By Milind MoreVideo Lightbox for YouTube/Vimeo Plugin
A YouTube/Vimeo FancyBox uses a fancy-box(light-box) to show YouTube/Vimeo video in a popup box on click of thumbnail which is generated from YouTube/ …
A Video Lightbox for YouTube/Vimeo uses colorbox thanks to Jack Moore to show YouTube and Vimeo video in a popup box on click of thumbnail which is generated from Youtube and Vimeo video.
you can use it with a shortcode in the page, post, and text widget.
The plugin now has support for the official AMP plugin.
[youtube videoid="<youtube videoid goes here>" height="<height goes here>" width="<width goes here>"] [youtube url="<youtube url goes here>"] 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="<vimeo videoid goes here>" height="<height goes here>" width="<width goes here>"] [vimeo url="<vimeo url goes here>"] Installation
- Upload
youtubefancyboxfolder 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
Screenshots
Backend of Plugin
add the shortcode on a page
Thumbnails generated from youtube video
Youtube Video in Lightbox
FAQ
You need to add shortcode to your page, post, or your text widget
Yes, It does it’s in the plugin submenu named “YTubeFancyBox”.
You can set the default height and width on the admin side
You can set the default autoplay option at the backend
You can set height and width for each image thumbnail in shorcode [youtube videoid="<videoid>" height="<height>" width="<width>"]
You can find youtube video id at the backend by inserting youtube video URL
Yes, you can add [youtube url="<youtube video URL here>"]
Changelog
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