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.

<p>Browse and insert your or someone else tracks, playlists and favourites to your posts using SoundCloud’s official player. The live preview makes it easy to see how customising your player will fit perfectly with your website’s design.</p>
<p>It’s smart, secure and just works.</p>
<p>You can set a default style for all players but if needed, you will be able to tweak the styling for one particular player. Soundcloud is Gold is currently helping 10,000 music lovers getting their work out there!</p>
<p> </p>
<blockquote>
<p>All you need from a Soundcloud Plugin – Easy to install and to set up, good looking in both widget and full-width style.<br />
  ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ – @goamazinghostel – <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/all-you-need-from-a-soundcloud-plugin/" rel="ugc">read full review</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p> </p>
<blockquote>
<p>Works Perfectly. This plugin made adding Soundcloud a trivial effort.<br />
  ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ – @fssbob – <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-perfectly-1037/" rel="ugc">read full review</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p> </p>
<h3>Top Features</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Browse</strong> through your or someone lese soundcloud tracks, sets and favourites from a tab in the media upload window, no need to go back and forth between Soundcloud and your website.</li>
<li><strong>Save multiple users</strong>, very useful for labels, collectives or artists with many projects</li>
<li><strong>Live Preview</strong> let you see what does what instantly.</li>
<li><strong>Integrates perfectly</strong> with wordpress media upload by using the same listing style that you get with the images.</li>
<li><strong>Plugin construct the shortode for you</strong>, no need to remember any crasy syntax (but you can still use the shortcode manually if needed).</li>
<li><strong>Widget</strong> for showing the latest or random tracks, favourites or sets for one user, multiple users or random users.</li>
<li><strong>Track’s info</strong> displayed directly in the tab (description, url, cover, etc…).</li>
<li>Default settings from the option page (see screenshot):
<ul>
<li>Default player type (Standard, Artwork, Visual)</li>
<li>Width</li>
<li>Extra Classes for the div that wraps around the player</li>
<li>Auto Play</li>
<li>Show/Hide Comments</li>
<li>Player’s Colours</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Styled sortcode in editor for neat layout.</li>
<li>Implement Soundcloud Html5 player.</li>
<li>Follow WP developpers guidelines (enqueue scripts and styles just for the plugin, clean code, commented, secure and leave no trace when uninstall ).</li>
<li>https support</li>
</ul>
<h4>Advantages against pasting embed code from soundcloud and other plugins</h4>
<ul>
<li>By changing the main settings in the options, all players on your site using the default settings will change. If green isn’t trendy anymore and purple is the new orange, it won’t be a problem and you will keep your street credibility.</li>
<li>If Soundcloud update their player or release an even cooler new player that let you scratch your track while streaming to snapchat, I will most defenetly update the plugin to use those new features.</li>
<li><strong>Soundcloud is Gold</strong> use a shortcode but the “Soundcloud is Gold” tab will write it for you dynamically as you select parameters, and on top of this it will provide a nice live preview of your player so you know what does what. When done just press the ‘insert soundcloud player’ and it will added to your post just like when you’re adding a photo or gallery.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Keep it alive!</h3>
<p>If you love it please rate it! If you use it and want to help, <a href="http://www.mightymess.com/soundcloud-is-gold-wordpress-plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">donations are always welcomed</a> or you could like, tweet or spread the love on your blog 😉</p>
<p>Latest developments updates on twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/%23soundcloudisgold" rel="nofollow ugc">#soundcloudisgold</a> or follow me on <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/mighty_mess" rel="nofollow ugc">twitter</a></p>
<h3>RoadMap</h3>
<h4>Priority</h4>
<ul>
<li>Contextual On-boarding to help new users getting to know the plugin</li>
<li>Use your own API key (which mean you’re not dependent of the rate_limit attached to my key )</li>
<li>Advance Settings (change background color and comments color, playcounts, buy link, font, wmode, etc, show/hide styled shortcode, number of tracks per page)</li>
<li>Other soundcloud shortcode conflict fix (jetpack)</li>
<li>Update to the way Settings are handled to be even more inline with WordPress settings API.</li>
<li>Live search while typing a name in the user name field. So if you’re looking for someone it’s kind of easier.</li>
<li>Better UX for the editor: clicking to edit should know if which user and if it’s a track/playlist/favourite</li>
<li>Better UX for the editor: Better visual to actually know what the track is just by looking at it.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Secondary</h4>
<ul>
<li>Seperate playlists into playlist types (ep, album, etc…)</li>
<li>Url attribute for shortcode: easier for people using the shortcode manually.</li>
<li>Trigger live preview when changing Soundcloud user name</li>
<li>Add ‘activities’ to the widget</li>
</ul>


SoundCloud Is Gold

Browse and insert Soundcloud tracks, playlists and favourites to your posts. Live preview and customise your player to fit your website's design.

Velocity – Video Lazy Loading for YouTube, Twitch and Vimeo vs SoundCloud Is Gold