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.

mrzerog

<p>WP Favorites allows your logged in users to favorite a tag, and allows them to see only posts that have that tag. They can also favorite multiple tags, and see only posts that have all those tags (or optionally any post with any of those tags). Example: You run a site about tea, iced and hot, green black and white. You tag every post green, black, or white, as well as iced or hot. Your user only likes iced green tea, so they favorite the ‘iced’ tag, and the ‘green’ tag. Then, they can see only posts pertaining to iced green tea (or optionally any post’s tagged either iced or green). Users are able to favorite a tag from it’s archive page.</p>


wp_favorites

wp_favorites allows a logged in user to favorite a tag or tags and then show only posts that have that tag or a combination of those tags

Lightweight YouTube Channel Widget vs wp_favorites