Easy YouTube Gallery

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Quick and easy make a gallery for a custom set of YouTube videos provided in the shortcode and autoplay video on click in the Magnific PopUp lightbox.

FAQ

Features

  • Custom set of ID’s provided as shortcode attribute id (single of multiple ID’s separated by comma)
  • Custom additional class for targeted styling (if you need to blend gallery in your theme)
  • Custom number of columns to distribute thumbnails to (min 1, max 8)
  • Responsive thumbnails
  • Autoplay with Magnific PopUp lightbox
  • Well marked with classes

Classes

  • Main container:
    • .easy_youtube_gallery
    • .col-# for number of columns (default is 1, supported up to 8)
    • .ar-16_9 for 16:9, .ar-4_3 for 4:3 or .ar-square for 1:1 aspect ratio
    • custom class provided by shortcode attribute class
  • Anchor:
    • .eytg-item
    • .eytg-item-# for order number of item
    • .eytg-item-first for first item in gallery block
    • .eytg-item-mid for middle items in gallery block
    • .eytg-item-last for last item in gallery block
  • Thumbnail:
    • .eytg-thumbnail is class for span where we set video thumbnail as background image
  • Play icon
    • .eytg-thumbnail:before is pseudoclass for play icon

Download

ChangeLog you can find here. For download visit official WordPress.org page here http://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-youtube-gallery/ or get package below (latest or some of older versions if you like):

Installation

  1. Login to your WordPress.
  2. Go to Plugins -> Add New.
  3. Type to Search Plugins field keyword Easy YouTube Gallery and press Enter on your keyboard.
  4. Click Install Now button.
  5. When plugin is successfully installed, clik link Activate Plugin
  6. Insert shortcode (replace YT_VIDEO_ID with your set of YouTube video ID’s)

How to Use?

Please note! If you doing copy&paste from code above, before you paste content to page, post or text widget content, clear all formatting by paste&copy to/from Notepad or other plain text editor!

View Live Demo Here

Shortcode parameters

  • id (required) single YouTube video ID or multiple ID’s separated with comma
  • ar (optional) aspect ratio of thumbnails; default is ar-16_9 for 16:9, but also supported ar-4_3 for 4:3 and ar-square for 1:1
  • cols (optional) for number of columns to distribute thumbnails in; devault is 1, supported up to 8
  • thumbnail (optional) for YouTube size of thumbnail; default is hqdefault but we can use:
    • 0 have resolution 480x360px
    • 1, 2 and 3 have resolution 120x90px (first, second or third frame)
    • default have resolution 120x90px (Default Quality)
    • mqdefault have resolution 320x180px (Medium Quality)
    • hqdefault have resolution 480x360px (High Quality)
    • sddefault have resolution 640x480px (Standard Definition) and does not exists for lowres videos
    • maxresdefault have resolution 1920x1080px (Full HD) and does not exists for lowres videos
  • controls (optional) to optionally hide playback controls in lightbox player (default is 1 that means “display controls”, but you can set it to 0 to hide controls)
  • playsinline controls whether videos play inline or fullscreen in an HTML5 player on iOS. Learn more on Google Developers
  • privacy (optional) enables enhanced privacy which means that YouTube won’t store information about visitors on your web page unless they play the video.
  • class (optional) to add custom style class if you wish to target specific styling for your own needs

Preview

Easy YouTube Gallery preview
Easy YouTube Gallery preview

FAQ

Do I need to wrap shortcode parameters to doublequotes or singlequotes?

No. I even suggest to you avoid wrapping shortcode parameters to double/single quotes to prevent broken output when some plugins modify content with nasty filters.

Just avoid empty space between ID’s.

Support

If you need help, first try to read documentation and then check community support forum.

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