jschuller

<p>Easily embed video within your posts. Adds a widget to the posting screen that enables you to post videos by simply providing the URL to the video hosted on common video sharing websites.</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<ol>
<li>Within the WordPress Administration Control Panel, expand the Posts tab and then select Add New.</li>
<li>Create a title for your post and add a description within the post field.</li>
<li>Paste the URL to the video you wish to embed within the Video URL field.</li>
<li>Enter the Width and Height parameters for your video within the fields provided (optional).</li>
<li>Click Update Post to save your options.</li>
<li>Once the page reloads, a full preview of your embedded video should be displayed.</li>
</ol>


Simple Video Embedder

Adds a widget to the posting screen that makes posting videos a cinch.

yehudah

<p>Video Thumbnails makes it easy to automatically display video thumbnails in your template. When you publish a post, this plugin will find the first video embedded and retrieve a thumbnail for you. Thumbnails can be saved to your media library and set as a featured image automatically. There’s even support for custom post types and custom fields!</p>
<p>Video Thumbnails Reloaded is based on Video Thumbnails developed by Sutherland Boswell<br />
(https://wordpress.org/plugins/video-thumbnails/)</p>
<h4>Supported Sites</h4>
<ul>
<li>YouTube</li>
<li>Vimeo</li>
<li>Facebook</li>
<li>Vine</li>
<li>Twitch</li>
<li>Dailymotion</li>
<li>Metacafe</li>
<li>TED</li>
<li>VK</li>
<li>Blip</li>
<li>Google Drive</li>
<li>Funny or Die</li>
<li>CollegeHumor</li>
<li>MPORA</li>
<li>Livestream</li>
<li>Yahoo Screen</li>
<li>Wistia</li>
<li>Youku</li>
<li>Tudou</li>
<li>SAPO</li>
<li>Rutube</li>
</ul>
<h3>Known Issues</h3>
<ul>
<li>In some cases you may have to manually search for thumbnails on the post editor</li>
</ul>


Video Thumbnails Reloaded

Video Thumbnails simplifies the process of automatically displaying video thumbnails in your WordPress template.

Simple Video Embedder vs Video Thumbnails Reloaded