WP YouTube Lyte
Frank Goossens (futtta) By Frank Goossens (futtta)

April 25, 2024

WP YouTube Lyte Plugin

High performance YouTube video, playlist and audio-only embeds which don't slow down your blog and offer optimal accessibility.

WP YouTube Lyte allows you to “lazy load” your video’s, by inserting responsive “Lite YouTube Embeds”. These look and feel like normal embedded YouTube, but only call the “fat” YouTube-player when clicked on, thereby reducing download size & rendering time substantially when embedding YouTube occasionally and improving page performance dramatically when you’ve got multiple YouTube video’s on one and the same page. The plugin can be configured to cache YouTube thumbnails locally, improving both performance and privacy. As such LYTE embedded YouTube videos do not require requests to the YouTube servers, probably (I am not a lawyer) allowing for better GDPR-compliance.

The plugin picks up on normal YouTube links, taking over from WordPress core’s oEmbed. Alternatively you can add a YouTube-link for a video or an entire playlist with “httpv” instead of “http(s)” or add a Lyte widget to your sidebar and WP YouTube Lyte replaces that link with the correct performance-optimized code. Some examples:

  • httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SQkWbRublY (normal video embed)
  • httpv://youtu.be/_SQkWbRublY (video embed with youtube-shortlink)
  • httpa://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SQkWbRublY (audio only embed)
  • httpv://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA486E741B25F8E00 (playlist embed)
  • httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SQkWbRublY#stepSize=-1 (video player, one size smaller than what’s configured as default)
  • httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SQkWbRublY?start=20&showinfo=0 (video player, start playing at 20 seconds and don’t show title)

Or using shortcodes:

 [lyte id='_SQkWbRublY' /] [lyte id='_SQkWbRublY' audio='true' /] [lyte id='A486E741B25F8E00' playlist='true' /]

WP YouTube Lyte has been written with optimal performance as primary goal, but has been tested for maximum browser-compatibility (iPad included) while keeping an eye on accessibility. Starting with version 1.2.0 lyte embeds are fully responsive and can automatically embed videoObject microdata as well. The plugin is fully multi-language, with support for Catalan, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Romanian, Spanish and Slovene.

Feedback is welcome; see info in the faq for bug reports/ feature requests and feel free to rate and/or report on compatibility on wordpress.org.

Installation

Just install form your WordPress “Plugins|Add New” screen and all will be well. Manual installation is very straightforward as well:

  1. Upload the zip-file and unzip it in the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Place a link to a YouTube clip like this; httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SQkWbRublY

Screenshots

FAQ

Why does WP YouTube Lyte need to access the YouTube API? What is an API anyway?

An API is a way to have two pieces of software talk to each other to exchange information. In this case WP YouTube Lyte contacts YouTube to ask it for the thumbnail, the title and the description of the video you added. The thumbnail and title are visible on the webpage (in the Lyte player) while the description is in the HTML as microdata for search engines optimization reasons (see below).

OK, now how can get that API key?

  1. Go to Google Developer Console and log in with your Google account.

  2. Click on ‘Create Project’ and:

    • Fill in a Project Name
    • Fill in a Project ID
    • Click on ‘Create’

  3. On the next page (or when there is no next page, click on your Project’s name):

    • Scroll down to YouTube Data API v3 and click on it
    • Click on ‘ENABLE’ at the top to enable the API
    • Optionally disable other API’s

  4. In the sidebar on the left:

    • Click on ‘Credentials’
    • Click on ‘Create Credential’ at the top.
    • Click on ‘API key’
    • Set as little restrictions as possible, most problems with getting this working are caused by these settings.
    • Click on ‘Create’

  5. Copy your API key to WP YouTube Lyte settings page.

I’m getting “technical errors” when validating my YouTube API key

In certain cases when adding restrictions the API key when tested might give technical warnings even if things are working correctly, make sure to check if new video’s are having the title displayed to confirm all is well.

Will WP YouTube Lyte work if I don’t provide an API key?

Yes, with some exceptions; WP YouTube Lyte will continue to work, rendering Lyte players, but without the title and microdata (description, time, …) and without thumbnails for playlists.

I don’t want an API key, how can I get rid of the “API key”-notice?

Just enter “none” (without the quotes) in the API key field and Lyte will stop nagging you.

Does WP YouTube Lyte protect my visitor’s privacy?

As opposed to some of the most importantplugins there is no 3rd party tracking code in WP YouTube Lyte, but YouTube off course does see visitor requests coming in for the thumbnails unless the option to cache thumbnails locally is enabled. If thumbnails are cached locally, no request will be sent to YouTube by your visitor’s browser until/ unless the video is played.

I use a page builder and LYTE does not seem active on the YouTube video’s I add there?

LYTE by default uses WordPress’ “the_content”-filter. Page builders don’t apply that filter to their content and thus LYTE does not get triggered on those. As a workaround you can either add the LYTE widget or add the LYTE video using the shortcode in your page-builder Text-block, this works in most page-builders.

Can I use WP YouTube Lyte for a custom field?

Just pass the httpv url of such a field to lyte_preparse like this:
if(function_exists(‘lyte_preparse’)) { echo lyte_preparse($video); }
and you’re good to go!

Does WP YouTube Lyte work with Infinite Scroll?

Starting from version 1.1.0 it does; in Infinite Scroll‘s configuration you just have to add “ly.te()” in the “Javascript to be called after the next posts are fetched”-box.

How does WP YouTube Lyte support microdata?

  • There is a specific microdata scheme for “videoObject” which WP YouTube Lyte can add to your page, which Google can use to display the video thumbnail next to the search-result
  • This is optional and can be disabled in the options page
  • The videoobject microdata is NOT added for audio-only embeds, playlists or widgets
  • Google will not always display the thumbnail, this presumably depends of the relevance of the video to the rest of the page.

How does captions-support get added to the microdata?

In January 2014 Benetech, a U.S. nonprofit that develops and uses technology to create positive social change, offered a patch that adds the accessibilityFeature property to the microdata for videos that have captions. If you have microdata enabled, WP YouTube Lyte will automatically try to check (in a seperate, asynchronous call via a proxy-webservice, as YouTube only offers captions in their API v3 which requires authentication) if captions are available and if so, adds the accessibilityFeature property with value captions to the microdata. This can be disabled by either disabling microdata or, if you want microdata but not the accessibilityFeature-property by using the “lyte_docaptions”-filter to set captions to false (example-code is in lyte_helper.php_example).

Responsive LYTE embeds

  • The video width in posts and pages will adapt to the width of the container (the div) in which your blogposts/ pages are shown. This means that if your theme is responsive, WP YouTube Lyte will follow.
  • Widgets are not responsive.
  • if the content div width gets to around 200 pixels, the LYTE UI will become garbled (YouTube requires the minimum embed width to be 200px as well).

Can I use WP YouTube Lyte on normal YouTube links or iframes?

Yes, starting with version 1.5.0 normal YouTube links are automatically transferred in Lyte embeds as well. You will automagically also get a (non-Lyte) preview of the video in your visual post edit screen. Starting from LYTE 1.7.5 YouTube iframes can be automatically converted as well.

What can I do with the API?

A whole lot; there are filters to pre-parse the_content, to change settings, to change the CSS, to change the HTML of the LYTE-div, … There are examples for all filters (and one action) in lyte_helper.php_example

Problem with All In One Seo Pack

All in One SEO Pack be default generates a description which still has httpv-links in it. To remove those, you’ll have to use (example code in) lyte_helper.php (see above) and add lyte_filter_aioseop_description to the aioseop-filter in there.

When I click on a LYTE video, a link to YouTube opens, what’s up with that?

You probably added a link around the httpv-url. No link is needed, just the httpv-url.

My video’s seem to load slower on mobile devices?

By default (unless “cache thumbnail locally” is active) WP YouTube Lyte will indeed load slower normal YouTube video’s instead of Lyte ones, as Lyte video’s require would require two clicks from the user to play a video (once to load the YouTube video and once to start it) because there is no autoplay-support on mobile. If you want to, you can force WP YouTube Lyte to make video’s Lyte on mobile with this code (add it in your child theme’s functions.php, in a seperate helper plugin or using the code snippets plugin;

add_filter( 'lyte_do_mobile', '__return_true' );

lyteCache.php is using a lot of resources

lyteCache.php is a standalone file (it does not rely on WordPress) that is used when local thumbnail caching is active, which means requests for those thumbnails are handled by PHP. In WP YouTube Lyte 1.7.14 logic was added to prevent lyteCache.php doing thumbnail caching when being called directy without “local thumbnail caching” being active.

Moreover if you want to ensure the thumbnails can only be used on your own site (and not hotlinked) you can use this code snippet:

add_filter( 'lyte_filter_local_thumb_doublecheck', '__return_true' );

This will have WP YouTube Lyte set (in JavaScript in the HTML) and check (in the request for the thumbnail) a cookie. If the cookie is not set, the image request will be redirected to the YouTube origin URL.

Any other issues should I know about?

  • Having the same YouTube-video on one page can cause WP YouTube Lyte to malfunction (as the YouTube id is used as the div’s id in the DOM, and DOM id’s are supposed to be unique)

I found a bug/ I would like a feature to be added!

Just tell me, I like the feedback! Use the Contact-page on my blog, leave a comment in a post about wp-youtube-lyte or create a new topic on the wordpress.org forum.

How you can help

Changelog

1.7.23

  • fix for PHP deprecation notice in PHP 8.2 in lytePartners.php

1.7.22

  • fix for figcaption in WordPress video block disappearing (thanks Tomas Hartl !)
  • disabled “lyte kinda texturize” by default (an be re-enabled with a filter)

1.7.21

  • bugfix for regression in parsing improvements which in some cases saw links to youtube being shown as LYTE as well.
  • improvement to lyteCache request sanitation (hat tip to Siina Chavoshlu for reporting & testing the fix)
  • other minor changes, see GitHub commits

1.7.20

  • misc. parsing improvements, resulting in YT shorts working as well.

1.7.19

  • improvements to the alternative lazyload feature (kudos to Stirius & believableUN and softromano for helping/ testing!)
  • lyteCache: if maxresdefault.jpg does not exist, try hqdefault.jpg instead (contribution of R33D3M33R, thanks!)
  • some extra filters

1.7.18

  • small improvements to the integration with the YouTube API, thanks to enchamun and mountbatt for their assistance!

1.7.17

  • misc improvements as suggested by WordPress Plugins team
  • filter added to set description as proposed & contributed by Patrick Robertson
  • filter added to disable fallback to youtube thumbnail as proposed & contributed by Benjamin Pick
  • logic added to switch to different type of lazyload behavior proposed & contributed by @softmanro

1.7.16

  • removed old captions code (captions are not natively supported through the YouTube API + the Benetech backend was no longer working)
  • added extra sanitization, thanks m0ze!
  • optionally disable thumbnail fallback to youtube servers (contributed by Benjamin Pick)
  • general code cleanup (spaces, double -> single quotes around strings, …)
  • misc. smaller fixes/ improvements, see Github commits for details.

1.7.15

  • To avoid YouTube cutting API access because no requests were made for 3 months, LYTE now by default caches the YouTube data for 2 months, after which it is refreshed. Previously cached data only refreshed if the cache got cleared manually.

1.7.14

  • fix WordPress core blocks “recent posts block” breaking when summary or full article were shown.
  • remove old language-files (translations are now entirely handled via https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-youtube-lyte/
  • add logic to lyteCache.php to prevent (ab)use like e.g. hotlinking (needs to be enabled with lyte_filter_local_thumb_doublecheck filter) or lyteCache caching even if local thumbnail caching is off.
  • some smaller fixes.

1.7.13

  • fix regression causing HTML comments to break

1.7.12

  • fix for dash becoming double dash
  • move lyteThumbs.php to lyteCache.php because security solutions generally are traumatized by all things thumbs
  • add expiry for cached thumbnails (3 days) to ensure they are updated if the original image got changed
  • some other smaller changes, see https://github.com/futtta/wp-youtube-lyte/commits/main

1.7.11

  • fix playlist that got broken due to the priority change (from 4 to 10)
  • add is_amp (and is_feed) checks to the new lyte_prepare function (which runs at priority 4)

1.7.10

  • fix regression for YouTube embed WordPress block (https://wordpress.org/support/topic/errors-caused-by-upgrading-to-version-1-7-9/) due to changed priority in 1.7.9.

1.7.9

  • improved AMP checking (LYTE should never be active on AMP pages)
  • improvements to gutenberg block parsing
  • switch filter priority to 10 instead of 4 to allow “catching” more rendered YouTube videos
  • fix jsapi breakeage
  • misc. smaller changes/ fixes

1.7.8

  • misc. improvements to prevent structured data warnings from Google.
  • fix breaking locally cached thumbnails when mime_content_type function is not available.
  • tested with WordPress 5.3 (beta 3).

1.7.7

  • bugfix: avoid having to click play twice in Chrome (due to autoplay not working)

1.7.6

  • improvement: extra parameters for shortcode (start, showinfo, stepsize and hqthumb).
  • improvement: also turn youtube-nocookie.com iframes into LYTE’s as proposed by Maxim.
  • improvement: also remove cached thumbnails when clearing cache.
  • improvement: also set image in noscript tag to local hosted thumbnail if that option is active.
  • bugfix: when multiple iframes were on one page, the ones after the LYTE got lost (reported by Daniel Pardella, thanks).

1.7.5

  • improvement: also act on YouTube iframe code if “also act on YouTube links” is on.
  • improvement: if extracted from Gutenburg YouTube embed blocks keep the figure-tag with all relevant CSS classes and keep the caption (if set).

1.7.4

  • improvement: make sure locally cached thumbnails are served with good HTTP response headers (allowing HTTP 304 responses and allowing images to be cached in browser).
  • improvemnet: bigger widget sizes for use in pagebuilders.

1.7.3

  • switched YouTube to youtube-nocookie.com.
  • added span around description to ensure it can be styled separately.

1.7.2

  • new: you can add a text underneath each video (e.g. for privacy disclaimer purposes, think GDPR) by adding it on the settings-page
  • fix: thumbnails from LYTE without API key can now also be cached locally

1.7.1

  • Finally fixed a nasty bug that caused API key validation to fail on PHP 7.1 and higher. A big thank you to @emilyatal, @mkalina, @nicolaottomano, @aminech, @partounian, @nicksws who all provided valuable input in the WordPress LYTE support forum and tested multiple debug-versions to help fix this.

1.7.0

  • new: option to have thumbnail hosted locally to improve performance and privacy (I am not a lawyer, but this could make embedded YouTube GDPR compliant as not requests are sent to YouTube unless/ until the video is played).
  • removed option to add “easy youtube”-links (defunct)
  • make widgets not break HTTPS (thanks R33D3M33R)

1.6.8

  • new: support for Gutenberg blocks with embedded YouTube (tested with Gutenberg plugin version 2.3.0)
  • updated admin screen
  • misc bugfixes (see GitHub commit log for details)
  • confirmed working with WordPress 4.9.4

1.6.7

1.6.6

  • emergency bugfix; else was lost but now got found. sorry for that!

1.6.5

  • bug: PHP warning/ notices when title is empty, fix by kReEsTaL, thanks!
  • bug: YouTube player controls not visible in all browsers when loaded over HTTP, switching to HTTPS for all, as reported by georg6840tb

1.6.4

  • updated to latest YouTube UI, again thanks to Draikin. the bottom control is now hidden by defaults, see FAQ
  • added filter lyte_do_mobile to display lyte video instead of normal youtube on mobile as well, see FAQ
  • if WP YouTube Lyte is configured to load HD video, it will also show the maxresdefault.jpg thumbnail.
  • bugfix: on some mobile browsers WP YouTybe Lyte made the page too wide

1.6.3

  • changed Lyte widget constructor to PHP5-style object contructor
  • tested & confirmed working with WordPress 4.3

1.6.2

  • improvement: youtube playlist URL will now be recognized automatically and rendered LYTE as well (hat tip to markothaler for proposing this)
  • improvement: enter “none” in API key not to be bothered by the missing key notice any more (as requested by TheGiantRedFox1986)
  • improvement: if no API key (or “none” for key) is provided, don’t try to contact YouTube any more, instead just setting a thumbnail (does not work for playlists).
  • cleanup: removed code that catered to YouTube API v2.
  • updated French translations (merci Serge!)

1.6.1

  • fix for WP YouTube Lyte widgets not loading

1.6.0

1.5.0

  • New: WP YouTube Lyte can now also act on normal YouTube URL’s. This behavior is by default active on new installations and is by default off for upgrades (from 1.4.x) to avoid unexpected behavior.
  • Improvement (API): apply lyte_settings filter after after_setup_theme actoin as proposed by Yun
  • Improvement (API): added lyte_match_thumburl filter to set thumbnail as requested by Simon Barnett
  • Bugfix: for audio-only player make title visible to improve accessibility (for screenreaders) as requested by Octocorn
  • Bugfix: some playlists were not working, as reported by jpress
  • Updated most translations, added Ukranian (by Michael Yunat of getvoip.com and Serbian by Ogi Djuraskovic of firstsiteguide.com, kudo’s to all who helped!

1.4.2

  • Bugfix: Playlists in rss-feeds were broken
  • Bugfix: YouTube-link under a playlist was wrong
  • Improvement: example code in lyte_helper.php to also parse http-youtube-links now only triggers if the link is on a new line
  • Tested with WordPress 3.9

1.4.1

  • set interval for captionscheck to 30 days

1.4.0

  • new: if microdata is enabled, check if captions are available and if so add the accessibilityFeature=captions markup. Gracefully contributed by Benetech
  • bugfix: widgets with youtu.be short URL’s were broken (as observed by Robert of audio-times.com.
  • bugfix: in some cases iframe size on mobile was not correct (reported by David of webquarry.com.
  • bugfix: mobile rotation handled more efficiently (based on feedback from Skyfield

1.3.3

1.3.2

  • Added playlist support in the WP YouTube Lyte widget (forget to add it really, thanks to Ed Dingwall to remind me)
  • Added an alternative lytesprite version, created by Claes from PCPLAY.se. To switch, rename lyte/lytesprite.png to lyte/lytesprite_orig.png and then rename lyte/lytesprite_claes.png to lyte/lytesprite.png.
  • Fixed some PHP notices in widget.php

1.3.1

1.3.0

  • WP YouTube Lyte now has an API to allow its behavior to be changed, with extensive examples in lyte_helper.php_example
  • Support for higher quality thumbnails by adding #hqThumb=1 to httpv-link
  • You can disable microdata on a per-video level by adding #noMicrodata=1 to the httpv-link when microdata is enabled.
  • Checkbox on admin-page to flush WP YouTube Lyte cache (which holds title, description, … from YouTube)
  • added a lyte_preparse function to be used by themes/ plugins (input is the YouTube ID)
  • improvement: added opacity to the play-button when not hovered over
  • bugfix: suppress error messages if yt_resp does not contain all data
  • bugfix: solve PHP notice for pS-array in options.php

1.2.2

  • bugfix: apply sanitize_text_field to microdata description- and title-fields to escape e.g. quotes
  • bugfix: added CSS resets to better avoid CSS-conflicts with themes (as reported by longtime user FruityOaty)
  • bugfix: fallback for missing wp_trim_words function in wordpress < 3.3 (as reported by Armude)
  • bugfix: check if the data from cache/ youtube is valid before trying to extract info from it as reported by Collin
  • improvement: better support for RSS/ ATOM feeds as requested by drreen
  • added item in FAQ on how to force normal YouTube links to be parsed by WP YouTube Lyte as well
  • tested with WordPress 3.6 beta 1

1.2.1

  • bugfix: if e.g. modernizr added “audio” as class to the html element, wp youtube lyte got confused. reported by Peco of dubtechnoblog.com and Delphuk
  • tested succesfully with WordPress 3.6 (development-version)

1.2.0

  • LYTE embeds are now fully responsive
  • automatic inclusion of scheme.org microdata (VideoObject)
  • even better performance (less requests; was 5, now 3)
  • updated to current YouTube look & feel
  • less JavaScript, more CSS
  • bugfix: all lyte-output is now removed from excerpts

1.1.9

1.1.8

1.1.7

  • bugfix: 1.1.6 broke excerpts, as reported by Franz of noobtech.at

1.1.6

  • bugfix: remove noscript-stuff from the_excerpt as requested by wordpressvoxbox13
  • bugfix: switch HTTPS detection to is_ssl() WordPress function to avoid breakage on MS IIS
  • removed the “DoNotTrack” bonus feature due to added complexity, at least one bug and the fact that WP DoNotTrack does a better job at this

1.1.5

1.1.4

  • bugfix: audio-only youtube was broken due to changes at YouTube (thanks for reporting Adrian!)
  • bugfix: playlist embedding was somewhat broken (again due to changes at YouTube)
  • bugfix: httpv- or httpa- links were only found if the v-parameter was at the beginning of the querystring (as discovered by Mye)
  • added 2 new widget sizes (250X200px and 400X333px)

1.1.3

1.1.2

  • bugfix: during development of 1.1.0 the javascript to lazy load the lyte player got lost somehow, readded (now in lyte(-min).js)
  • performance: replaced the external stylesheet (lyte.css) with inline javascript that adds an internal stylesheet to the head of the document (thanks for pushing me Collin!

1.1.1

1.1.0

  • updated LYTE-player UI: larger display of preview image, changed look of title placeholder, updated controls image
  • new: added support for “Infinite Scroll” as proposed by “der Tuxman” and Olivier
  • new: added beta-support for YouTube’s JS API as requested by Yun
  • performance: remove double DOM-lookups in javascript, hat tip Yun
  • annoyance-avoidance: check for “Karma Blocker” addon and warn, based on feedback from Leona
  • translation: added Romanian, thanks to Alexander and Web Hosting Geeks
  • bugfix: 2nd video with start or showinfo parameters inherited the ones from the 1st one as well as reported by Josh D
  • bugfix: marked lyte img border css as !important
  • bugfix: moved inline javascript (for each lyte-div) to the footer of the page to solve conflict with some jQuery plugins in MSIE as reported by Yun
  • bugfix: set autohide to false for audio-only embeds

1.0.0

  • new: also works on (manual) excerpts; just add a httpv link to the “excerpt” field on the post/page admin (based on feedback from Ruben@tuttingegneri)
  • new: if youtube-url contains “start” or “showinfo” parameters, these are used when playing the actual video. This means that you can now jump to a specific time in the YouTube video or stop the title/ author from being displayed (based on feedback from a.o. Miguel and Josh D)
  • update: javascript now initiates either after full page load or after 1 second (whatever comes first), thus avoiding video not showing due to other requests taking too long
  • update: bonus feature stops lockerz.com tracking by addtoany (you’ll still want to hide the “earn pointz” tab though)
  • bugfix: prevent the playing video to be in front of e.g. a dropdown-menu or lightbox (thanks to Matt Whittingham)
  • bugfix: solve overlap between player and text when option was set not to show links (reported by Josh D)

0.9.4

  • security: WP YouTube Lyte now works entirely in https if your blog is running in https
  • performance (js/ page rendering): initiate the javascript a little later (at “load” instead of “DOMContentLoaded”) to speed up page load (might need further optimizations)
  • performance (php): have the plugin only include/ execute php when needed
  • updated donottrack.js to match the version used in my WP DoNotTrack-plugin. if want to tweak the way donottrack.js functions, you migth want to check that plugin out (and disable the option in WP YouTube Lyte)
  • bugfix: small tweak in css to force transparency of play-button

0.9.3

  • Bugfix: donottrack.js incorrectly handled document.write, causing javascript that depends on it to malfunction (reported by S.K., thanks for helping out!)
  • Bugfix: moved inline javascript into a function expression to protect values (d=document) from other javascript that might use global variables (thanks to Eric McNiece of emc2innovation.com for reporting & investigating)
  • Bugfix: made changes to widgets to allow a video to appear both in a blog post and in the widget bar and to allow httpv-links in there (although httpv is not needed in widgets) based on feedback from Nick Tann
  • Bugfix: changed priority of add_filter to ensure wp-youtube-lyte can work alongside of the new Smart Youtube Pro v4 (although this might become a problem again if/when a new version of Smart Youtube arrives)
  • Languages: added a full French translation (thanks Serge of blogaf.org)

0.9.2

  • solved bug with W3 Total Cache where the URL for lyte-min.js got broken (thanks to Serge of blogaf.org for reporting and helping figure this out)
  • some work on the bonus feature

0.9.1

  • even better xhtml-compliancy
  • fixed readme.txt problems

0.9.0

  • you can now change player size from the default one (as proposed by Edward Owen); httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SQkWbRublY#stepSize=-2 or httpv://youtu.be/_SQkWbRublY#stepSize=+1 will change player size to one of the other available sizes in your choosen format (4:3 or 16:9)
  • added a smaller 16:9 size and re-arranged player sizes on the options-screen
  • Bugfix: changed lyte-div ID to force it to be xhtml-compliant (ID’s can’t start with a digit, hat tip: Ruben of ytuquelees.net
  • Bugfix: added version in js-call to avoid caching issues (lyte-min.js?ver=0.8.1) as experienced by some users and reported by Ryan of givemeshred.com
  • Upgrade to the “bonus feature” to fix things (consider this beta)
  • Languages: added Hebrew (by Sagive SEO) and Catalan (by Ruben of ytuquelees.net) translations and added completed Spanish version (thanks to Paulino Brener from Social Media Travelers)
  • tested succesfully on WordPress 3.3 (beta 2)

0.8.0

  • added support for playlists
  • added support for HD
  • dropped support for the legacy YouTube embed-code
  • updated UI elements to match new, dark YouTube player style
  • updated player sizes to match YouTube’s
  • added new translations: Spanish (front-end strings, thanks to Paulino Brener @Social Media Travelers) and German (complete, by “der Tuxman”)

0.7.3

0.7.2

  • fixed a bug introduced in 0.7.1 which caused httpv-links that were not on newline, not to be turned into a lyte-player
  • added audio as option for widgets as well (consider this beta, not thoroughly tested yet)

0.7.1

  • re-minized lyte-min.js (there’s lyte.js for your reading pleasure though)
  • thumbnail image in noscript-tags now inherits size of div (to keep it from messing up the layout when JS is not available, e.g. in a feedburner-feed)
  • the html5 version of the audio-player now is a bit higher (was 27px, now 33px) to allow scrolling through the clip
  • the html-output of the plugin now validates against xhtml 1.0 transitional (thanks for the heads-up Carolin)
  • text in frontend (i.e. what your visitors see) is translated into Dutch & French, corrections and other translations are welcome

0.7.0

  • new feature (as seen on Pitchfork): audio-only YouTube embeds (use “httpa://” instead of “httpv://”)
  • merged lyte-min.js and lyte-newtube-min.js into one file
  • added wmode=transparant when video is played in flash-mode

0.6.5

  • updated images for html5-version to new look&feel
  • disabled “watch later” by adding variable “probably_logged_in=false” to youtube embed
  • changed lyte/lyte.css (move margin from .lt to .lyte) to allow changes to positioning of player
  • changed name of js-variable in options.php to solve small bug in rss display
  • added an (experimental) bonus feature

0.6.4

0.6.3

  • only load jquery plugins on this plugin’s options page
  • change thumbnail positiong slightly (5 pixels up)
  • tested on WordPress 3.0.3

0.6.2

  • bugfix: the javascript in widgets.php caused a wp youtube lyte widget not to be shown in the sidebar if no wp youtube lyte was present in the main content
  • load jquery plugins in admin screen using wp_enqueue_script rather then adding them “manually”
  • store the selected feed on the admin-page in a cookie to show the same feed next time

0.6.1

  • widget size can now be set (3 sizes available, to be specified for each widget individually)
  • admin-page now contains links to most recent info (blogposts) on WP YouTube Lyte (and optionally WordPress and Web Technology in general) using the excellent jQuery-plugin zrssfeed
  • bugfix: removed CDATA-wrapper from javascript as WordPress turned ]]> into ]]&gt; which broke the html (which in turn broke syndication in e.g. planets)

0.6.0

  • There now is a WP-YouTube-Lyte widget which you can add to your sidebar (see under “Appearance”->”Widgets”), as requested by the fabulous fruityoaty
  • The thumbnail is now stretched to use as much of the player as possible (thanks to css3’s background-size:contain directive, which works in all bleeding edge browsers)
  • Updated the “play”-button to fit the new YouTube style

0.5.3

  • we now wait for the DOM to be fully loaded (except for MS IE, where we have to wait for window.load) before kicking in, which means wp-youtube-lyte now functions correctly in Opera
  • fixed a bug where lyte’s javascript would overwrite the main div’s class-name (causing css-issues in some themes)
  • there’s new test-data on my blog that shows how fast wp-youtube-lyte really is.

0.5.2

  • fixed a bug where WordPress’ the_excerpt function showed wp-youtube-lyte javascript as text in excerpts
  • fixed problem where google tried to index e.g. options.php (which produced ugly php errors)
  • fixed some css-related bugs, do contact me (see FAQ) if LYTE-player isn’t rendered correctly in your wordpress-theme!
  • moved more css out of javascript to the static css-file

0.5.1

  • added new versions of images, fitting the player width (no more ugly rescaling)
  • moved a lot of css from javascript to a css-file which gets loaded on-the-fly

0.5.0

0.4.1

  • add fullscreen-button to player
  • disable size in options if html5 is selected
  • move player_sizes.inc to player_sizes.inc.php

0.4.0

  • add options to change player size (does not apply to html5-version)
  • noscript optimizations: show image (typically useful in rss-feeds), no text if config is to show links beneath lyte-player

0.3.5

  • changed function-name in options.php to avoid errors like “Fatal error: Cannot redeclare register_mysettings()”

0.3.4

  • tested succesfully on the brand new wordpress 3.0 release
  • css changes to avoid themes messing up lyte-player layout
  • minor text tweaks

0.3.3

0.3.2

  • fixed misc. readme.txt markdown issues (again)

0.3.0

  • added very experimental support for embedded html5 video (see faq)

0.2.2

  • improved the html of the form in options.php for better accessibility

0.2.1

  • 0.2.0 was broken (options.php M.I.A.), 0.2.1 fixes this

0.2.0

  • Added a simple admin-page to allow administrators to choose if links to YouTube and Easy YouTube are added or not
  • Added some bottom-margin to the lytelinks div

0.1.4

  • forgot to update version in the php-file for 0.1.3, causing the update not being fully propageted

0.1.3

  • small bugfix release (opacity of the play-button in Chrome/Safari)

0.1.2

Accessibility enhancements (hat tip: Ricky Buchanan):

  • added alt attributes to images
  • moved youtube link from noscript to div
  • added link to easy youtube

0.1.1

  • Changed meta-info in readme and php-file

0.1

  • Initial version
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  • Version: 1.7.23
  • Active installations: 30,000
  • WordPress Version: 4.0
  • Tested up to: 6.5.5

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