcode. There’s no need to set a height manually to get the perfect height.</li>
<li>Supports automatic localization of Flash videos (“old embed code” only). This plugin detects the visitor’s preferred language to set the default language of the Youtube player UI & the video’s captions/subtitles (otherwise en_US would be set by default for every visitor).</li>
<li>Supports normal Youtube URLs, short Youtube URLs, embed Youtube URLs and Youtube’s video ID as value for <code>url</code> parameter.</li>
<li>Supports setting a different “title” attribute for each Youtube video (useful for SEO & Accessibility).</li>
<li>Supports both the deprecated Youtube AS2 Flash player and the new iframe player (AS3 Flash or HTML5). This plugin uses Youtube’s new embed code (iframe: AS3 or HTML5 player) by default but optionally you can use the deprecated AS2 player (Flash only). The new embed code (iframe) will take care of the environment capabilities. This way you know your video will work on most devices, including mobile devices (that have Adobe’s Flash 10.1 installed or support CSS, iframes and basic Javascript) and RSS readers.</li>
<li>Supports web browsers with no Javascript support or with Javascript disabled. If a web browser does not support Javascript or Javascript is disabled, Youtube’s new embed code will not work. In that case this plugin will try to show the Youtube video using Adobe’s Flash (If Flash is not installed or enabled, the plugin will show the user what to do).</li>
<li>Developer friendly: <code>wp-content</code> directory can be renamed or moved safely to a different location. For more info read <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Moving_wp-content" rel="nofollow ugc">Moving wp-content</a></li>
<li>Tested on IE 6+, Firefox 2+, Opera 8+, Safari 3+, Chrome 5+, iOS & Android (Webkit mobile), Opera mobile, Firefox mobile (Fennec) and RSS readers (such as Google Reader and NetNewsWire).</li>
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<h4>Roadmap</h4>
In version 1.9 I’ll develop a settings page so that you can store configuration defaults for every Youtube video.
Support its development <a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=6W2TXS68W7A8Y" rel="nofollow ugc">donating a few bucks 🙂</a> (PayPal).
Plugin developed by Túbal Martín at <a href="http://www.margenn.com" rel="nofollow ugc">www.margenn.com</a>.

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