Dr. Ronny Harbich

<h4>General Information and Features</h4>
The Falconiform YouTube Widget allows you to add YouTube videos to your sidebars. This is easily done by adding the widget to a sidebar in the administration interface. After that you simply paste the link (URL) of the desired YouTube video (or the video ID) into the appropriate widget settings field. You can adjust the following settings:
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<li>widget title</li>
<li>YouTube video ID</li>
<li>player width (automatic width possible)</li>
<li>player height (automatic height possible)</li>
<li>player theme</li>
<li>color of the player’s video progress bar</li>
<li>player controls visibility</li>
<li>hide controls / progress bar at playback</li>
<li>start playback automatically</li>
<li>restart the video automatically after playback ends (loop video)</li>
<li>show related videos after playback ends</li>
<li>show video information like the video title</li>
<li>show video annotations</li>
<li>show fullscreen button</li>
<li>hide YouTube logo in the controls bar</li>
<li>disable keyboard control for the player</li>
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<h4>Editors Can Specify Videos</h4>
Optionally, the Falconiform YouTube Widget allows users with Editor rights to specify the video that is shown in the sidebar. In WordPress Editors are not allowed to change widget settings. Therefore the Falconiform YouTube Widget adds an extra menu to the administration interface that allows Editors to specify videos that are linked with one or more YouTube widgets (via index number).
If you don’t want Editors to specify videos, you can disable this in the widget settings (disabled by default).
<h4>Technical Details</h4>
The Falconiform YouTube Widget embeds the YouTube player as <a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/embedded-content-0.html#the-iframe-element" rel="nofollow ugc">HTML5 iFrame</a>. Details about the YouTube player can be found at <a href="https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters" rel="nofollow ugc">YouTube Embedded Players and Player Parameters</a>. The HTML output of this plugin was checked against HTML5 conformance successfully.
<h4>Support</h4>
The Falconiform YouTube Widget is delivered in the following languages:
<ul>
<li>English (en_US)</li>
<li>German (de_DE)</li>
</ul>
If you want to translate this plugin in your language, you can use <a href="http://www.poedit.net/download.php" rel="nofollow ugc">Poedit</a>. The “pot” file is located in the <code>/falconiform-youtube-widget/languages/</code> directory. You can send me your translation (a “po” file) to youtube-widget@falconiform.de and I will add it to the next release.
I use the Falconiform YouTube Widget myself on a website. Hence, I will update this plugin for future WordPress versions and add new features.
If you have found a bug or wish to have new features, please add a ticket in the Support section or send an email to youtube-widget@falconiform.de

Falconiform YouTube Widget

Add YouTube videos to your sidebars with this highly customizable widget.

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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.
</li>
</ul>
<h3>TO DO</h3>
In the plan for the next major upgrade (v3) :
<ul>
<li>
Rewrite the core of the display functions.
</li>
<li>
A simpler/quicker way of inserting the shortcode.
</li>
<li>
HTML5 implementation.
</li>
</ul>
In the back of my mind…
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<li>
Develop some «height & width» presets.
</li>
<li>
Google Analytics integration.
</li>
<li>
Take over the world.
</li>
</ul>
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.

Falconiform YouTube Widget vs Enhanced YouTube Shortcode