Jeet Saha

<p>WPlyr is an easy-to-use Gutenberg block which implements <a href="https://plyr.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plyr</a> – A simple, lightweight and accessible HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo media player that supports modern browsers.</p>
<h3>Demo</h3>
<p>Visit the <a href="https://wplyr.wecodify.co/" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin demo</a> to see it in action.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<p><strong>Multi Formats</strong><br />
Support for the major formats, HTML Video & Audio, YouTube & Vimeo. HTML5 Video supports MP4, WebM and OGV formats and HTML5 Audio supports MP3, OGG and WAV formats.</p>
<p><strong>Video Resolution</strong><br />
The HTML5 video player supports multiple resolution source selection and playback. Viewers can set the playback resolution on the fly from the player’s settings interface.</p>
<p><strong>Easy Interface</strong><br />
The plugin combines all the features into a single Gutenberg block allowing you to change the source and output with just a couple of clicks.</p>
<p><strong>Closed Captions</strong><br />
Full support for VTT captions and multiple caption tracks. Multi-lingual caption track is automatically selected from the viewer device’s default language.</p>
<p><strong>Controls</strong><br />
10+ controls for the media player can be configured from the plugin’s setting interface. By default, the player includes controls for speed, fast-forward/skip, volume, captions, duration, video resolution selection, picture-in-picture feature, fullscreen, airplay and download.</p>
<p><strong>Customization</strong><br />
You can modify the player color from the plugin’s setting interface to match your website’s color scheme.</p>
<p><strong>Clean HTML5</strong><br />
Uses the correct semantic elements. <code><input type="range"></code> for volume and <code><progress></code> for progress and well, <code><button></code>s for buttons. There’s no <code><span></code> or <code><a href="#"></code> button hacks.</p>
<p><strong>Responsive</strong><br />
Adapts to every and all resolutions and modern devices.</p>
<h3>Browser Support</h3>
<p>Safari ✓<br />
Mobile Safari ✓¹<br />
Firefox ✓<br />
Chrome ✓<br />
Opera ✓<br />
Edge ✓<br />
IE11 ✓²</p>
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<li>Volume controls are also disabled as they are handled device wide.</li>
<li>Support extended via the use of polyfills.</li>
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WPlyr Media Block

WPlyr is an easy-to-use Gutenberg block which implements Plyr - A simple, lightweight and accessible HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo media player that suppor …

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.

WPlyr Media Block vs Lazy Load for Videos