Brandon Shutter

<p>This plugin allows you to copy and paste a Soundcloud URL onto a page and it will display the Soundcloud player.</p>


oEmbed-Soundcloud

This plugin allows you to copy and paste a Soundcloud URL onto a page and it will display the Soundcloud player.

Darren Cooney

<p>Velocity is an alternative loading method to the standard to YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch and Soundcloud iframe embeds.</p>
<p>With Velocity you will decrease the loading time and increase overall performance of your website by lazy loading media on-demand instead of on initial page load.</p>
<p>To add Velocity to your site, simply create a Velocity shortcode by selecting a preview image and media type using the intuitive shortcode builder then add the generated snippet to your page.</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://connekthq.com/plugins/velocity/" rel="nofollow ugc">Get More Information</a></strong></p>
<h4>Shortcode Parameters</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>type</strong> – Choose a media type [youtube, vimeo, twitch, soundcloud].</li>
<li><strong>id</strong> – The ID of the media item.</li>
<li><strong>options</strong> – Add optional styling and display parameters for the embedded media – e.g. rel=0&controls=0&showinfo=0.</li>
<li><strong>playlist</strong> – Is this a Soundcloud playlist [true/false].</li>
<li><strong>img</strong> – The path to the preview image.</li>
<li><strong>alt</strong> – The alternative text to be attached to the preview image.</li>
<li><strong>color</strong> – Play button arrow color.</li>
<li><strong>bkg_color</strong> – Play button background color.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Example Shortcode</h4>
<pre><code>[velocity type="youtube" id="239793212" img="http://yourwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/image-1263626715.jpg" alt="Play Video"]
</code></pre>
<h4>Tested Browsers</h4>
<ul>
<li>Firefox (Mac, PC)</li>
<li>Chrome (Mac, PC, iOS, Android)</li>
<li>Safari (Mac, iOS)</li>
<li>IE10+</li>
<li>Android (Native)</li>
<li>BB10 (Native)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Website</h4>
<p>https://connekthq.com/plugins/velocity/</p>


Velocity – Video Lazy Loading for YouTube, Twitch and Vimeo

I wish it could manually grab the image thumbnail for me and load locally. The manual builder is enough work as it is.

Thank you for this great plugin, though.

works great, missing some key features

Improve website performance by lazy loading and customizing your YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch and SoundCloud media embeds.

oEmbed-Soundcloud vs Velocity – Video Lazy Loading for YouTube, Twitch and Vimeo