Franklin Gitonga

radiumthemes

<p>Video Central allows you to import and present videos on your website from various sources such as Youtube, Vimeo or upload and host your own videos.</p>
<p>This plugin uses the code structure and philosophy found in popular plugins such as bbPress and BuddyPress making it very customizable, extendable and allowing the plugin to integrate well with any WordPress installation. The plugin gives you the ability to create a layout or theme easily.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Bulk Video import from Vimeo and Youtube. You can import a single video, an entire user account, search results and/or playlists.</li>
<li>Host your own videos</li>
<li>Custom video player that is mobile friendly and works across different browsers</li>
<li>Templating engine for easy customization</li>
<li>Video Categories</li>
<li>Video tags</li>
<li>Video Descriptions</li>
<li>Custom views for latest, featured and popular videos</li>
<li>Ability to like videos</li>
<li>Comment on videos</li>
<li>Integration with the WordPress editor</li>
<li>A host of shortcodes are provided for placing videos anywhere on the site.</li>
<li>Custom page templates included</li>
</ul>
<h4>Live Demo</h4>
<p><a href="http://demo.videocentral.co" rel="nofollow ugc">http://demo.videocentral.co</a>.</p>
<h4>Contact</h4>
<p>For more info, check me out on twitter and follow <a href="http://twitter.com/frankGM1" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter</a> .</p>
<h4>Developers</h4>
<p>Github Link <a href="https://github.com/FrankM1/video-central" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/FrankM1/video-central</a></p>
<h4>Officially Supported Themes</h4>
<p><a href="http://themes.radiumthemes.com/wp/newscore" rel="nofollow ugc">Newscore</a><br />
<a href="http://themes.radiumthemes.com/wp/newsfront" rel="nofollow ugc">Newsfront</a><br />
<a href="http://juniper.radiumthemes.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Juniper</a></p>


Video Central for WordPress

I like how the plugin handles videos.  Legit!



Pretty good

Video Central is the ultimate video manager for WordPress.

kevinweber

<p>This plugin improves page load time and increases your Google PageSpeed Score. It works with oEmbed and replaces embedded Youtube and Vimeo videos with a clickable preview image.<br />
By loading videos only when the user clicks on the preview image, no unnecessary JavaScript is loaded. Especially on sites with many embedded videos this will make your visitors happy. Additionally, all Youtube videos are loaded in a privacy-enhanced mode using the “https://www.youtube-nocookie.com” embed URL.</p>
<p>This plugin works for your existing YouTube and Vimeo blocks. No vendor lock-in and no custom shortcodes: Easily turn the plugin on and off anytime.</p>
<p>Plugin review with speed test results <a href="https://wptavern.com/speed-up-wordpress-with-lazy-load-for-videos" rel="nofollow ugc">on WP Tavern</a>.<br />
Developers can contribute <a href="https://github.com/kevinweber/lazy-load-for-videos" rel="nofollow ugc">on Github</a>.<br />
More about the author: <a href="https://www.kweber.com" rel="nofollow ugc">on kweber.com</a>.</p>
<h4>Some additional features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Display video titles on preview images</li>
<li>Display privacy disclaimer on top of preview images (e.g. for GDPR compliance)</li>
<li>Pre-roll and post-roll advertisements: Convert all videos into a playlist and automatically add your corporate video, product teaser or another video advertisement to every video. (Great for branding and video ads!)</li>
<li>Hide annotations such as “subscribe to channel” to avoid distractions</li>
<li>Add custom CSS via the plugin’s admin panel</li>
<li>Choose custom colour for your Vimeo player</li>
<li>Hide controls from Youtube player</li>
<li>Hide information like the video title and uploader when the video starts playing</li>
<li>Even lazy load videos in text widgets (Youtube only)</li>
<li>Choose between thumbnail sizes (standard or cover)</li>
<li>Choose from several play button styles</li>
<li>Choose the traditional red or the alternative white progress bar for the Youtube video player</li>
<li>Don’t show related videos at the end of your videos</li>
<li>Works with WordPress Multisite and many plugins such as TablePress</li>
</ul>
<h4>Future features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Set a custom preview image per video</li>
<li>Track how often the videos have been loaded with Google Analytics</li>
<li>… YOU want a new feature RIGHT NOW? Please implement it yourself and <a href="https://github.com/kevinweber/lazy-load-for-videos" rel="nofollow ugc">contribute on Github</a>, and I’ll publish your enhancements to the official WordPress directory.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Translators</h4>
<ul>
<li>Serbian (sr_RS) – <a href="//firstsiteguide.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Ogi Djuraskovic</a></li>
<li>Spanish (es_ES) – <a href="http://po5i.github.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">Carlos Villavicencio</a></li>
</ul>
<p>If you have created your own language pack, or have an update of an existing one, you can <a href="https://www.kweber.com/contact/" rel="nofollow ugc">send me</a> your gettext PO and MO so that I can bundle it into my plugin. You can download the latest POT file <a href="https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/lazy-load-for-videos/trunk/languages/lazy-load-for-videos.pot" rel="nofollow ugc">from here</a>.</p>


Lazy Load for Videos

We have pages with multiple videos and that slowed down the page load and increased network traffic. This plugin improved it a lot. Reduced blocking of some pages with seconds and reduced the page load from 3MB to 1,3MB.



Works great


I noticed Squarespace has a much slicker way of loading and showing embedded videos, and I wanted it.   This plugin works perfectly to provide it so that my video portfolio page loads faster and looks better.  Thanks to the developer!


Simple solution for making video pages fast like Squarespace

Boost page speed by replacing embedded YouTube and Vimeo videos with a clickable preview image. Video scripts only load on click.

Video Central for WordPress vs Lazy Load for Videos