Screenroom shows YouTube videos as a slider, a player with playlist, a grid, a Shorts wall, a list or a single video. Your website stays fast, and visitors are not connected to Google before they click play.
Use it as a YouTube channel feed on your homepage, a video gallery for your portfolio, courses or products, a Shorts wall or a playlist player. You no longer embed videos one by one, and unlike other YouTube feed plugins it does not ask for an API key.
Try it first: click
Live Preview above. The studio opens in your browser with four demo galleries of the Blender open movies, and there is nothing to install.
Three ways to pick videos
- Channel: the newest videos of any channel appear automatically. Choose videos, Shorts or both.
- Playlist: any public playlist, also from other channels.
- Your own list: paste links to any videos, or pick them from the videos your galleries have loaded.
Show them as they come, newest or oldest first, A–Z, most viewed first or in random order.
Six layouts
- Slider with swipe support, endless and optionally moving on by itself; arrows left, centered, right, far apart or on the pictures; progress as lines, dots, a number or a bar
- Large player with a playlist beside or below it, a soft ambient glow and a cinema mode
- Grid with a large lead video
- Shorts wall: upright videos side by side, swipeable on phones
- Compact list for long archives with title, date and a small picture, newest or oldest first
- Single video
Design
- Four styles to start from (Modern, Classic, Minimal and Cinema), for the whole website or as a style of its own for one gallery
- Any accent color, light or dark scheme, corner radius, spacing
- Image formats 16:9, 4:3, 1:1 and 9:16 for Shorts
- Title below or on the image, hover effects (zoom, drift, shine, lift)
- Play button in three colors, four shapes (circle, rounded square, wide or just the triangle) and four triangle styles
- Play in place, large right below its row in a grid, or in a lightbox that grows from the card. An “Up next” card appears before the next video starts
- Start time per video, subtitles on, start muted
- Show dates, view counts, the description and a “New” badge for fresh videos
- Hide single videos or filter by words in the title
- Swipe and keyboard in every layout; no animation for visitors who turned animations off
Fast pages
Video lists are loaded in the background about once an hour and cached, so pages never wait for YouTube. The YouTube player is only loaded when a visitor clicks play. A page with ten videos loads as fast as a page with none.
Privacy-friendly
- Thumbnails are copied to your own website. Before clicking play, visitors do not connect to Google at all.
- Videos play from youtube-nocookie.com, YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode.
- Optional notice before playing, with an “always play” choice that is remembered in the visitor’s browser without a cookie.
- Follows your cookie banner: Borlabs Cookie, Complianz, Real Cookie Banner, CookieYes, Cookiebot, Usercentrics and Klaro are asked at the moment of the click.
Easy to use
- The studio: each gallery is edited full screen, with the real gallery in the middle. Where the videos come from is on the left, its design on the right, and below it you pick the device (desktop, tablet, phone) and a light or dark website. Click a part of the gallery to change it, or switch to “Try it” and use it like a visitor. Undo and redo, keyboard shortcuts and panels you can widen are there too. It saves itself.
- From the block editor, the block opens the studio right over the page.
- Overview: what needs attention at a glance. Videos: every video your galleries have loaded. Search them, hide one everywhere or make a gallery from a selection.
- Shows on which pages each gallery is used.
- Privacy check with a text suggestion for your privacy policy.
- Settings: how often YouTube is asked, how new galleries start, whether editors may edit galleries, export and import.
- Help and status page: frequently asked questions, last refresh, a one-click refresh and “Copy diagnostics” for the support forum.
- “Screenroom” block for the block editor, shortcode for page builders. Pages that show a gallery leave the page cache when it changes (WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache, W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache, SiteGround Optimizer, Elementor).
- No YouTube API key and no Google account needed.
Pro version
Everything above is free, without limits on galleries. An optional Pro version adds coverflow, stories, bento, spotlight and testimonial layouts, smart galleries that fill themselves by rules, chapters and a course mode, “Show more” for long galleries, an end card with a call to action, galleries as tabs or as a shelf of tiles, a search field, a link to each video, several channels in one gallery, up to 200 videos via your own YouTube API key, live streams and premieres first with a countdown, a mini player, a call-to-action button, video SEO, click statistics without cookies, and an Elementor widget and Divi module. The free version works fully on its own.
2.4.1
This release is about not losing work.
- Deleted galleries stay under “Recently deleted” for 30 days and can be restored there.
- Two windows on the same gallery no longer overwrite each other: the studio asks which version to keep. “Done” in the block editor waits until everything is saved.
- A video that was private for a while comes back by itself; an empty answer from YouTube no longer empties a gallery, and pictures that cached pages may still show are kept for a week.
- Names keep “%”, “&” and “<” as typed; imports keep the start times of videos; adding from the library says when a gallery is full.
- The studio's videos column is laid out like the design column, with sections for source, selection and filters.
- Pro: testimonials of videos not shown in the editor are kept, and deleting Pro while the free version is active works.
2.4.0
- New: set the slider's arrows and progress yourself (left, center, right, far apart or on the pictures); arrows as ring, filled, glass or arrow only, in three sizes; progress as lines, dots, a number (“2 / 8”), a bar or none.
- The studio: click the arrows or the progress to set them right there, and every choice shows the gallery with it while you point at it.
- Choices in the studio and under Design are now small pictures of the result: the play button on a video picture, the arrows and progress as they will look.
2.3.4
- “Try it” in the studio: the panels make room and the gallery sits on a page of your website (with a browser bar, a head, a heading and a section below), on desktop, tablet and phone, light or dark.
2.3.3
- The welcome picture of the overview shows the same three videos as the new icon.
2.3.2
- A new icon: the video in front, the ones before and after it beside it.
2.3.1
- The plugin now shows its full name, “Screenroom – Video Gallery & Slider for YouTube”. Nothing else changes.
2.3.0
- Only one video plays at a time: with several galleries on one page, starting a video now pauses the videos of the other galleries too.
- New: lines in “Video links” that are not a YouTube video are named right below the field, instead of being left out silently.
- New name: Video Slider for YouTube is now Screenroom. Galleries, settings, blocks and shortcodes stay as they are; blocks saved with the old name move over by themselves.
- Changed: “Follow the cookie banner” is on for existing websites too. Where a banner has not allowed YouTube, visitors now see the notice before a video plays, even with “Play right away”.
- New: the studio. Each gallery is edited full screen with the real gallery in the middle, videos on the left, design on the right, device and a light or dark website below. Click a part of the gallery to change it or “Try it” as a visitor; undo and redo, keyboard shortcuts, panels you can widen. The block opens it right over the block editor.
- New: a style of its own for a single gallery, besides the design of the whole website.
- New layouts: Shorts wall and compact list. Player with playlist: the list also below the player, and a cinema mode. Grids can open a video large right below its row.
- Videos in the order you choose (newest, oldest, A–Z, most viewed, random); start time per video, subtitles on, start muted; the description below the player and on the cards.
- Smoother playback: soft transitions, a lightbox that grows from the card, an “Up next” card with a countdown, swipe and keyboard in every layout, an endless slider, hover effects “Drift” and “Shine”.
- Follows your cookie banner: Borlabs Cookie, Complianz, Real Cookie Banner, CookieYes, Cookiebot, Usercentrics and Klaro are asked at the moment of the click.
- New tabs: Overview (what needs attention), Videos (every loaded video: search, hide everywhere, make a gallery from a selection) and Settings (refresh interval, defaults for new galleries, editors may edit galleries, export and import). Gallery cards show the real gallery in small.
- No more grey boxes: saving a gallery copies the thumbnails it shows first right away, and the background loads the rest until all are there.
- Pages that show a changed gallery leave the page cache (WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache, W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache, SiteGround Optimizer, Elementor).
- A channel’s @name in the studio or the shortcode now explains how to find the channel ID, instead of “no videos found”.
- Help & status: “Copy diagnostics” for the support forum, help for YouTube’s “Error 153”; a clear message for private playlists, right under the field.
- A studio tab left open overnight keeps saving (it fetches a fresh security token), and a change made just before closing the page is still saved.
- Without WP-Cron, an overdue refresh starts wp-cron.php instead of an own background request.
- Pro: smart galleries, stories, bento, spotlight and testimonial layouts, shelf and search, live streams first, chapters and course mode, “Show more”, end card with a call to action, a free trial. When Pro ends, paid galleries stay as built and a trial falls back to the free version.
2.2.0
- Settings save themselves, with “Undo”; a gallery saves without reloading the page, also with Ctrl+S; deleting a gallery can be undone.
- Saving a gallery no longer waits for YouTube: videos and thumbnails load in the background.
- Channels are entered by their ID; YouTube's web pages are never read. Old /user/ links still work.
- “Used on” is kept up to date page by page instead of searching all posts.
- New switch: remove all data when the plugin is deleted (off by default); multisite aware.
- A slider that moves by itself has a pause button; video titles are headings for screen readers; better contrast.
- New admin look; all names in the code now carry the prefix devenzi_video. Settings, blocks and the shortcode [vsfy_videos] of 2.1 move over by themselves.
2.1.0
- Initial release.
- Guided gallery editor with live preview, design options with four styles, privacy check, help and status page.
- Sources: channel, playlist or your own list of videos; hide single videos or filter by title.
- Layouts: slider, player with playlist, grid, single video; lightbox, ambient glow, next video plays automatically.
- View counts and “New” badge.
- Play button with three colors, four shapes and four triangle styles.
- Local thumbnails and optional notice before playing.
- Block for the block editor.
- Imports settings from “NR Video Slider” and videos from “Video Slider Rich”; their shortcodes keep working.
- Works without WP-Cron: refreshes itself in the background when WP-Cron is disabled.
- If YouTube does not answer when a new gallery is first loaded, it tries again after 5, 15 and 30 minutes instead of waiting an hour.