WP Video Popup – WordPress Video Lightbox for YouTube & Vimeo

=== The best WordPress video lightbox plugin! === WP Video Popup lets you add a responsive YouTube or Vimeo video lightbox to any page, post or custom post type of your website. Add beautiful, minimalistic video lightbox popups to your WordPress website with just a few clicks & without sacrificing performance. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBEppQ7mslo] Use the shortcode [wp-video-popup video="link-to-your-youtube-or-vimeo-video"] in your post, page, custom post type or template file to add a responsive YouTube or Vimeo video lightbox to your WordPress website. To open the lightbox, simply add the CSS-class wp-video-popup to the element you wish to open/trigger the lightbox. GDPR compliance WP Video Popup is 100% GDPR compliant. No connection to YouTube or Vimeo is established before the trigger element has been clicked. Page speed & performance Embedding YouTube or Vimeo videos can slow down your website. With WP Video Lightbox the video is only being loaded by the click on the trigger element for the maximum performance & fast loading speeds. Fully responsive The WordPress video lightbox is fully responsive and adjusts to the device width & height the video is viewed on.

2.9.5 April 17, 2023

• Tested up to 6.2
• Minor tweaks & improvements

2.9.4 November 11, 2022

• Tested up to 6.1
• Removed deprecated webkitallowfullscreen & mozallowfullscreen

2.9.3 July 01, 2022

• Tested up to 6.0

2.9.2 March 02, 2022

• Tested up to 5.9
• Updated plugin description

2.9.1 March 15, 2021

• Slight improvements to the settings page design
• Tested up to 5.7

2.9 February 23, 2021

• Refactored settings page design

2.8.1 December 04, 2020

• WordPress 5.6 compatibility
• Minor tweaks & improvements

2.8 June 17, 2020

• Maintenance release

2.7 October 15, 2019

• New: Added support for portrait videos (Vimeo). To declare a vertical Vimeo video, simply add the portrait="1" parameter to your shortcode.

2.6 September 26, 2019

• Code improvements

2.5.1 September 16, 2019

• Fixed: Safari full-screen mode doesn't work

2.5 August 27, 2019

• New: youtube-nocookie.com support
• Deprecated: vimeo="1" parameter to declare a Vimeo video. No longer required. We now check that for you in the background.
• Tweak: Improved backwards compatibility
• Overall code improvements

2.4 April 8, 2019

• Tweak: Added allow="autoplay" parameter to iframe to allow autoplay in Chrome (thanks @owenmack)
• Fixed: A bug where URL parameters weren't added properly using shortcode attributes
• Fixed: Vimeo video was not muted with mute="1"
• Deprecated: hide-related shortcode attribute

2.3 December 12, 2018

• New: Shortcode attributes to add URL parameters (mute, hide-related, start)
• Tweak: Updated PAnD to the latest version
• Tested up to WordPress 5.0

2.2 September 23, 2018

• New: Filter to add attributes to the embed-URL

2.1 September 4, 2018

• New: Minor tweaks & improvements

2.0 August 25, 2018

• New: Shortcode has changed to [wp-video-popup video="link-to-your-video"] for YouTube videos and [wp-video-popup vimeo="1" video="link-to-your-video"] for vimeo videos
• New: Instead of the embed-URL, the direct YouTube/Vimeo video link can now be used in the shortcode
• Fixed: Nesting the shortcode causes other elements overlapping the lightbox
• 100% backwards compatibility
• Minor CSS tweaks and improvements

1.1.2 05/16/2017

• Removed admin notice
• Updated plugin description

1.1.1 05/20/2017

• New: Elementor support – by adding !important to the video iframe width and max-width attributes to prevent Elementor (and others) from overriding.

1.1 02-27-2017

• Stability & maintenance release
• New: Use ESC-key on your keyboard to close the popup

1.0.1

• Tweak: Increased z-index to make sure ryv-popup is on top

1.0

• Initial release