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<p>SDAweb Channels for YouTube is a lightweight, privacy-friendly way to showcase YouTube content on your WordPress site. Add any number of public YouTube channels and display their videos using shortcodes or a Gutenberg block. Videos are cached locally so visitor page views consume zero API quota.</p>
<h4>Layouts & Playback</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Grid</strong> — Responsive multi-column grid (1–4 columns)</li>
<li><strong>Tabs</strong> — Channel-tabbed interface with 3 navigation modes: scroll, wrapping pills, and avatar strip</li>
<li><strong>Slider</strong> — Horizontal carousel with arrow navigation</li>
<li><strong>Auto player</strong> (default) — Adapts to screen size: inline on desktop, lightbox on mobile phones</li>
<li><strong>Lightbox player</strong> — Fullscreen overlay with keyboard shortcuts (arrow keys, Escape), swipe gestures, and prev/next navigation</li>
<li><strong>Inline player</strong> — Play directly inside the video card with expand-to-lightbox</li>
<li><strong>Link mode</strong> — Opens videos on YouTube in a new tab</li>
<li><strong>Avatar strip</strong> — Compact row of channel avatars with labeled names and smart truncation</li>
<li><strong>Mobile bottom sheet</strong> — Touch-optimized player with swipe-to-dismiss</li>
<li><strong>Landscape mobile</strong> — Optimized layouts: horizontal cards for live streams, 2-column grid for regular content</li>
</ul>
<h4>Live & Upcoming Streams</h4>
<ul>
<li>Automatic detection of live broadcasts and scheduled upcoming streams</li>
<li>Smart sort order: live streams first, then all streams sorted by proximity to the current time — the most relevant broadcasts always appear first</li>
<li>Dedicated <code>[sdawchfo_live]</code> shortcode for live and upcoming content</li>
<li>Live badge with concurrent viewer count and pulse animation</li>
<li>Upcoming badge with scheduled start time countdown</li>
<li>Toggleable “Live now” and “Coming up” section headings</li>
<li>Stale guard: upcoming streams auto-expire after 6 hours, live after 24 hours — no stuck statuses</li>
<li>5-minute background polling keeps live status current (1-minute with Broadcast Boost)</li>
<li>Live Broadcast Boost — configurable day/time window for 1-minute polling during scheduled broadcasts</li>
<li>Zero-quota RSS feed discovery catches scheduled broadcasts not in the uploads playlist</li>
<li>Live and upcoming streams are automatically excluded from regular shortcodes</li>
</ul>
<h4>Channel Management</h4>
<ul>
<li>Add channels by URL, handle (@username), or channel ID</li>
<li>Drag-and-drop reordering controls tab and section display order</li>
<li>Custom labels per channel for friendly display names</li>
<li>Automatic video caching with configurable 1–24 hour refresh intervals (up to 3 channels per cron run)</li>
<li>Manual refresh per channel or all channels at once</li>
<li>Import and export channels and settings as JSON</li>
</ul>
<h4>Shortcodes</h4>
<p>Four shortcodes cover every use case:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>[sdawchfo_channel]</code> — Videos from a single channel (by id, handle, or label)</li>
<li><code>[sdawchfo_channels]</code> — Multiple channels in grid, tabs, or slider layout</li>
<li><code>[sdawchfo_feed]</code> — Combined feed mixing videos from all channels</li>
<li><code>[sdawchfo_live]</code> — Live and upcoming streams with empty-state message</li>
</ul>
<p>All shortcodes support these attributes: <code>count</code>, <code>columns</code>, <code>layout</code>, <code>sort</code>, <code>player</code>, <code>pagination</code>, <code>per_page</code>, <code>show_stats</code>, <code>show_duration</code>, <code>show_channel</code>, and <code>live_only</code>.</p>
<h4>Additional Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Gutenberg block with live preview and inspector controls</li>
<li>Shortcode builder in the admin dashboard — no coding required</li>
<li>Customizable frontend labels (26 strings) for full translation support</li>
<li>Customizable appearance: badge styles, button styles, tab colors, and time text colors with color pickers</li>
<li>Load More pagination with configurable batch size</li>
<li>Video stats: views, likes, duration, publish date</li>
<li>Detects and labels YouTube Shorts</li>
<li>Up to 100 videos per channel with automatic API pagination</li>
<li>Import/export for easy migration between sites</li>
<li>Tab navigation modes: scroll, wrapping pills, or avatar strip</li>
<li>REST API endpoints for custom and headless integrations</li>
<li>Server cron setup guidance in the admin settings</li>
<li>Channel name truncation setting for the avatar strip</li>
<li>Automatic cleanup of private and deleted videos from cache</li>
<li>Dark theme support via CSS custom property (–sdawchfo-card-bg)</li>
<li>Admin settings: tabbed Plugin Overview with 7 sections, quick-access links, and info tooltips explaining technical terms</li>
</ul>
<h4>Privacy & Performance</h4>
<ul>
<li>All video data is cached in your local database</li>
<li>Visitor page views make zero external API calls</li>
<li>No cookies are set and no visitor data is sent to third parties</li>
<li>YouTube embeds use the privacy-enhanced <code>youtube-nocookie.com</code> domain</li>
<li>YouTube embeds load only when a visitor clicks play</li>
<li>Lazy loading: thumbnail images load only when they scroll into view</li>
</ul>
<h3>Third-Party Services</h3>
<h4>YouTube Data API v3</h4>
<p>This plugin connects to the YouTube Data API v3 to fetch channel information and video data. API calls are made server-side only when:</p>
<ul>
<li>An admin adds or refreshes a channel</li>
<li>The scheduled cron refresh runs (configurable interval, default 6 hours)</li>
<li>The live status cron runs (every 5 minutes, or every 1 minute during a configured Broadcast Boost window)</li>
</ul>
<p>No API calls are made during normal visitor page views — all data is served from the local cache.</p>
<ul>
<li>Service provider: Google LLC</li>
<li>API endpoint: <code>https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3</code></li>
<li><a href="https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms/api-services-terms-of-service" rel="nofollow ugc">YouTube API Terms of Service</a></li>
<li><a href="https://policies.google.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>
<p>A YouTube Data API v3 key is required. You can obtain one for free from the <a href="https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/credentials" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Cloud Console</a>.</p>
<h4>YouTube RSS Feeds</h4>
<p>This plugin fetches public YouTube RSS feeds (<code>https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml</code>) to discover recently published and scheduled videos. These requests are read-only, use no API quota, and contain only publicly available video IDs.</p>
<ul>
<li>Service provider: Google LLC (YouTube)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/t/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">YouTube Terms of Service</a></li>
<li><a href="https://policies.google.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>YouTube Embeds</h4>
<p>When a visitor clicks play on a video, an iframe loads from YouTube’s privacy-enhanced domain (<code>youtube-nocookie.com</code>). No embed loads until the visitor initiates playback. No cookies are set by this domain.</p>
<ul>
<li>Service provider: Google LLC (YouTube)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/t/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">YouTube Terms of Service</a></li>
<li><a href="https://policies.google.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>


SDAweb Channels for YouTube

Display YouTube channels with grids, tabs, sliders, live stream badges, and lightbox playback.

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wpvideogallery

<p>★★★★★ Trusted by 20,000+ WordPress sites</p>
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<p><strong>All-in-One Video Gallery</strong> is a video posts plugin that lets you add videos as posts and build scalable, searchable, SEO-optimized video galleries in minutes — no coding required.</p>
<p>Whether you need a single embedded video player or a full video-sharing website like YouTube or Vimeo, this plugin covers it. Suitable for course creators, video bloggers, podcasters, businesses, and anyone embedding video on WordPress.</p>
<h3>PLAYER FEATURES</h3>
<ul>
<li>A Custom HTML5 Video Player that supports <strong>MP4</strong>, <strong>WebM</strong>, <strong>OGV</strong>, <strong>HLS</strong>, <strong>MPEG-DASH</strong>, and embeddable players like <strong>YouTube</strong>, <strong>Vimeo</strong>, <strong>Dailymotion</strong>, <strong>Rumble</strong>, <strong>Facebook</strong>, <strong>Bunny Stream</strong> and more.</li>
<li><strong>Player Controls:</strong> play/pause buttons, timer, progress bar, duration, speed control, quality switcher, volume button, picture-in-picture button, fullscreen button, share buttons, embed button, download button, subtitles on/off, keyboard hotkeys</li>
<li><strong>Playback Options:</strong> autoplay, loop, muted, preload, playsinline</li>
<li>Subtitles & Captions (WebVTT).</li>
<li>Chapter Markers.</li>
<li>GDPR compatibility.</li>
<li>[+] support embed code from any third-party video sharing websites.</li>
</ul>
<h3>GALLERY FEATURES</h3>
<p>Back-End</p>
<ul>
<li>An user-friendly interface to upload and manage your videos.</li>
<li>Create unlimited categories/subcategories and tags.</li>
<li>Ability to group videos by categories and tags.</li>
<li>Create a featured videos group.</li>
<li>Bulk import videos from a CSV file or folder; export all your videos in one click.</li>
<li>Restrict video access globally or per video — allow all visitors, logged-in users only, logged-out users only, or specific user roles.</li>
<li>100+ settings (STILL COUNTING) that help you customize the plugin to the maximum you will need.</li>
</ul>
<p>Front-End</p>
<ul>
<li>Modern, Responsive design.</li>
<li>Categories display options: Grid, List</li>
<li>Sort categories by “ID”, “videos count”, “category name”, “slug” & “menu order (custom ordering)”.</li>
<li>Videos display options: Grid. More template options are available with our premium version.</li>
<li>Filter videos by “categories”, “tags” and “featured” meta key.</li>
<li>Sort videos by “video posted date”, “title”, “views count”, “likes count”, “dislikes count”, “random” & “menu order (custom ordering)”.</li>
<li>Ability to control the display of each HTML element in the gallery.</li>
<li>Filter videos on the same page using AJAX — search by keyword, category, or tag and sort by title, date, or popularity without a page reload.</li>
<li>Numeric Pagination for the large galleries.</li>
<li>Likes / Dislikes.</li>
<li>Social Sharing (Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Tumblr & WhatsApp).</li>
<li>Comments System.</li>
<li>Dedicated search form & layout.</li>
<li>Shortcode Builder to build the gallery shortcodes.</li>
<li>Gutenberg Blocks to build the gallery if your website uses the modern WordPress editor.</li>
<li>Widgets to list categories, list videos, display a single video player, and search videos.</li>
</ul>
<h3>DEVELOPER OPTIONS</h3>
<p>The videos (aiovg_videos) belong to a WordPress Custom Post Type. Similarly, the categories (aiovg_categories) and tags (aiovg_tags) belong to the WordPress Custom Taxonomy. The plugin doesn’t use any custom tables and the settings are stored in the WP_Options table using the WordPress SETTINGS API. In short, the plugin has been developed completely using the WordPress CORE features. So, if you’re a WordPress developer, you can customize/extend the plugin as you like using the WordPress hooks system easily.</p>
<p>Similarly, the front-end gallery layouts added by our plugin can be customized by developing or overriding our existing templates. Please <a href="https://plugins360.com/all-in-one-video-gallery/child-themes-and-templates/" rel="nofollow ugc">check for a detailed documentation</a> on this.</p>
<h3>[+] PREMIUM FEATURES</h3>
<ul>
<li>Gallery Templates: <a href="https://demo.plugins360.com/popup/" rel="nofollow ugc">Popup</a>, <a href="https://demo.plugins360.com/inline/" rel="nofollow ugc">Inline</a>, <a href="https://demo.plugins360.com/slider/" rel="nofollow ugc">Slider</a>, <a href="https://demo.plugins360.com/playlist/" rel="nofollow ugc">Playlist</a>, <a href="https://demo.plugins360.com/compact/" rel="nofollow ugc">Compact (Modern)</a></li>
<li>Auto import videos from YouTube & Vimeo websites.</li>
<li>Video SEO: Schema.org Markup (via JSON-LD)</li>
<li>Auto Thumbnail Generator</li>
<li>Custom Logo & Branding</li>
<li>Custom Context Menu</li>
<li>Front-end User Submission</li>
<li>User Playlists / Favorites</li>
<li>VAST / VPAID Ads</li>
</ul>
<h3>TRANSLATION READY</h3>
<p>Do you speak another language? Want to contribute in a meaningful way to All-in-One Video Gallery? There’s no better way than to help us translate the plugin. This plugin is translation ready and you can <a href="https://plugins360.com/all-in-one-video-gallery/translate-to-your-language/" rel="nofollow ugc">translate</a> to your language easily. Once finished, please reach out to us <a href="https://plugins360.com/support/" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a> to get your language file included in the core.</p>
<p>Spanish translation partner – <a href="https://www.blarlo.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Blarlo</a></p>
<h3>LATEST ADDITION</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Trailers & Teasers!</strong> Display a <strong>trailer clip to non-access users</strong> instead of the locked screen — great for driving upgrades or sign-ups.</li>
<li><strong>Email & Lead Capture!</strong> Show an <strong>email collection form over your video</strong> to capture leads before, during, or after playback.</li>
</ul>
<h3>SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION</h3>
<p>We do have <a href="https://plugins360.com/all-in-one-video-gallery/documentation/" rel="nofollow ugc">documentation</a> on the plugin.</p>
<p>Still, Having Issues? We are just an email away. Please write to us describing your issue using the “Contact” form available under our plugin’s menu. You should receive a reply within 24 hours (except Sunday).</p>
<p>Also, we answer all support requests <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/all-in-one-video-gallery/" rel="ugc">on the WordPress.org support forum</a>.</p>


All-in-One Video Gallery

Video gallery plugin for WordPress with a built-in HTML5 player. Embed YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Rumble, and self-hosted videos.

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