mbergann

This plugin creates a video-gallery for youtube- or vimeo-videos or direct video-file-links by simply defining the gallery with shortcodes. 
The Videos will be opened in a lightbox.
By default the “<a href="https://photoswipe.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">PhotoSwipe</a>“-Lightbox of Dmitry Semenov is used. 
(at the moment it is the only one)
This plugin is really simple and clean designed to be easily extendable. 
* there is a “src/VideoProvider”-directory where every Video-Platform (like youtube or vimeo) is defined in an own php-class implementing a class-interface. 
* there is a “src/Lightbox”-directory where every lightbox is defined in an own php-class, implementing a class-interface 
* there is a “src/Shortcodes”-directory where the “[video-gallery]”-Shortcode is defined – that is where the magic happenes – but there is no need to edit this file.
<h4>Parameters and video-provider-specific specials</h4>
All parameters – general parameters and also video-provider-specific parameters are set directly in the [[video-gallery]]-Shortcode.
<h4>general</h4>
 parameter 
 description 
 default
 lightbox 
 name of the lightbox-class that should be used 
 PhotoSwipe
<h4>Youtube</h4>
 parameter 
 description 
 default
 yt_nocookie 
 use youtube-nocookie.com instead of youtube.com in video-links to be GDPR(DSGVO)-save 
 true
<h4>Vimeo</h4>
In vimeo the preview-image-URL doesn’t use the video-ID – so you need to make an API-request to get the image-URL. 
In this API-call we also get the original title of the video. 
For this reason we need the php CURL extension. 
The thumbnail will be taken from the API-response. 
When no manual video-title is defined, the video-provider-class uses also the original video-title from API-response automaticly.
<h3>Extending the Plugin</h3>
You can easily extend the Plugin by writing your own classes for Video-Platforms or other Lightboxes – you just have to implement the Interfaces.

Video-Link-Gallery

Video-Gallery defined by shortcodes for youtube, vimeo and direct links, opening videos in a lightbox (default-lightbox: "PhotoSwipe")

zitscher

Simple Photoswipe extends WordPress’ built in gallery functionality and uses Dmitry Semenov’s awesome <a href="http://photoswipe.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Photoswipe</a> gallery library.
You can customize some of Photoswipes options at Settings > Simple Photoswipe.
Important Note: In order to use Photoswipe zoom effect correclty you need to disable thumbnail cropping! 
By default your images will be cropped to proportional 150×150 thumbnails. I would reccomend to set a bigger thumbnail size (as shown in screenshot 4) and re-upload your images. In case you don’t want to re-upload your images I would recommend another plugin to automatically recrop your uploaded images.
Demo
You can see a <a href="http://tobiascichon.com/mnml/simple-photoswipe/" rel="nofollow ugc">live demo here</a>

Simple Photoswipe

Simple PhotoSwipe uses the built in gallery features of WordPress but gets extended by using PhotoSwipe from Dmitry Semenov.

Video-Link-Gallery vs Simple Photoswipe