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Total downloads: 11,823

Active installs: 100

Total reviews: 7

Average rating: 3.3

Support threads opened: 0

Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)

Available in: 1 language(s)

Contributors: 2

Last updated: 10/15/2024 (442 days ago)

Added to WordPress: 2/4/2014 (11 years old)

Minimum WordPress version: 5.6

Tested up to WordPress version: 6.6.4

Minimum PHP version: 8.1

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Possibly abandoned • Last updated 442 days ago • 7 reviews

28/100

Is Video Lightbox for YouTube/Vimeo abandoned?

Possibly abandoned (last update 442 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 5.6

Tested up to: 6.6.4

Requires PHP: 8.1

Ratings

3 See all reviews

Developers

Milind More (Owner)1 Milind More5

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Description

Easy YouTube & Vimeo popups! Click thumbnails to watch videos in a sleek lightbox. Works with shortcodes in posts, pages & widgets.

The plugin now has support for the official AMP plugin.

    [youtube videoid="" height="" width=""]
    [youtube url=""]

in the backend you can generate shortcodes also you can set default height, width, and an option to play video automatically.

Now Supports Vimeo

    [vimeo videoid="" height="" width=""]
    [vimeo url=""]

Installation

Upload youtubefancybox folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Place shortcode like[youtube videoid="<videoid goes here>"] in your page, post, text widget

Frequently Asked Questions

I have installed the plugin but nothing happens?

You need to add shortcode to your page, post, or your text widget

Does this plugin has backend

Yes, It does it’s in the plugin submenu named “YTubeFancyBox”.

I need to set default height and width

You can set the default height and width on the admin side

I don’t want to play video after lightbox opens

You can set the default autoplay option at the backend

I need to set different height and width for each Youtube thumbnail

You can set height and width for each image thumbnail in shorcode [youtube videoid="<videoid>" height="<height>" width="<width>"]

Where can I get youtube video id

You can find youtube video id at the backend by inserting youtube video URL

Can I use youtube video URL instead of video id

Yes, you can add [youtube url="<youtube video URL here>"]

Review feed

RealMag777

9/3/2016

Good and Useful plugin!

Thank you ;)

Screenshots

Backend of Plugin
add the shortcode on a page
Thumbnails generated from youtube video
Youtube Video in Lightbox

Changelog

2.7.1

Version update

2.7.0

Fix : Fixed error where the vimeo data was not reetrieved.
Updated Tested tag to 6.6.2

2.6.2

Fix: short code Generator.
Updated Tested Tag to 5.8

2.6.1

Renamed plugin and updated logo to avoid copyright violations.

2.6

Added Official AMP Plugin Support.
Tested up to 5.6

2.5

Tested up to 5.4.2

2.4

Fixes warning.

2.3

Fixed issue with directly redirecting to video.
Added Extended version of colorboxjs

2.2

Added muted autoplay for Chrome and Safari.
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-policy-changes

2.1

Fixes Widget text minor issue.

2.0

Updated colorboxjs

Now supports Vimeo.

1.6

Updated colorboxjs

Updated for WordPress 4.0

Now supports SSL (HTTPS)

Improved look and feel

Updated text domain to be the same as a slug

Updated code to make plugin translation ready, the latest version of colorboxjs updated.

Fixed shortcode inside shortcode bug with return output

Updated for WordPress 4.1

Fixed iPhone iPad bugs

1.0

First release. Compatible with IE9,IE10, Chrome, Firefox

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