Turn your YouTube videos into a professional video hub. Build visually in the block editor, or use shortcodes if that's your workflow.
Video Gallery & Playlist for YouTube (YouTube Showcase) is rated 4.9 out of 5 stars across 128 reviews and is featured in
WPBeginner's Best YouTube Video Gallery Plugins roundup. The Visual Block lets you design grids and playlists directly in the Block Editor with a real-time preview in the sidebar — change a setting and see the result instantly, without saving and refreshing.
Whether you're a creator, blogger, or marketer, this plugin displays your YouTube content in responsive, mobile-ready layouts in a few clicks.
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🚀 Key Features
- Visual Block Builder — pick your videos and watch the gallery update live in the sidebar, no save-and-refresh needed
- Optional Setup Assistant — creates ready-to-use gallery and grid pages in one click
- Cinematic Playlists — a large featured player with thumbnail navigation below it
- Responsive Video Grids — 4-column layouts that adjust automatically for mobile and tablet
- Automated Video Pages — every video gets its own SEO-optimized page with WordPress comments enabled
- Lightweight Code — built to keep your page speed high
- Full Customization — set thumbnail quality (16:9 or 4:3) and adjust video URL slugs for your own branding
- Shortcode Support — build galleries with classic shortcodes if you don't use the block editor
4.1.0
- FIXED Security and code quality by improving output escaping and database query handling, session cleanup and switched to WP core's code editor.
4.0.6
- TWEAK Tested and confirmed compatibility with WordPress 7.0.
4.0.5
- FIXED XSS vulnerability for emd_mb_meta function
4.0.4
- FIXED Function call vulnerability in the file deletion AJAX handler.
4.0.3
- FIXED Patched an unrestricted file upload vulnerability.
4.0.2
- FIXED An issue where non-admin users were blocked from wp-admin due to an incorrect wp_die() call in show_optin()
4.0.1
- FIXED YouTube "Error 153 – video player configuration error" by updating embed security and referrer policy.
4.0.0
- NEW Added a Gutenberg block to insert YouTube video galleries, grids, and search forms directly from the block editor.
- NEW Real-time preview within the editor sidebar.
- TWEAK tested with WP 6.9
3.5.4
- FIXED Updated title for trademark
- FIXED Updated internationalization
3.5.3
- FIXED Validate input for emd_form_builder_lite_pagenum function
3.5.2
- FIXED XSS vulnerability for noaccess_msg
- FIXED Validate input for emd_form_builder_lite_pagenum function
- FIXED Vulnerability related to emd_get_widg_pagenum
3.5.1
- TWEAK tested with WP 6.8
- FIXED XSS vulnerability when using custom fields
3.5.0
- FIXED WordPress dashboard accordions issue on setting and glossary pages due to changes in core code on WP 6.7.1
3.4.0
- FIXED Vulnerability on form submit
- FIXED Translation to one textdomain
3.3.6
** Fix CSRF in form settings
3.3.5
3.3.4
3.3.3
- TWEAK tested with WP 5.9.1 and PHP 8
3.3.2
- TWEAK tested with WP 5.8.1
- TWEAK Added ability to set the maximum number of videos to show in multiple sidebar widgets.
- TWEAK Added ability to set pagination support with customization options for multiple sidebar widgets.
3.3.1
3.3.0
- FIXED Pagination bar not showing in mobile devices in the video gallery view.
3.2.9
- FIXED multi-select form component missing scroll bars when the content overflows its fixed height.
3.2.8
- TWEAK fixes and improvements for better performance and compatibility
3.2.7
- TWEAK updates to translation strings and libraries
- NEW Added version numbers to js and CSS files for caching purposes
- TWEAK tested with WP 5.5.1
3.2.6
- NEW Added previous and next buttons for the edit screens of videos
- TWEAK updates and improvements to libraries
3.2.5
- TWEAK updates and improvements to form library
- TWEAK Emd templates
3.2.4
- TWEAK Fix issue related to extensions
3.2.3
- TWEAK Remove unused code and additional hardening for security
3.2.2
- FIXED Paging issue on Video Gallery
- FIXED XSS related issues
3.2.1
- TWEAK Emd form builder upgrade messages
3.2.0
- NEW Added Emd form builder support
- FIXED Session cleanup workflow by creating a custom table to process records.
3.1.1
- TWEAK Misc. library updates for better stability and compatibility.
3.1.0
- NEW Created a new shortcode page which displays all available shortcodes. You can access this page under the plugin settings.
- TWEAK Emd templating system to match modern web standards
3.0.1
- FIXED the Jump from the selected video to the main video frame in Firefox.
3.0.0
- NEW Added a sidebar widget allowing to search videos by title, category or tag.
- NEW Added ability enable or disable any video search field in the plugin settings.
- NEW Added option to show login or register before searching videos - handy feature for private or customer only videos.
- NEW Added option to use captcha in video search submissions in the plugin settings.
- NEW Added option to set No results found and No access messages in the plugin settings.
- TWEAK Improved the emd templating system removing obsolete code.
- TWEAK Updated the third party code included in the plugin.
2.9.7
- TWEAK Misc. library updates for better stability and compatibility.
2.9.6
- TWEAK Fixed the issue related to video thumbnails not displayed correctly in the widgets when video image resolution field is set.
2.9.5
- NEW Demo site - https://ytshowcasecom.emdplugins.com/ - where the latest version of YouTube Showcase Starter edition is installed.
- TWEAK Featured and recent video widget now use Video Image Resolution field to set the video image thumbnail and defaults to medium quality resolution.
- TWEAK Video grid and Video Grid Gallery thumbnails now use Video Image Resolution field to set the video image thumbnail and defaults to medium quality resolution.
2.9.0
- FIXED paging css
- TWEAK library updates
2.8.0
- FIXED widget sidebar is not responding to screen size changes issue
- NEW YouTube Showcase introduction video
2.7.6
- FIXED video gallery paging issue
2.7.5
- TWEAK All gallery pages will show 6 columns on desktop, 4 columns on tablets, 3 columns on phones
- TWEAK Removed ellipsis for long video titles. It displays full titles for Video Grid.
2.7.2
- TWEAK Removed ellipsis for long video titles. It displays full titles
- TWEAK Made all video thumb images full width to cover all available space
2.7.0
- NEW Added custom JavaScript option in plugin settings under Tools tab
- NEW Added container type field in the plugin settings
- FIXED wpautop issue with br tags
- FIXED PHP 7 compatibility
- TWEAK Updated codemirror libraries for custom CSS and JS options in plugin settings page
2.6.0
- NEW Added ability to disable EMD Templating system and switch back to theme based system from plugin settings
- FIX PHP 7 compatability
- TWEAK Minor shortcode page navigation fixes and improvements
2.5.1
- Fixed deleting WordPress category and tags when clicked on “Remove All Data” checkbox under Video Settings > Tools and deleted the plugin from WordPress Plugin page
2.5.0
- NEW Added new templating sytem which allows changing page templates for video, video archive and taxonomy pages from plugin settings
- NEW Added Custom CSS area where one can put in plugin related CSS code specific to their own site
- NEW Ability to hide page navigation links from plugin settings
2.4.0
- NEW Added ability to rename videos slug in the settings
- NEW Added ability to enable/disable plugin Bootstrap css/js files
- Fixed search results issue
2.3.0
- Minor bug fixes and code improvements
2.2.0
- Compatibility with WordPress 4.5 and misc. bug fixes
- Added ability to disable/enable thumbs navigation in mobile devices
2.1.0
- Fixed video audio playing after the second video clicked issue in video gallery view.
2.0.0
- Changed the order of the videos Descending to display the new videos first in the gallery
- Enabled thumb navigation for tablets
- Changed the video displayed per page to 16 for Grid and Thumbs
- Adjusted grid column numbers 6(Large), 4(Medium) and 3(Small) devices
- Enabled page navigation on Video Grid Gallery
- Added title link to video single page in Video Gallery
- Added video title to video grid gallery
1.4.1
- Fixed the video navigation issue when WordPress is installed in subdirectory.
- Fixed setting translation issue
1.4.0
- Fixed the issue related to HTML5 video player not playing by default
- Fixed the issue related to videos not displayed on the gallery (Blank video was showing) when clicked on video thumbnail
1.3.0
- Added ability to enable or disable thumbnail navigation for the screens less than 768px
- Added ability to enable or disable video autoplay
- Removed unnecessary CSS rules
1.2.0
- Added video thumbnail quality selector which may help for the video thumbnail not coming from YouTube issue
- Removed unnecessary css
1.1.0
- Moved responsive arrow head icons closer to the video
- Improved compatibility with the other themes and plugins.
1.0.1
- Cleaned up the code related to Video Grid
- Fixed issue with Video Grid Gallery Navigation
1.0.0