Jose Varghese

Subscribe Button Bar for YouTube Embed Videos is a robust WordPress plugin designed to seamlessly integrate YouTube subscription functionality into your website. It automatically detects YouTube videos within your content and strategically places a customizable YouTube subscribe button bar directly beneath them.
This plugin serves as an effective video marketing tool, creating a sleek, non-intrusive call to action that encourages viewers to subscribe to your channel immediately. Whether you aim to increase YouTube subscribers, improve viewer engagement, or ensure a consistent user experience with a fully responsive design, Subscribe Button Bar provides the professional features necessary for channel growth.
Key Features:
<ul>
<li>Intelligent Auto-Detection: Automatically identifies YouTube iframes within your posts and pages and injects the subscribe bar — no manual setup per post needed.</li>
<li>Shortcode Support: Place the subscribe bar anywhere — pages without videos, sidebars, landing pages — using a simple shortcode.</li>
<li>Gutenberg Block: A native block editor block lets you drop the subscribe bar exactly where you want it in the visual editor.</li>
<li>Flexible Channel Input: Enter your Channel ID, @handle, or paste any YouTube channel URL — the plugin figures out the rest.</li>
<li>Fully Customizable: Tailor colors, text, theme, and layout to match your brand.</li>
<li>Responsive Design: Looks great on desktops, tablets, and mobile phones.</li>
<li>Performance Optimized: Lightweight with no jQuery dependency on the frontend.</li>
<li>MutationObserver Support: Catches YouTube videos added dynamically (AJAX pagination, lazy loading).</li>
</ul>
Customization Options:
<ol>
<li>Enable/Disable Toggle: Master switch to turn the subscribe bar on or off globally.</li>
<li>YouTube Channel: Enter your Channel ID, @handle, or any YouTube channel URL.</li>
<li>Theme Selection: Choose between Default (light) and Dark themes.</li>
<li>Subscriber Count: Show or hide the subscriber count on the button.</li>
<li>Layout Options: Default (icon + “Subscribe” text) or Full (channel avatar + channel name).</li>
<li>Custom Text: Add personalized text that appears before the button.</li>
<li>Background Color: Customize the bar’s background color.</li>
<li>Text Color: Customize the text color.</li>
<li>Post Type Control: Restrict the bar to specific post types (posts, pages, custom post types).</li>
<li>Per-Post Exclusion: Exclude specific posts or pages by ID.</li>
</ol>
Using the Shortcode
Place the subscribe bar anywhere on your site — pages without YouTube videos, sidebars, footers, or landing pages — using:
<pre><code>[subscribe_button_bar]
</code></pre>
This uses your global plugin settings. You can override any setting per-use with optional attributes:
<pre><code>[subscribe_button_bar channel="@yourchannel" text="Subscribe for weekly videos!" theme="dark" layout="full" count="hidden" bg_color="#1a1a1a" text_color="#ffffff"]
</code></pre>
Shortcode Attributes:
 Attribute 
 Values 
 Default 
 Description
 <code>url</code> 
 YouTube or Shorts video URL 
 (none) 
 Embed a YouTube video or Short and place the subscribe bar below it. Accepts <code>youtube.com/watch?v=</code>, <code>youtu.be/</code>, <code>youtube.com/shorts/</code>, or <code>youtube.com/embed/</code> URLs.
 <code>channel</code> 
 Channel ID, @handle, or URL 
 Global setting 
 Override the YouTube channel for this bar only.
 <code>text</code> 
 Any string 
 Global setting 
 Text displayed before the subscribe button.
 <code>theme</code> 
 <code>default</code>, <code>dark</code> 
 Global setting 
 Button color scheme.
 <code>layout</code> 
 <code>default</code>, <code>full</code> 
 Global setting 
 <code>default</code> shows the subscribe icon and text; <code>full</code> shows channel avatar and name.
 <code>count</code> 
 <code>true</code>, <code>hidden</code> 
 Global setting 
 Show or hide the subscriber count.
 <code>bg_color</code> 
 Hex color (e.g. <code>#ffffff</code>) 
 Global setting 
 Background color of the bar.
 <code>text_color</code> 
 Hex color (e.g. <code>#000000</code>) 
 Global setting 
 Text color of the bar.
Examples:
Minimal — uses all global settings: 
 [subscribe_button_bar]
Embed a video with a subscribe bar below it: 
 [subscribe_button_bar url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ”]
Embed a YouTube Short with a subscribe bar below it: 
 [subscribe_button_bar url=”https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VIDEO_ID”]
Embed a video and override the channel and text: 
 [subscribe_button_bar url=”https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ” channel=”@yourchannel” text=”Subscribe for more!”]
Bar only — custom channel with dark theme: 
 [subscribe_button_bar channel=”@yourchannel” theme=”dark” text=”Subscribe for weekly videos”]
Full layout, no subscriber count: 
 [subscribe_button_bar layout=”full” count=”hidden”]
Using the Gutenberg Block
In the block editor, search for “Subscribe Button Bar” in the block inserter (or type <code>/subscribe</code>). The block renders server-side so it always reflects your current settings.
The block sidebar includes:
<ul>
<li>Video URL — paste a YouTube video URL or Shorts URL (e.g. <code>youtube.com/watch?v=...</code> or <code>youtube.com/shorts/...</code>). The block will embed the video and place the subscribe bar directly below it. Leave empty to show only the subscribe bar.</li>
<li>Channel Override — enter a Channel ID, @handle, or YouTube channel URL to use a different channel on this specific page. Leave empty to use your global settings.</li>
<li>Custom Text Override — override the button label text for this block only. Leave empty to use your global custom text.</li>
</ul>
Entering Your YouTube Channel
The plugin accepts any of the following formats in the settings page and in the <code>channel</code> shortcode attribute:
<ul>
<li>Channel ID: <code>UCxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</code></li>
<li>@Handle: <code>@yourchannel</code></li>
<li>Channel URL: <code>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</code></li>
<li>Handle URL: <code>https://www.youtube.com/@yourchannel</code></li>
<li>Legacy user URL: <code>https://www.youtube.com/user/yourchannel</code></li>
<li>Custom URL: <code>https://www.youtube.com/c/yourchannel</code></li>
</ul>
The plugin parses the input automatically — no need to extract the channel ID manually.
Getting Started:
<ol>
<li>Install and activate the plugin via the WordPress dashboard.</li>
<li>Navigate to Settings > Subscribe Button Bar.</li>
<li>Enter your YouTube channel — paste your Channel ID, @handle, or any YouTube channel URL.</li>
<li>Configure your desired appearance settings and save.</li>
<li>Embed any YouTube video in a post/page and the subscribe bar will appear automatically. Or use <code>[subscribe_button_bar]</code> to place it anywhere.</li>
</ol>
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin uses the YouTube Subscribe Button API provided by Google’s Platform Library (<code>https://apis.google.com/js/platform.js</code>). This script is loaded on pages where the subscribe bar is displayed and may send the visitor’s IP address and user agent to Google.
Policies: <a href="https://policies.google.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Privacy Policy</a> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/t/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">YouTube Terms of Service</a>

Subscribe Button Bar for YouTube Embed Videos

A professional tool to add a YouTube subscribe button bar under your videos. Essential for channel growth and viewer conversion.

Danny van Kooten

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Harish Chouhan

Allowing your visitors to subscribe to your newsletter should be easy. With this plugin, it finally is.
This plugins helps you grow your email list in Mailchimp. You can use it to create good looking and accessible sign-up forms or integrate with any other existing form on your WordPress site, like your contact, comment or checkout form.
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<h4>Some (but not all) features</h4>
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Connect with your Mailchimp account in seconds.
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Sign-up forms which are good looking, user-friendly and mobile optimized. You have complete control over the form fields and can build your forms using native HTML.
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Seamless integration with the following plugins:
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<li>WordPress Comment Form</li>
<li>WordPress Registration Form</li>
<li>Contact Form 7</li>
<li>WooCommerce</li>
<li>Gravity Forms</li>
<li>Ninja Forms 3</li>
<li>WPForms</li>
<li>BuddyPress</li>
<li>MemberPress</li>
<li>Events Manager</li>
<li>Easy Digital Downloads</li>
<li>Give</li>
<li>UltimateMember</li>
<li>HTML Forms</li>
<li>AffiliateWP</li>
</ul>
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Is the plugin you want to integrate with not listed above? You can probably still use our <a href="https://www.mc4wp.com/kb/subscribe-mailchimp-custom-html-form/" rel="nofollow ugc">custom integration</a> feature. Alternatively, the plugin comes with a PHP API to programmatically add a new subscriber to Mailchimp.
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A multitude of available add-on plugins and integrations:
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<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailchimp-top-bar/" rel="ugc">Mailchimp Top Bar</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/boxzilla/" rel="ugc">Boxzilla Pop-ups</a></li>
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Well documented through our <a href="https://www.mc4wp.com/kb/" rel="nofollow ugc">knowledge base</a>.
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Developer friendly. For some inspiration, check out our <a href="https://github.com/ibericode/mailchimp-for-wordpress/tree/main/sample-code-snippets" rel="nofollow ugc">repository of example code snippets</a>.
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Ready for PHP 8.5, but backwards-compatible all the way down to PHP 7.4.
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</ul>
<h4>What is Mailchimp?</h4>
Mailchimp is a newsletter service that allows you to send out email campaigns to a list of email subscribers. It is free for lists with up to 500 email subscribers, which is why it is the newsletter-service of choice for thousands of small businesses across the globe.
If you are not yet using Mailchimp, <a href="http://eepurl.com/igOGeX" rel="nofollow ugc">creating an account is 100% free and only takes you about 30 seconds</a>.
<h4>Support</h4>
If you need some help in setting up the plugin, you have various options:
<ul>
<li>Search through our <a href="https://www.mc4wp.com/kb/#utm_source=wp-plugin-repo&utm_medium=mailchimp-for-wp&utm_campaign=description" rel="nofollow ugc">knowledge base</a>.</li>
<li>Open a topic in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/mailchimp-for-wp" rel="ugc">WordPress.org plugin support forums</a></li>
<li>If you’re a premium user, send an email to the email address listed inside the plugin.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Translations</h4>
You can <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/mailchimp-for-wp/stable/" rel="nofollow ugc">help translate this plugin into your language</a> using your WordPress.org account.
<h4>Development</h4>
This plugin is being developed on GitHub. If you want to collaborate, please look at <a href="https://github.com/ibericode/mailchimp-for-wordpress" rel="nofollow ugc">ibericode/mailchimp-for-wordpress</a>.
<h4>Customizing the plugin</h4>
The plugin provides various filter and action hooks that allow you to modify or extend the default behavior. We’re also maintaining a <a href="https://github.com/ibericode/mailchimp-for-wordpress/tree/main/sample-code-snippets" rel="nofollow ugc">collection of sample code snippets</a>.

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