MaTachi

Use this plugin when you want to display a list of recent YouTube videos from a 
channel or playlist in your site’s sidebar.
This plugin is a fork of Aleksandar Urošević’s <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/youtube-channel/" rel="ugc">YouTube 
Channel</a>. This plugin is much 
more lightweight and does only have a subset of YouTube Channel’s features.
The videos are each only presented with a thumbnail, and optionally also its 
title and/or description. Clicking a thumbnail takes the user to the video’s 
page on YouTube. This results in a much smaller codebase and no additional 
front-end dependencies. The original plugin, YouTube Channel by Aleksandar 
Urošević, on the other hand depends on several JavaScript libraries 
(<a href="http://jquery.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">jQuery</a>, <a href="http://fitvidsjs.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">FitVids.JS</a> and 
<a href="http://dimsemenov.com/plugins/magnific-popup/" rel="nofollow ugc">Magnific Popup</a>), which 
potentially makes the whole WordPress site both slower to load and use.
<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>
You can use the <code>style.css</code> from your theme to style the widget’s content.
<ul>
<li><code>.youtube_channel</code> – Main widget wrapper class (non-responsive block has 
additional class <code>default</code>, responsive block has additional class 
 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 
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>
The full source code of the plugin can be found on Github at 
<a href="https://github.com/MaTachi/lightweight-youtube-channel-widget" rel="nofollow ugc">github.com/MaTachi/lightweight-youtube-channel-widget</a>.
<h4>Credits</h4>
<ul>
<li>Original codebase (<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/youtube-channel/" rel="ugc">YouTube Channel version 
2.4.1.3</a>) is written by 
<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.

Takashi Matsuyama

Save user’s favorite posts and list them. 
This plugin is simple. You can save the user’s favorite posts just a install and display them anywhere you want with just a shortcode. 
The logged-in user’s data is saved in the user meta. Other user’s data is saved to Web Storage (localStorage).
<h3>Usage</h3>
<ul>
<li>Shortcode: <code>[ccc_my_favorite_select_button post_id="" style=""]</code></li>
<li>Shortcode: <code>[ccc_my_favorite_list_menu slug="" text="" style=""]</code></li>
<li>Shortcode: <code>[ccc_my_favorite_list_results class="" style=""]</code></li>
</ul>
For pages with a shortcode for list view ([ccc_my_favorite_list_results]).
“Load More” is displayed with “posts_per_page”. 
It will be displayed when the user has more favorite posts than “posts_per_page”.
<ul>
<li>Shortcode: <code>[ccc_my_favorite_list_results posts_per_page="10"]</code> default is 100 posts.</li>
</ul>
You can display the post’s “excerpt”. 
This value is the char length. 
If not needed, use “no excerpt” or “0”.
<ul>
<li>Shortcode: <code>[ccc_my_favorite_list_results excerpt="30"]</code></li>
</ul>
If you want, you can change the code for list view yourself.
<ul>
<li>Shortcode: <code>[ccc_my_favorite_list_custom_template style=""]</code></li>
</ul>
For pages with a shortcode for custom list view ([ccc_my_favorite_list_custom_template]). 
Add the function (<code>function ccc_my_favorite_list_custom_template( $my_favorite_post_id ) { }</code>) for your list view to <code>your-theme/functions.php</code>. 
 $my_favorite_post_id is array. 
 style=”none” excludes the default CSS for the list.
Detailed usage is under preparation.
<h3>Discover More</h3>
This plugin is <a href="https://github.com/takashi-matsuyama/my-favorites" rel="nofollow ugc">developed on GitHub</a>

My Favorites

Save user's favorite posts and list them.

Lightweight YouTube Channel Widget vs My Favorites