Sourabh Agrawal

Measure Marketing Results Inc.

This plugin gives you the ability to optimize the YouTube videos on your website. By default if you use the direct embeded code in your website, then it downloads the YouTube player on every occurance of YouTube video.
This plugin show a video thumbnail to your viewer and loads the YouTube video only when user click on the play icon.
<h4>How does it work?</h4>
Untill the user click on the play button, the YouTube will not load on the website.
Short code Pattern: 
<pre><code>[ib_youtube video="<video_id>" image="<image_placeholder_link>" width="640" height="360" thumbnail="maxresdefault"]
</code></pre>
Example 1 – With Embed Link and Custom Banner: 
<pre><code>[ib_youtube video="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZfaqLBRP5Yo" image="http://example.com/image.jpg"]
</code></pre>
Example 2 – With a normal YouTube watch link and no banner(Thumbnail generated automatically): 
<pre><code>[ib_youtube video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfaqLBRP5Yo"]
</code></pre>
Example 3 – With customized width and height for your Video: 
<pre><code>[ib_youtube video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfaqLBRP5Yo" width="560" height="315"]
</code></pre>
<h4>Parameters</h4>
– video (Required): You can use either YouTube video id or directly add the url.
– image (Optional): Full URL of the thumbnail url. By default it shows the thumbnail of the video.
– width (Optional): Width of the image/video. Default value is 640px.
– height (Optional): Height of the image/video. Default value is 360px.
– thumbnail (Optional): Manage the thumbnail of the video image. you can follow the instruction below to choose the size:
Each YouTube video has generated 4 images. They are predictably formatted as follows:
<pre><code>[ib_youtube video="<video_id>" thumbnail="0" height="360"] 
[ib_youtube video="<video_id>" thumbnail="1" height="360"]
[ib_youtube video="<video_id>" thumbnail="2" height="360"]
[ib_youtube video="<video_id>" thumbnail="3" height="360"]
</code></pre>
You can also choose different sizes of the images:
<pre><code>Default Size: [ib_youtube video="<video_id>" thumbnail="default" height="360"]
SD quality: [ib_youtube video="<video_id>" thumbnail="sddefault" height="360"]
HD quality: [ib_youtube video="<video_id>" thumbnail="hqdefault" height="360"]
Medium quality: [ib_youtube video="<video_id>" thumbnail="mqdefault" height="360"]
Maximum resolution: [ib_youtube video="<video_id>" thumbnail="maxresdefault" height="360"]
</code></pre>
Contributors 
* This plugin was developed by <a href="https://measuremarketing.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">Measure Marketing Results Inc.</a>.

WP YouTube Video Optimizer

This is the #1 WordPress plugin that helps you to optimize the YouTube videos on your website by using simple shortcode.

Must Use Plugin for YouTube Videos

The #1 wordpress plugin that helps you optimize the YouTube videos on your site by using simple shortcode(s).

Stefano Lissa

Hyper Cache is a cache plugin specifically written to get the maximum speed for your WordPress blog.
It can be used in low resources hosting as well on high end servers.
Hyper Cache is purely PHP and works on every blog: no complex configurations are needed and when you deactivate it no stale settings are left around.
Short list of features:
<ul>
<li>HTTPS ready</li>
<li>Able to serve expired pages to bots to increase the perceived blog speed by bots</li>
<li>Manages compression even on the fly for non cached pages</li>
<li>Lots of configurable bypasses: matching cookies, matching urls, user agents, …</li>
<li>Comments aware: is able to serve cached pages even to visitors who commented the blog (perfect for blog with great readers paritipation)</li>
<li>Cache folder can be moved outside your blog space to exclude it from backups</li>
<li>Controls over cache cleaning on blog events (post edited, comments, …)</li>
<li>Autoclean to controls the cache used disk space</li>
<li>CDN support</li>
<li>Other special options</li>
<li>Response header signature to check the working status</li>
<li>bbPress specific integration</li>
</ul>
More can be read on the <a href="https://www.satollo.net/plugins/hyper-cache" rel="nofollow ugc">Hyper Cache official page</a>.
You can further optimize the blog installing <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/" rel="ugc">Autoptimize</a> which cleans up the HTML, minifies and concatenates CSS and JavaScript.
Other plugins by Stefano Lissa:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.thenewsletterplugin.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Newsletter</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.satollo.net/plugins/header-footer" rel="nofollow ugc">Header and Footer</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.satollo.net/plugins/include-me" rel="nofollow ugc">Include Me</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.satollo.net/plugins/thumbnails" rel="nofollow ugc">Thumbnails</a></li>
</ul>

Hyper Cache

Extremely easy to set up. KeyCdn support works and now I hope Stefano will come up with Preloaded Pages one day. 
I had bought Rocket Cache, Comet Cache Pro (f.. up my Multisite twice, they refuse to refund). 

 

Best Caching Plugin IHMO

Super fast, not overly complicated but with enough settings to customize for any set up. Most importantly: works like a charm on VPS!

THE caching plugin

Really well coded plugin, improved pagespeed for google from 86 to 93 compared to lightspeed cache. Simple and reliable.

Simply faster

Hyper Cache is a performant and easy to configure cache system for WordPress.

WP YouTube Video Optimizer vs Hyper Cache