WP Video Popup – WordPress Video Lightbox for YouTube & Vimeo Plugin
The best WordPress video lightbox plugin!
The best WordPress video lightbox plugin!
WP Video Popup lets you add a responsive YouTube or Vimeo video lightbox to any page, post or custom post type of your website.
Add beautiful, minimalistic video lightbox popups to your WordPress website with just a few clicks & without sacrificing performance.
Use the shortcode
[wp-video-popup video="link-to-your-youtube-or-vimeo-video"] in your post, page, custom post type or template file to add a responsive YouTube or Vimeo video lightbox to your WordPress website.
To open the lightbox, simply add the CSS-class
wp-video-popup to the element you wish to open/trigger the lightbox.
GDPR compliance
WP Video Popup is 100% GDPR compliant. No connection to YouTube or Vimeo is established before the trigger element has been clicked.
Page speed & performance
Embedding YouTube or Vimeo videos can slow down your website. With WP Video Lightbox the video is only being loaded by the click on the trigger element for the maximum performance & fast loading speeds.
Fully responsive
The WordPress video lightbox is fully responsive and adjusts to the device width & height the video is viewed on.
Usage
Example shortcode to display a YouTube video lightbox:
[wp-video-popup video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlUKcNNmywk"] Example shortcode to display a Vimeo video lightbox:
[wp-video-popup video="https://vimeo.com/136696258"] CSS-class that needs to be added to the element you want to open/trigger the video lightbox:
wp-video-popup Trigger element example (link):
<a href="#" class="wp-video-popup">Play Video</a> Shortcode attributes
There are attributes available to add parameters to the embed-URL that’s dynamically generated from the video link provided in the shortcode.
Mute video:
mute="1" Hide related YouTube videos:
Since September 2018, hiding related videos is no longer possible. Instead videos from your channel will be shown.
hide-related="1" Start video at a specific time (value in seconds):
start="24" Portrait mode (Vimeo only):
portrait="1" Example shortcode with shortcode attributes:
[wp-video-popup mute="1" start="24" video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlUKcNNmywk"] Advanced
In addition to the shortcode attributes, there is a filter available that allows you to add more parameters to the embed-URL. By default, only the autoplay attribute is added to the embed-URL.
In the example below, we use the filter to remove the YouTube branding from the video by adding the modestbranding parameter:
function prefix_your_custom_embed_url_attributes( $video_url ) { $video_url .= '&modestbranding=1'; return $video_url; } add_filter( 'wp_video_popup', 'prefix_your_custom_embed_url_attributes' ); WP Video Popup PRO
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PRO Features:
- Multiple popups on a single page/post
- Self-hosted videos
- Video galleries
- Autoplay on page load
- Adjustable popup size
- Overlay background color setting
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What’s next?
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Installation
- Download the responsive-youtube-vimeo-popup.zip file to your computer.
- Unzip the file.
- Upload the
responsive-youtube-vimeo-popupfolder to your/wp-content/plugins/directory. - Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress.
Screenshots
Live example
Desktop example
Mobile example
FAQ
WP Video Popup doesn’t create an admin settings page. To trigger and display the lightbox popup, please follow the steps under Description.
We add the autoplay attribute to the embed-URL by default. That being said, the video should play automatically after the trigger element has been clicked. Some browsers have changed their autoplay policy and videos only start playing if they’re muted.
To mute the video, add the mute="1" attribute to the shortcode like this:
[wp-video-popup mute="1" video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlUKcNNmywk"] Private vimeo videos add an extra string to the URL like this: https://vimeo.com/xxxx/yyyy.
When adding the URL to the shortcode, try to remove the last string so that your shortcode would look something like this: [wp-video-popup video="https://vimeo.com/xxxx"].
Changelog
2.9.7 May 10, 2024
- Tested up to WordPress 6.5
2.9.6 December 01, 2023
- Tested up to WordPress 6.4
2.9.5 April 17, 2023
- Tested up to WordPress 6.2
- Minor tweaks & improvements
2.9.4 November 11, 2022
- Tested up to WordPress 6.1
- Removed deprecated webkitallowfullscreen & mozallowfullscreen
2.9.3 July 01, 2022
- Tested up to WordPress 6.0
2.9.2 March 02, 2022
- Tested up to WordPress 5.9
- Updated plugin description
2.9.1 March 15, 2021
- Slight improvements to the settings page design
- Tested up to WordPress 5.7
2.9 February 23, 2021
- Refactored settings page design
2.8.1 December 04, 2020
- WordPress 5.6 compatibility
- Minor tweaks & improvements
2.8 June 17, 2020
- Maintenance release
2.7 October 15, 2019
- New: Added support for portrait videos (Vimeo). To declare a vertical Vimeo video, simply add the
portrait="1"parameter to your shortcode.
2.6 September 26, 2019
- Code improvements
2.5.1 September 16, 2019
- Fixed: Safari full-screen mode doesn’t work
2.5 August 27, 2019
- New: youtube-nocookie.com support
- Deprecated: vimeo=”1″ parameter to declare a Vimeo video. No longer required. We now check that for you in the background.
- Tweak: Improved backwards compatibility
- Overall code improvements
2.4 April 8, 2019
- Tweak: Added allow=”autoplay” parameter to iframe to allow autoplay in Chrome (thanks @owenmack)
- Fixed: A bug where URL parameters weren’t added properly using shortcode attributes
- Fixed: Vimeo video was not muted with mute=”1″
- Deprecated: hide-related shortcode attribute
2.3 December 12, 2018
- New: Shortcode attributes to add URL parameters (mute, hide-related, start)
- Tweak: Updated PAnD to the latest version
- Tested up to WordPress 5.0
2.2 September 23, 2018
- New: Filter to add attributes to the embed-URL
2.1 September 4, 2018
- New: Minor tweaks & improvements
2.0 August 25, 2018
- New: Shortcode has changed to [wp-video-popup video=”link-to-your-video”] for YouTube videos and [wp-video-popup vimeo=”1″ video=”link-to-your-video”] for vimeo videos
- New: Instead of the embed-URL, the direct YouTube/Vimeo video link can now be used in the shortcode
- Fixed: Nesting the shortcode causes other elements overlapping the lightbox
- 100% backwards compatibility
- Minor CSS tweaks and improvements
1.1.2 05/16/2017
- Removed admin notice
- Updated plugin description
1.1.1 05/20/2017
- New: Elementor support – by adding !important to the video iframe width and max-width attributes to prevent Elementor (and others) from overriding.
1.1 02-27-2017
- Stability & maintenance release
- New: Use ESC-key on your keyboard to close the popup
1.0.1
- Tweak: Increased z-index to make sure ryv-popup is on top
1.0
- Initial release