Dr. Ronny Harbich

<h4>General Information and Features</h4>
<p>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:</p>
<ul>
<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>
</ul>
<h4>Editors Can Specify Videos</h4>
<p>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).</p>
<p>If you don’t want Editors to specify videos, you can disable this in the widget settings (disabled by default).</p>
<h4>Technical Details</h4>
<p>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.</p>
<h4>Support</h4>
<p>The Falconiform YouTube Widget is delivered in the following languages:</p>
<ul>
<li>English (en_US)</li>
<li>German (de_DE)</li>
</ul>
<p>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.</p>
<p>I use the Falconiform YouTube Widget myself on a website. Hence, I will update this plugin for future WordPress versions and add new features.</p>
<p>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</p>


Falconiform YouTube Widget

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

Tubal

<p>A really simple and very lightweight plugin to embed customized Youtube videos & playlists anywhere in your blog or website using wordpress shortcodes.</p>
<h4>Documentation, live demos and support</h4>
<p>All documentation and demos are located at the <a href="http://www.margenn.com/tubal/youtube_shortcode/" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin website</a>.</p>
<p>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:</p>
<ul>
<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>
</ul>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<h4>Features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Supports <strong>all official YouTube player customization parameters</strong> 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 <strong>TinyMCE editor button</strong> (1.7+ version) to make it easier for you to customize the Youtube video player (auto-inserts the shortcode).</li>
<li>Supports <strong>RSS readers, Mobile browsers and fluid/elastic layouts</strong>.</li>
<li>Supports <strong>automatic calculation of video height</strong>. 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 <strong>automatic localization of Flash videos</strong> (“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 <strong>normal</strong> Youtube URLs, <strong>short</strong> Youtube URLs, <strong>embed</strong> Youtube URLs and Youtube’s <strong>video ID</strong> as value for <code>url</code> parameter.</li>
<li>Supports <strong>setting a different “title” attribute</strong> for each Youtube video (useful for <strong>SEO</strong> & <strong>Accessibility</strong>).</li>
<li>Supports <strong>both the deprecated Youtube AS2 Flash player and the new iframe player (AS3 Flash or HTML5)</strong>. 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 <strong>web browsers with no Javascript support or with Javascript disabled</strong>. 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><strong>Developer friendly:</strong> <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>
</ul>
<h4>Roadmap</h4>
<p>In version 1.9 I’ll develop a settings page so that you can store configuration defaults for every Youtube video.</p>
<p>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).</p>
<p>Plugin developed by Túbal Martín at <a href="http://www.margenn.com" rel="nofollow ugc">www.margenn.com</a>.</p>


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