MaTachi

<p>Use this plugin when you want to display a list of recent YouTube videos from a<br />
channel or playlist in your site’s sidebar.</p>
<p>This plugin is a fork of Aleksandar Urošević’s <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/youtube-channel/" rel="ugc">YouTube<br />
Channel</a>. This plugin is much<br />
more lightweight and does only have a subset of YouTube Channel’s features.</p>
<p>The videos are each only presented with a thumbnail, and optionally also its<br />
title and/or description. Clicking a thumbnail takes the user to the video’s<br />
page on YouTube. This results in a much smaller codebase and no additional<br />
front-end dependencies. The original plugin, YouTube Channel by Aleksandar<br />
Urošević, on the other hand depends on several JavaScript libraries<br />
(<a href="http://jquery.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">jQuery</a>, <a href="http://fitvidsjs.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">FitVids.JS</a> and<br />
<a href="http://dimsemenov.com/plugins/magnific-popup/" rel="nofollow ugc">Magnific Popup</a>), which<br />
potentially makes the whole WordPress site both slower to load and use.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Display latest videos from YouTube channel, favorites or playlist.</li>
<li>Option to get random videos from resources mentioned above.</li>
<li>The videos are displayed with a thumbnail.</li>
<li>Clicking a thumbnail takes the user to the video’s page on YouTube.</li>
<li>Custom caching timeout.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Styling</h4>
<p>You can use the <code>style.css</code> from your theme to style the widget’s content.</p>
<ul>
<li><code>.youtube_channel</code> – Main widget wrapper class (non-responsive block has<br />
additional class <code>default</code>, responsive block has additional class<br />
  responsive).</li>
<li><code>.ytc_title</code> – Class of video title above thumbnail.</li>
<li><code>.ytc_video_container</code> – Class of a single item’s container wrapper.</li>
<li><code>.ytc_video_1</code>, <code>.ytc_video_2</code>, … – Class for the container of a single<br />
item where the number is the item’s placement in the list.</li>
<li><code>.ytc_video_first</code> – Class of the first item’s container.</li>
<li><code>.ytc_video_last</code> – Class of the last item’s container.</li>
<li><code>.ytc_video_mid</code> – Class of all other containers.</li>
<li><code>.ytc_description</code> – Class for video description text.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Developer</h4>
<p>The full source code of the plugin can be found on Github at<br />
<a href="https://github.com/MaTachi/lightweight-youtube-channel-widget" rel="nofollow ugc">github.com/MaTachi/lightweight-youtube-channel-widget</a>.</p>
<h4>Credits</h4>
<ul>
<li>Original codebase (<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/youtube-channel/" rel="ugc">YouTube Channel version<br />
2.4.1.3</a>) is written by<br />
<a href="http://urosevic.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">Aleksandar Urošević</a> and licensed under GPLv3.</li>
</ul>


Lightweight YouTube Channel Widget

Widget showing video thumbnails of recent videos from a YouTube channel or playlist.

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<p>Starting in WordPress 2.7, a menu is included in the upper-right corner of the Admin. The menu, by default, includes links allowing easy access to frequently used pages in the Admin. But there isn’t an option to add your own links!</p>
<p>Favorites Menu Manager allows you unfettered customization of that dropdown menu. You can easily add your own links, remove existing ones, and put them in the order you desire. Customizations are stored on a per-user basis, so each user can have their own collection of frequently used links.</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<p>Visit the <code>Users -> Edit Favorites Menu</code> page of the Admin to add, remove, and reorder items in the Favorite Actions menu.</p>
<p>The easiest way to add a new item is to visit the page you wish to add, then choose the “Bookmark This” option from the menu. You will be taken to a Manage Favorites Menu screen, where you can adjust the name of the menu item before pressing the button to accept.</p>
<p>Be careful of the Remove links when managing the menu. The item will be removed immediately. You will NOT be prompted.</p>
<h3>Upgrading</h3>
<p>The easiest way to update the plugin is to use the automatic plugin upgrader found in all versions of WordPress since 2.5.x. Just visit the Plugins page and if a new version is available, click the link to update the plugin. WordPress will take care of the rest.</p>
<p>Manual Upgrade:<br />
1. Download the latest version of the plugin from the repository.<br />
2. Deactivate plugin<br />
3. Upload updated files<br />
4. Reactivate plugin</p>
<h3>Version history</h3>
<ol>
<li>Version 1.0</li>
</ol>


Favorites Menu Manager

Control what goes into the favorite actions menu in WordPress 2.7+

Lightweight YouTube Channel Widget vs Favorites Menu Manager