Emmad Video Gallery is a fast, secure, and fully responsive video gallery plugin for WordPress. Effortlessly publish video portfolios, video showcases, and multimedia galleries using a dedicated custom post type and a clean, accessible shortcode.
Features an immersive fullscreen custom video player with smooth controls, live scrubber, volume control, custom player branding logo, and instant category filtering.
Key Features
- Multi-Source Video Support: Seamlessly embed YouTube videos, Vimeo videos, or self-hosted MP4 files.
- Custom Fullscreen Player: Distraction-free, responsive overlay video player with custom branding.
- Instant Category Filtering: Animated, instant frontend filtering without page reloads.
- Fully Responsive & Touch-Ready: Optimized for all screen sizes with touch-scrubbing on mobile devices.
- Accessibility Focused: Full keyboard navigation (Space, Escape, Arrow keys, Mute) and ARIA attributes for screen readers.
- Custom Player Logo: Upload your own watermark or logo via WordPress Media Library in the settings page.
- Optimized Performance: CSS and JavaScript are strictly enqueued only on pages where the video gallery is rendered.
- Block Editor & Page Builder Compatible: Fully compatible with Gutenberg Shortcode blocks, Elementor, Divi, and classic themes.
- Secure & Standards Compliant: Strict nonces, capability validation, input sanitization, and output escaping across all operations.
- Translation Ready: Fully internationalized with an included .pot translation catalog.
From your WordPress dashboard
- Visit Plugins > Add New.
- Search for "Emmad Video Gallery".
- Click "Install Now" and then "Activate".
Manual upload
- Download
emmad-video-gallery.zip.
- Navigate to Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin.
- Select the zip file and click "Install Now".
- Activate the plugin.
Getting Started
- Navigate to Videos > Add New in your WordPress dashboard.
- Enter the title of your video.
- In the Video Details meta box, enter your video URL (YouTube, Vimeo, or self-hosted MP4).
- Set a Featured Image as the video cover thumbnail (optional; a clean placeholder is provided if omitted).
- Assign Video Categories to enable frontend category filters.
- Click Publish.
- Create or edit any page and add the shortcode
[emmaviga_gallery].