Devnet

Marin Matosevic

<p><strong>PingVid</strong> is a lightweight WordPress plugin that adds a floating video widget to your site. It works great with <strong>YouTube Shorts</strong>, as well as other standard YouTube video formats.</p>
<p>After the page loads, a small video player appears in the corner of the screen and begins autoplaying <strong>without sound</strong>. When a user clicks the video, it expands slightly and plays with sound, creating an engaging, non-intrusive experience.</p>
<p>Perfect for promotional clips, product teasers, or short video messages that draw attention without overwhelming the page content.</p>
<h3><a href="https://devnet.hr/docs/pingvid/" rel="nofollow ugc">DOCUMENTATION</a></h3>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Floating video widget that auto-plays on page load</li>
<li>Works best with YouTube Shorts and regular YouTube videos</li>
<li>Plays muted by default; expands and plays with sound on click</li>
<li>Responsive design with dynamic aspect ratio adjustment</li>
<li>Clean UI with a close button</li>
</ul>
<h3>Early Development Notice</h3>
<p><strong>PingVid</strong> is in the early stages of development, and we’re actively working to expand its features. Future updates will include support for additional features and deeper integrations.</p>
<p>Your feedback is invaluable! If you have specific needs or suggestions, please share them in the support forum. We appreciate your support and look forward to improving PingVid with your input.</p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>We’re here to help. Feel free to open a new thread on the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/pingvid/" rel="ugc">Support Forum</a>.</p>
<h3>Reviews</h3>
<p>It’s funny how much joy all those 5-star reviews bring to our team. It really keeps us going and motivates us to bring more cool features.<br />
If you like this plugin, feel free to leave a <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/pingvid/reviews/#new-post" rel="ugc">review</a>.</p>
<h3>Other Plugins by Devnet</h3>
<p>Here are some other plugins we have developed that you might find useful:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/free-shipping-label/" rel="ugc">Free Shipping Label</a> – Increase order revenue by showing your customers just how close they are to your free shipping threshold.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/product-price-history/" rel="ugc">Product Price History</a> – Track product price history with customizable charts and graphs on your WooCommerce store. Show lowest price and increase customer trust.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/price-alerts/" rel="ugc">Price Alerts</a> – Let customers subscribe to price drops and boost sales by notifying interested buyers when product prices fall below their target.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-subscribe/" rel="ugc">Easy Subscribe</a> – Effortlessly integrate customizable subscription forms on your WordPress site with a simple shortcode.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-booking-calendar/" rel="ugc">Easy Booking Calendar</a> – Turn any product into a reservation-ready item. This plugin adds a customizable calendar to product pages, allowing customers to select date ranges for bookings.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/biznotes/" rel="ugc">BizNotes</a> – Exclusive admin notes for seamless order management among multiple admins. Effortless collaboration, powered up.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/pingvid/" rel="ugc">PingVid</a> – A lightweight WordPress plugin that adds a floating video widget to your site.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/snap-blocks/" rel="ugc">Snap Blocks</a> – A lightweight plugin that lets you create reusable content blocks in WordPress.</li>
</ul>


PingVid

Floating YouTube video that autoplays muted on load and expands with sound on click—perfect for Shorts and promos.

Nick Halsey

<p>Floating (Social Media) Links is designed to allow anyone to add a simple floating frame to their wordpress website/blog, which contains icons and links to their social media and/or partners’ websites. And before you read too far you should know that I’m among those who strongly dislike “floating” animations, so this plugin does a clean simple “stay-in-place” (sticky) float with no animation for an incredibly clean look.</p>
<p>The plugin is extremely flexible because of its custom links. In addition to a couple of built-in social media links, you can upload your own icons/logos that link to anything. You could create a small, persistent navigation bar, link to partner sites, link to sites for other parts of your organization, link to any of your social media, or any combination of the above.</p>
<p>On the social media side, the purposes of this plugin are highly customizable options and clean and simple linked icons rather than the cluitter of numerous “share” buttons (although popular “action buttons” can still be included). Instead of simply asking visitors to acknowledge their appreciation of your work (by liking or following), this encourages them to also check out your social media <em>content</em>, increasing real social interaction (more so than simply using page “likes” to indicate interaction). Also, as native OS/browser support for “share” features becomes the norm, it is redundant to clutter your site with buttons that share content.</p>
<p>This plugin features a refreshingly user-oriented interface for the admin that scales to users with varying desire for customization. If you want a quick set-up, you can focus on the most commonly used options and pick a frame theme that works with your site. If you like customizing stuff, you can configure the detailed components of everything from cookies to colors to z-indicies. The plugin followsa principles that prevent you from reading through irrelevant options (like frame-hide animation if you’ve chosen not to let users hide the frame), and hides less frequently used options by default. Easy to use for ANYONE!</p>
<p>For web designers and developers, you may customize which pages the frame appears on with your theme templates, and you can use custom, dynamic php-generated links (see the FAQ for details).</p>
<p>Please feel free to offer any feature suggestions you might have (through the support forums or by <a href="http://celloexpressions.com/dev/contact" rel="nofollow ugc">contacting me</a>) and I WILL consider them for future releases. Any and all feedback/suggestions, positive or negative, is useful!</p>


Floating Social Media Links

Add a clean and simple floating frame, with social media and/or custom links, to your website/blog.

PingVid vs Floating Social Media Links