Darren Cooney

Velocity is an alternative loading method to the standard to YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch and Soundcloud iframe embeds.
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.
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.
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<h4>Shortcode Parameters</h4>
<ul>
<li>type – Choose a media type [youtube, vimeo, twitch, soundcloud].</li>
<li>id – The ID of the media item.</li>
<li>options – Add optional styling and display parameters for the embedded media – e.g. rel=0&controls=0&showinfo=0.</li>
<li>playlist – Is this a Soundcloud playlist [true/false].</li>
<li>img – The path to the preview image.</li>
<li>alt – The alternative text to be attached to the preview image.</li>
<li>color – Play button arrow color.</li>
<li>bkg_color – 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>
https://connekthq.com/plugins/velocity/

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.

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This plugin converts all SoundCloud shortcodes into embeddable SoundCloud players. It works for any SoundCloud track, playlist, user, or group. Once you install this plugin, it will work for any of your WordPress posts & pages. I mean, sure you could use oEmbed or the snappy new Gutenberg editor to simply paste in a SoundCloud URL; but we like to keep things old-school 😎
A simple example:
<pre><code>[soundcloud]http://soundcloud.com/forss/flickermood[/soundcloud]
</code></pre>
More Options
SoundCloud Shortcodes support these optional parameters:
<ul>
<li><code>width</code></li>
<li><code>height</code></li>
<li><code>params</code></li>
</ul>
The <code>params</code> parameter passes additional options to the SoundCloud embeddable player. You can find a full list on the SoundCloud Developers pages: https://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/html5-widget
An example of a track that starts playing automatically, with hot-pink controls:
<pre><code>[soundcloud params="auto_play=true&color=#F368E0"]http://soundcloud.com/forss/flickermood[/soundcloud]
</code></pre>

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