Ryan Burnette

<p>There are a lot of plugins that allow users to embed videos using a shortcode.<br />
Now there’s one more out there.</p>
<p>Video Embeds currently supports YouTube and Vimeo.</p>
<p>Video Embeds allows for control over many of YouTube’s embed paramaters and<br />
all of Vimeo’s embed parameters. Set default values for all available options<br />
on the settings page.</p>
<p>Add FitVids.js to your site with the click of a button.</p>
<p>And a few other things too.</p>


Video Embeds

Just another plugin that creates shortcodes for embedding videos in posts.

Sutherland Boswell

<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><strong>Version 3.0</strong> is on the way soon!</p>
<h4>Video Thumbnails Pro</h4>
<p><a href="https://refactored.co/plugins/video-thumbnails" rel="nofollow ugc">Video Thumbnails Pro</a> adds new options like maximum image sizes, widescreen cropping, more powerful bulk scanning, a customizable upload directory, and more!</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>
<p>Video Thumbnails even works with most video plugins, including:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://refactored.co/plugins/video-importer" rel="nofollow ugc">Refactored Video Importer</a></li>
<li>Viper’s Video Quicktags</li>
</ul>
<h4>Help Translate</h4>
<p><a href="http://translate.refactored.co/blog/" rel="nofollow ugc">Register on our translation site</a> to help bring Video Thumbnails to more languages.</p>
<h4>Our Other Plugins</h4>
<p><a href="https://refactored.co/plugins/video-thumbnails" rel="nofollow ugc">Video Thumbnails Pro</a> | <a href="https://refactored.co/plugins/video-importer" rel="nofollow ugc">Video Importer</a> | <a href="http://retinamatic.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Retinamatic</a></p>
<h3>Known Issues</h3>
<ul>
<li>In some cases you may have to manually search for thumbnails on the post editor</li>
</ul>
<h3>Roadmap</h3>
<p>Version 3.0 is being finished up for release soon.</p>


Video Thumbnails

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

Video Embeds vs Video Thumbnails