Use this plugin when you want to display a list of recent YouTube videos from a
channel or playlist in your site's sidebar.
This plugin is a fork of Aleksandar Urošević's
YouTube
Channel. This plugin is much
more lightweight and does only have a subset of YouTube Channel's features.
The videos are each only presented with a thumbnail, and optionally also its
title and/or description. Clicking a thumbnail takes the user to the video's
page on YouTube. This results in a much smaller codebase and no additional
front-end dependencies. The original plugin, YouTube Channel by Aleksandar
Urošević, on the other hand depends on several JavaScript libraries
(
jQuery,
FitVids.JS and
Magnific Popup), which
potentially makes the whole WordPress site both slower to load and use.
Features
- Display latest videos from YouTube channel, favorites or playlist.
- Option to get random videos from resources mentioned above.
- The videos are displayed with a thumbnail.
- Clicking a thumbnail takes the user to the video's page on YouTube.
- Custom caching timeout.
Styling
You can use the
style.css
from your theme to style the widget's content.
.youtube_channel
- Main widget wrapper class (non-responsive block has
additional class default
, responsive block has additional class
responsive
).
.ytc_title
- Class of video title above thumbnail.
.ytc_video_container
- Class of a single item's container wrapper.
.ytc_video_1
, .ytc_video_2
, ... - Class for the container of a single
item where the number is the item's placement in the list.
.ytc_video_first
- Class of the first item's container.
.ytc_video_last
- Class of the last item's container.
.ytc_video_mid
- Class of all other containers.
.ytc_description
- Class for video description text.
Developer
The full source code of the plugin can be found on Github at
github.com/MaTachi/lightweight-youtube-channel-widget.
Credits