Create and place YouTube embeds

Embed Plus for YouTube Pro is a separately installed WordPress plugin for standard videos, YouTube Shorts, channel and playlist galleries, livestreams, and premieres. Its visual wizard prepares embeds with playback, presentation, and privacy settings. In Gutenberg, add the Embed Plus for YouTube Wizard block from the Embeds category; the classic editor is also supported. With compatible page builders such as Elementor, Beaver Builder, SiteOrigin, and Visual Composer, create a shortcode in the wizard and place it in a shortcode or text widget.

Gallery presentation and playback

Channel and playlist galleries let users browse videos, with gallery order following the channel or playlist order on YouTube. Pro adds list and slider layouts, popup or lightbox playback, and text-only paging that hides thumbnails. Galleries can also play through videos continuously without requiring a click on each thumbnail. Responsive embeds fit phone, tablet, and desktop screens.

• Facade loading: For standard videos and galleries, a lighter player loads first and the full YouTube embed loads after a user clicks. Livestreams always load the real player.
• Lazy loading effects: You can apply visual effects and animations as YouTube embeds load.
• Caching: Cached information helps reduce frequent requests to YouTube and can support faster page loads.
• Script and asset handling: The extension can defer critical and non-critical JavaScript and serves minified CSS and JavaScript.

Controls, privacy, and metadata

Embed settings include player dimensions, autoplay, captions, annotations, looping, related-video behavior, fullscreen controls, and start and end times. Privacy settings include YouTube no-cookie, YouTube API restrictions, and a customizable GDPR consent message.

When a post or page contains at least one video, Pro can use the first video's thumbnail as its featured picture. Automatic video SEO tagging and Open Graph tagging for Facebook add metadata to published content. Gallery and livestream embeds, along with video schema tags, require a YouTube API key.

Live chat and embed monitoring

Add a YouTube live chat box alongside a livestream; YouTube live chat can include Super Chat and Super Stickers. Deleted-video alerts help identify embeds whose videos have been removed or taken down. Mobile compatibility checking can help find restrictions that prevent visitors on mobile devices from viewing an embed. The embed-focused analytics dashboard tracks viewing activity for each embed, helping editors review which embeds receive more or less activity and whether videos are blocked in some countries.