Show video thumbnails or playable video block of recent YouTube Playlist, Channel (User Uploads) videos.
Add My YouTube Channel widget to the widget area or shortcode to post/page content, set Channel ID or Playlist ID, chose resource to use and keep defaults for all other options. And voila! You will get the latest video from chosen YouTube channel or playlist.
IMPORTANT My YouTube Channel does not support Live Streams and does not have Gutenberg Block. Use Shortcode Block or Classic Block to insert shortcode to page/post content.
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For a manually picked set of videos from YouTube, check out Easy YouTube Gallery.
default
), HTML5 (iframe
), HTML5 Asynchronous (iframe2
) abd Playlist Embed (playlist
)iframe2
) does not support Enhanced Privacy due to YouTube API limitationsFor a fully functional plugin, PHP 7.4 or newer has required! If you use older PHP, we highly recommend you request from your developer, server support or hosting company to update PHP to a secure version.
Use Customizer, style.css
from the child theme or Head & Footer Code plugin to custom style and tweak the look and feel of the My YouTube Channel blocks. You can utilise the following classes:
.widget_youtube-channel
– class of whole widget (parent for widget title and YTC block).youtube_channel
– YTC block wrapper class. Additional classes are available: .default
– for non-responsive block.responsive
– when you have enabled responsive option.ytc_title
– class for video title container above thumbnail/video object .ytc_title_above
– additional class for video title above video/thumbnail.ytc_title_below
– additional class for video title below video/thumbnail.ytc_title_inside
– additional class for video title printed inside of the thumbnail.ytc_title_inside_bottom
– additional class for bottom aligned video title printed inside of the thumbnail.ytc_video_container
– class of container for single item, plus: .ytc_video_1
, .ytc_video_2
, … – class of container for single item with ordering number of item in widget.ytc_video_first
– class of first container for single item.ytc_video_mid
– class of all other containers for single item.ytc_video_last
– class of last container for single item.ar16_9
– class for Aspect Ratio 16:9.ar4_3
– class for Aspect Ration 4:3.ytc_thumb
– class of anchor for Thumbnail mode.fluid-width-video-wrapper
– class for parent element of IFRAME for enabled responsive.ytc_description
– class for video description text below thumbnail/video object.ytc_link
– class of container for link to channelIf WordFence or other malware scan tool detect My YouTube Channel file youtube-channel.php
as a potential risk because base64_encode()
and base64_decode()
functions, remember that we use this two functions to store and restore JSON feeds to transient cache, so potential detection is false positive.
Along with Widget, you can add My YouTube Channel block inline by using shortcode [youtube_channel]
. Default plugin parameters will be used for shortcode, but you can customize all parameters per shortcode.
General Settings
class
(string) Set custom class if you wish to target special styling for specific YTC blockchannel
(string) ID of preferred YouTube channel. Do not set full URL to channel, but just last part from URL – ID (name)handle
(string) defined custom handle from YouTube handlevanity
(string) DEPRECATED part after www.youtube.com/c/ from Custom URLusername
(string) DEPRECATED Optional legacy YouTube username.playlist
(string) ID of preferred YouTube playlist.resource
(int) Resource to use for feed: 0
Channel (User uploads)1
DEPRECATED Favorites (for defined channel)2
Playlist3
DEPRECATED Liked Videoscache
(int) Period in seconds for caching feed. You can disable caching by setting this option to 0, but if you have a lot of visits, consider at least short caching (couple minutes).fetch
(int) Number of videos that will be used as stack for random pick (min 2, max 50)num
(int) Number of videos to display per YTC block.random
(bool) Option to randomize videos on every page load.Video Settings
ratio
(int) Set preferred aspect ratio for thumbnail and video. You can use: 3
16:9 (widescreen)1
4:3responsive
(bool) Distribute one full width video per row.width
(int) Width of thumbnail and video in pixels.display
(string) Object that will be used to represent video. We have couple predefined options: thumbnail
Thumbnail will be used and video will be loaded in lightbox. (default)iframe
HTML5 (iframe)iframe2
HTML5 (iframe) with asynchronous loading – recommendedplaylist
Embedded playlist (same behaviour as old function only_pl
)thumb_quality
(string) Define image quality for thumbnail display mode. Default is hqdefault
, available: default
Default Quality (120x90px)mqdefault
Medium Quality (320x180px)hqdefault
High Quality (480x360px)sddefault
Standard Definition (640x480px)maxresdefault
Maximum Resolution (1280x720px)no_thumb_title
(bool) By default YouTube thumbnail will have tooltip with info about video title and date of publishing. By setting this option to 1 or true you can hide tooltipthemelight
(bool) By default YouTube have dark play controls theme. By setting this option to 1 or true you can get light theme in player (HTML5 and Flash)controls
(bool) Set this option to 1 or true to hide playback controls.autoplay
(bool) Enable autoplay of first video in YTC video stack by setting this option to 1 or truemute
(bool) Set this option to 1 or true to mute videos set to autoplay on loadnorel
(bool) Set this option to 1 or true to hide related videos after finished playbaknobrand
(bool) Set this option to 1 or true to hide YouTube logo from playback control barnolightbox
(bool) Set this option to 1 or true to prevent YTC block with thumbnail to open in lightbox. If you have other plugin that trigger youtube links for lightbox, that one will steal links from this YTC block.target
(string) If you enable nolightbox for specific YTC block, you can force opening of thumbnail links in new tab/window if you set this shortcode option to _blank
like target="_blank"
.Content Layout
showtitle
(string): none
– Hide titleabove
– Display title above video/thumbnailbelow
– Display title below video/thumbnailinside
– Display top aligned title inside thumbnail; if display
is not thumbnail
then treat as above
inside_b
– Display bottom aligned title inside thumbnail; if display
is not thumbnail
then treat as below
titletag
– Video title HTML tag to wrap title (H3, H4, H5, div, span, strong, etc)showdesc
(bool) Set to 1 or true to show video description.desclen
(int) Set number of characters to cut down length of video description. Set to 0 to use full length description.noinfo
(bool) Set to 1 or true to hide overlay video infos (from embedded player)noanno
(bool) Set to 1 or true to hide overlay video annotations (from embedded player)Link to Channel
goto_txt
(string)popup
(int) Control where link to channel will be opened: 0
open link in same window1
DEPRECATED open link in new window with JavaScript2
open link in new window with target=”_blank” anchor attributelink_to
(string) URL to link: none
Hide link (defult)handle
YouTube handle URLchannel
Channel pagevanity
DEPRECATED Vanity custom URLlegacy
DEPRECATED Legacy username pagePlease note, to enhance plugin functionality, we can change or deprecate some shortcode parameters in future.
You can modify final output of video block by hooking to filter ytc_print_video
.
Four parameters are provided:
video_content
– HTML of original video blockitem
– YouTube video object which contains: snippet->publishedAt
– date of publishing YouTube videoshippet->title
– YouTube video titleshippet->description
– YouTube video descriptionsnippet->resourceId->videoId
– YouTube video IDinstance
– Current My YouTube Channel Block parameters, including global settings: handle
channel
vanity
DEPRECATEDusername
DEPRECATEDplaylist
resource
cache
fetch
num
skip
privacy
ratio
width
responsive
display
fullscreen
controls
autoplay
autoplay_mute
norel
playsinline
showtitle
titletag
showdesc
desclen
modestbranding
hideanno
goto_txt
popup_goto
link_to
tinymce
nolightbox
apikey
thumb_quality
timeout
random
no_thumb_title
class
target
y
– order number of video (1
for first, 2
for second, etc)Example:
add_filter( 'ytc_print_video', 'customized_ytc_print_video', 10, 4 ); function customized_ytc_print_video( $video_block, $item, $instance, $y ) { // Do whatever you wish to do // ... return $video_block; }
Use Plugins / Add New in WordPress or install the plugin manually:
youtube-channel
directory to the wp-content/plugins/
directory on the server.If you have to upgrade manually, repeat the installation steps and re-enable the plugin.
To make My YouTube Channel work you have to generate YouTube Data API Key v3 and insert it to General plugin settings.
Learn more about Obtaining authorization credentials and for detailed instructions on how to generate your own API Key follow instructions below.
Don’t forget to check and update Channel ID in the plugin’s General settings, Widgets and/or shortcodes.
You can get Channel ID from the page Account Advanced while you’re logged in to your YouTube account.
Please folllow Installation instructions.
We cannot afford licenses for various premium themes and plugins to keep the fee plugin My YouTube Channel working with each of them.
If My YouTube Channel clash with a premium theme or plugin, we can help you only if you help us. Ask theme/plugin author for approval to provide a package to us for debugging on local development domain youtube-channel.wp
.
Upload the installation package to your cloud drive (Dropbox, One Drive, Google Drive, iCloud, WeTransfer or other) and provide a share link to us by contact form.
As a logged-in administrator, you will see an error explanation. Known issues:
YTC ERROR: Please check did you set the proper Channel ID. You choose to show videos from the channel, but YouTube does not recognize MyCoolLegacyName as an existing or public channel.
Do what the message says – check and correct Channel ID in default settings/widget/shortcode.
YTC ERROR Check YouTube Data API Key restrictions, empty cache if enabled by appending in the browser address bar parameter ?ytc_force_recache=1
If there is no YTC ERROR
code in HTML source, visit Google API Explorer and append to the end of URL one of resource ID’s based on your Channel ID:
Note that both resources are playlists (including uploads to channel), so append mentioned ID to field playlistId (not to id), and click Execute button at the bottom of that page.
You will be able to reproduce HTTP Error w/o WordPress if you have SSH access to the server hosting your website. Log in to shell and run the following command (or ask your developer to do so):
curl https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems
You will get an HTTP Error from the curl command or response like the one below.
{ "error": { "errors": [ { "domain": "global", "reason": "required", "message": "Required parameter: part", "locationType": "parameter", "location": "part" } ], "code": 400, "message": "Required parameter: part" } }
Known HTTP Errors:
error:0D0890A1:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_verify:unknown message digest algorithm
Server tool curl has built with an older version of OpenSSL that does not support certificates signed with sha256-With-RSA-Encryption. It requires at least OpenSSL 0.9.8o for the total management of SHA256.
Please contact your server administrator or hosting provider to help you with this issue.
Problem with the SSL CA cert (path? access rights?)
Yet another server issue, not related to My YouTube Channel nor WordPress.
Please restart Apache (or Nginx) server. If that does not fix the issue, restart the entire server. Or contact server support to help.
Login to your YouTube account and visit page Account Advanced.
Channel ID is YouTube Channel ID value composed of mixed characters starting with UC.
Check out Customized URL overview article.
Manually extract Playlist ID from YouTube playlist URL. Find string after &list=
parameter in URL.
Playlist ID can contain lowercase and uppercase letters, dash and underscore characters.
Regular playlists starts with uppercase letters PL (like PLEC850BE962234400), while Playlist ID for YouTube mixes start with uppercase RD (eg. RDCfMMlT8Lyns).
YouTube provide better videos if the height of the embedded video is 320 or more. If you use a small YTC video size, 240p will be loaded instead. It’s not possible to force 720p in tiny YTC.
The modestbranding option does not work for all videos. A lot of videos still have the YouTube logo in the control bar. We recommend enabling the option Hide player controls
instead.
The logo appears in the upper right corner on hover or when the video pauses. Read more here
Start with following shortcode combination:
[youtube_channel num=7 responsive=1 class=ytc_wall_1-6 resource=2 random=1]
Then add custom CSS code to Customizer, or child theme style.css or to Head & Footer Code plugin:
.youtube_channel.ytc_wall_1-6 .ytc_video_container { padding: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 33.333%; } .youtube_channel.ytc_wall_1-6 .ytc_video_container.ytc_video_1 { max-width: 100%; } @media screen and (max-width: 768px) { .youtube_channel.ytc_wall_1-6 .ytc_video_container:not(.ytc_video_1) { max-width: 50%; } } @media screen and (max-width: 480px) { .youtube_channel.ytc_wall_1-6 .ytc_video_container:not(.ytc_video_1) { max-width: 100%; } }
That will show thumbnails for seven random videos from the default playlist defined in plugin settings: one full-width thumbnail and six remaining thumbnails distributed to 3 columns on wide screens, two columns under 768px and a single thumbnail per row under 480px.
My YouTube Channel does not support pagination.
Resize thumbnail play button by adding following custom CSS to Customizer, or child theme style.css or to Head & Footer Code plugin:
.youtube_channel .ytc_thumb>span:before { transform: scale(.65); }
To remove (hide) thumbnail play button, use following custom CSS:
.youtube_channel .ytc_thumb>span:before { display: none !important; }
Feel free to submit a feature request by creating a new topic on Community forum. Make sure to prefix Topic Title with [Feature Request] …
Please note, we cannot guarantee an ETA to implement the requested feature.
If you are in a hurry, please find a developer to do it for you or request a quote from us.
You can report security bugs through the Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program. The Patchstack team help validate, triage and handle any security vulnerabilities. Report a security vulnerability.
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(themelight
), showinfo
(noinfo
, hideinfo
)skip
skip
to skip requested number of items